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Volume 17 Issue 1 - 2008

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3 Editorial
Fran Collyer

4 Biological Psychiatry and Changing Ideas About ‘Mental Health Prevention’ in Australian Psychiatry: Risk and individualism
Julie Henderson

18 The Symbolic Power of ‘Healthy Lifestyles'
Peter Korp

27 Global Challenges, Global Solutions?: A cross-national comparison of primary health care in Britain, Norway and the Czech Republic
Olaug S Lian

41 Workers Compensation in Western Australia: The shifting landscape of workers’ rights
Rob Guthrie, Angela Barns

53 Doctor on Campus: A general practice initiative for detection and early intervention of mental health problems in a rural Australian secondary school
Anke Doley, Colin Sibly, Chris Wigg, Peter Crawford, Lindsey Cowper, Colleen Barker, Peter Gale

64 Modernity’s Paradox and the Structural Determinants of Child Health and Well-being
Jianghong Li, Anne McMurray, Fiona Stanley

78 Left Out: Perspectives on social exclusion and inclusion across income groups
Miriam Stewart, Linda Reutter, Edward Makwarimba, Gerry Veenstra, Rhonda Love, Dennis Raphael

95 The Socioeconomic Impact of Antiretroviral Treatment on Individuals in Soweto, South Africa
Varsha Chhagan, John Luiz, Lerato Mohapi, James McIntyre, Neil Martinson

Book Reviews

107 Governing Global Health: Challenge, Response, Innovation
Andrew Cooper, John Kirton and Ted Schrecker
Reviewed by David Legge

109 Indigenous Families: Special issue of Family Matters journal
Matthew Gray and Ellen Fish (eds)
Reviewed by Ross Bailie

111 Making Sense of Research: An Introduction for Health and Social Care Practitioners
Gil Hek and Pam Moule
Reviewed by Julie Henderson

112 Communicating in the Health and Social Sciences
Joy Higgs, Ann Sefton, Annette Street, Lindy McAllister and Iain Hay (eds)
Reviewed by Michelle Lisa Bellon

114 The Worry Busters Program: An Anxiety Intervention for Primary Aged Children
Marilyn Campbell (author), Melissa Bates (illustrations)
Reviewed by Kathy Griffiths

116 The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders
Peter Conrad
Reviewed by Susie Scott

117 Sociology and Medicine: Selected Essays of PM Strong
Anne Murcott (ed)
Reviewed by Susie Scott

119 Assisted Dying: Reflections on the Need for Law Reform
Sheila McLean
Reviewed by Romaine Rutnam



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Volume 18/2
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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

Constructing menopause knowledge through socio-material practices
Marilys Guillemin


Memory-work: A critique
Glenda Koutroulis


The Socioeconomic Impact of Antiretroviral Treatment on Individuals in Soweto, South Africa
Varsha Chhagan, John Luiz, Lerato Mohapi, James McIntyre, Neil Martinson


The Mismanagement of Dying
Beverley McNamara, Lorna Rosenwax


Becoming a Smoker
Patrick Peretti-Watel, François Beck, Stephane Legleye, Jean-Paul Moatti


The Evolution of Workers' Compensation Policy in Australia
Kevin Purse


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