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Volume 16 Issue 1 - 2007

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Editorial
Fran Collyer

The Life-Extension Project: A sociological critique
Alex Dumas, Bryan S Turner

The Impact of Co-Option on Herbalism: A bifurcation in epistemology and practice
Judy Singer, Kath Fisher

Integration and Diversification in Healthcare: Financial performance and implications for Medicare
Jane Jones

Girls' Germs: Sexuality, gender, health and metaphors of contagion
David Plummer, Pol Dominic McCann

Becoming a Smoker: Adapting Becker's model of deviance for adolescent smoking
Patrick Peretti-Watel, François Beck, Stephane Legleye, Jean-Paul Moatti

Attitudes Concerning Euthanasia: Australia at the turn of the 21st Century
Joanna Sikora, Frank Lewins

A New Sociological Imperative: Towards engaging with preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Kellie Brandenburg

Book Reviews

Realworld Evaluation: Working under budget, time, data, and political constraints
Michael Bamberger, Jim Rugh and Linda Mabry
Reviewed by David McDonald

Drugs, Clubs and Young People: Sociological and public health perspectives
Bill Sanders (ed)
Reviewed by David Moore

Breast cancer and the post-surgical body: Recovering the self
Samantha Crompvoets
Reviewed by Catherine Mackenzie

Health sociology: An Australian perspective and Health in Australia: Sociological concepts and issues[3rd Edition]
David Gray and Carol Grbich(ed)
Reviewed by Kevin Dew

Fast cars, cool rides: The accelerating world of youth and their cars
Amy Best
Reviewed by Sarah Hinde



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Expert Patient Policy
Volume 18/2
Deadline: 15th Aug 2008


Ageing, Anti-Ageing and Globalization: Transitions and limits in the governance of ageing
Volume 18/4
Deadline: 20th Feb 2009


Special Issues

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

The Plasticity of Professional Boundaries
Karen Lane


Playing With 'Peng' in Taiji Boxing
Aaron Alan Cross


Symposium on the Sociology of Health and Ageing
Eileen Clark


Representing Gender in Publications for Diabetics
Dorothy H Broom, Geraldine Treacher


Doctor on Campus
Anke Doley, Colin Sibly, Chris Wigg, Peter Crawford, Lindsey Cowper, Colleen Barker, Peter Gale


Becoming a Wise Old Woman
Suzy Gattuso


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