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Volume 15 Issue 1 - 2006

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3 Editorial
Fran Collyer, Toni Schofield

5 Health Lifestyle Theory in an Asian Context
William C Cockerham

16 The Privatisation of Professional Knowledge in the Public Health Care Sector in China
Yang Jingqing

29 'Merging' the Aboriginal Population: Welfare, justice, power and the separation of Aboriginal children in Victoria
David McCallum

38 Is it Consumer or Community Participation?: Examining the links between 'community' and 'participation'
Judy Taylor, David Wilkinson, Brian Cheers

48 Opening up Pathways: Reconsidering longitudinal health research
Mike Lloyd

59 Geography and Credentialism: Assessment and accreditation of overseas-trained doctors
Dimitria Groutsis

71 Struggling to Care: Nurses' perceptions of caring for obese patients in an Australian bariatric ward
Carol A Jeffrey, Simon Kitto

84 DNA Paternity Tests: A comparative analysis of the US and Australia
Michael Gilding

96 Re-Claiming or Re-Shaping Fatherhood
Christine Everingham, Tarquin Bowers

104 'It's much easier to get help for the baby': Women, postpartum health and maternal and child health care groups
Kay Souter

Book Reviews

112 Abortion
Belinda Bennett (ed)
Reviewed by Sharyn Roach Anleu

113 Health Care and Notions of Risk
Richard C Clark
Reviewed by Michael D Mehta

115 Health Policy in Australia
Heather Gardner and Simon Barraclough (eds)
Reviewed by Anna Donald

116 Genetics and Gene Therapy & Biotechnological Inventions: Moral Restraints and Patent Law
Sheila AM McLean (ed)
Reviewed by Peter Glasner

116 Biotechnological Inventions: Moral Restraints and Patent Law
Oliver Mills
Reviewed by Peter Glasner

117 Critical Perspectives on Health
Stephen Kermode
Reviewed by Meei-Ling Gau

118 Social Work and the Third Way: Tough Love as Social Policy
Bill Jordan with Charlie Jordan
Reviewed by Liz Beddoe





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