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Volume 15 Issue 2 - 2006

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Editorial
Fran Collyer, Toni Schofield

The Interaction of Gender and Class in Nursing: Appropriating Bourdieu and adding Butler
Kate Huppatz

'The best friend Medicare ever had'?: Policy narratives and changes in Coalition health policy
Amanda Elliot

Looking Forward, Looking Back: The narrative of testing positive to Huntington's Disease
Rose Leontini

Visibilising Clinical Work: Video ethnography in the contemporary hospital
Rick Iedema, Debbie Long, Rowena Forsyth

About the Evaluation of Computerised Health Care Services: Some critical points
Luc Bonneville

Registered Nurses' Understanding of Truth-Telling as Practiced in the Nursing-Home: An Australian perspective
Anthony G Tuckett

Civic Engagement, Gender and Self-Rated Health in Poor Communities: Evidence from Jordan's refugee camps
Marwan Khawaja, Mylene Tewtel-Salem, Maya Obeid, Matilda Saliba

Suicide Prevention and Social Capital: A Samoan perspective
Rochelle R Stewart-Withers, Anthony (Tony) P O'Brien

Permanent Residents in Caravan Parks, Managers and the Persistence of the Social
Janice Newton

Book Reviews

Counting, Health and Identity: a History of Aboriginal Health and Demography in Western Australia and Queensland 1900-1940
Gordon Briscoe
Reviewed by Maggie Walter

Key Concepts in Medical Sociology
Jonathan Gabe, Mike Bury and Mary Ann Elston (eds)
Reviewed by Margaret Alston, Maria Zadoroznyj

A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite (2nd edn)
John Germov and Lauren Williams (eds)
Reviewed by Megan Warin, Paula M Barrett

Social Work: Critical Theory and Practice
Jan Fook
Reviewed by Margaret Alston, Phil Harington

Qualitative Research Methods (2nd edn)
Pranee Liamputtong and Doug Ezzy
Reviewed by Jane Edwards



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Ageing, Anti-Ageing and Globalization: Transitions and limits in the governance of ageing
Vol 18/4, 1st Dec 2009


Expert Patient Policy
Vol 18/2, 1st Jun 2009


Social Determinants of Child Health and Wellbeing
Vol 18/1, 1st Mar 2009


Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenges for Biomedicine?
Vol 17/4, 1st Dec 2008


Community, Family, Citizenship and the Health of LGBTIQ People
Vol 17/3, 1st Oct 2008


Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives
Vol 17/2, 1st Aug 2008


Death, Dying and Loss in the 21st Century
Vol 16/5, 1st Dec 2007


Social Equity and Health
Vol 16/2, 1st Jun 2007


Medical Dominance Revisited
Vol 15/5, 1st Dec 2006


Childbirth, Politics & the Culture of Risk
Vol 15/4, 1st Oct 2006


Revisiting Sexualities and Health
Vol 15/3, 1st Aug 2006


Closing Asylums for the Mentally Ill: Social Consequences
Vol 14/3, 1st Dec 2005


Workplace Health: The Injuries of Neoliberalism
Vol 14/1, 1st Aug 2005


Symposium on Rural Health: Patients and Practitioners
Vol 13/2, 1st Dec 2004


Symposium on Women's Health
Vol 13/1, 1st Sep 2004


Symposium on Indigenous Health and the Contribution of Sociology
Vol 10/2, 1st Nov 2001


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Selected Articles

Symposium on Women's Health
Lynne Hunt, Beverley McNamara


'Heroes and Fairy Wrens'
Angela Durey


The Demise of the Murray River
Eileen Willis, Meryl Pearce, Tom Jenkin


The Evolution of Workers' Compensation Policy in Australia
Kevin Purse


Left Out
Miriam Stewart, Linda Reutter, Edward Makwarimba, Gerry Veenstra, Rhonda Love, Dennis Raphael


Deinstitutionalisation: an unrealised desire
Janice Chesters


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