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Volume 16 Issue 3-4 - 2007

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212 Editorial
Fran Collyer

214 Explaining the growth of complementary and alternative medicine
Ian Coulter, Evan Willis

226 Is social capital good for everyone?: The case of same-sex attracted women in rural South Australian communities
Jane Edwards, Brian Cheers

237 The impact of moral suasion on internet HIV/AIDS support groups: Evidence from a discussion of seropositivity disclosure ethics
David Rier

248 A sociological approach to workforce shortages: Findings of a qualitative study in Australian hospitals
Fran Collyer

263 Delivering a patient-focused health service: The views of physicians in Barbados
Clare Xanthos

279 Health inequalities in Argentina: Patterns, contradictions and implications
Fernando De Maio

292 Women's experiences of combining eldercare and paid work in the Scottish food retail sector
Laura Airey, Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Linda McKie

306 Community development interventions to improve Aboriginal health: Building an evidence base
Danielle Campbell, Leisa McArthy, Priscilla Pyett

316 ‘Stopping sniffing is our responsibility’: Community ownership of a petrol-sniffing program in Arnhem Land
Richard Chenhall, Kate Senior

328 Components of perceived stigma and perceptions of well-being among university students with and without disability experience
Sara Green

Book Reviews

341 New Labour’s State of Health: Political Economy, Public Policy and the NHS
Calum Paton
Reviewed by Angela Glasner

342 The Political Economy of Narcotics: Production, Consumption, and Global
Julia Buxton
Reviewed by Jocelyn Grace

344 Safety, Culture and Risk: The Organisational Causes of Disasters
Andrew Hopkins
Reviewed by Bruce Hocking

345 Fed Up! Winning the War Against Childhood Obesity
Susan Okie
Reviewed by Lesley King

346 The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society
Kevin White
Reviewed by Emily Mauldon

348 Health Policy and Politics: Networks, Ideas and Power
Jenny Lewis
Reviewed by Gwendolyn Gray

349 Solving the Health Care Problem. How Other Nations Succeeded and Why the United States Has Not
Pamela Behan
Reviewed by Peter Woodley

351 Living With Drugs
Michael Gossop
Reviewed by Alison Ritter

352 Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care
Jeanne Daly
Reviewed by Steffan Timmermans

354 Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars
Amy Best
Reviewed by Sarah Hinde

355 Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: The Millennium Survey
Christina Pantazis, David Gordon and Ruth Levitas (eds)
Reviewed by Monica Åberg Yngwe

357 Leading Health Care Organizations
Sue Dopson and Annabelle Mark (eds)
Reviewed by Beverly Sibthorpe

358 Health Informatics: A Socio-Technical Perspective
Sue Whetton
Reviewed by Chris Kelman

360 Health Social Science: A Transdisciplinary and Complexity Perspective
Nick Higginbotham, Glenn Albrecht and Linda Connor
Reviewed by Carol F Grbich

361 Second Opinion. An Introduction to Health Sociology (3rd edn)
John Germov (ed)
Reviewed by Timothy Marjoribanks

362 What Works in Tackling Health Inequalities? Pathways, Policies and Practice
Sheena Asthana and Joyce Halliday
Reviewed by Lareen Newman

363 Unfiltered: Conflicts Over Tobacco Policy and Public Health
Eric Feldman and Ronald Bayer (eds)
Reviewed by Judith Peppard

365 Gut Feelings: Chronic Illness and the Search for Healing
Catherine Garrett
Reviewed by Jane Shoebridge

366 Identifying Hyperactive Children: The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior
Peter Conrad
Reviewed by Kevin White

368 Community Research in Environmental Health: Studies in Science, Advocacy
Doug Brugge and H Patricia Hynes (eds)
Reviewed by Carolyn Whitzman



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