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Acknowledgements | |
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General introduction | |
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Cultural aspects of health, illness and healing | |
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Introduction | |
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Mirage of health | |
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Hippocrates | |
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Feed a cold, starve a fever | |
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What is health? | |
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Illness as metaphor | |
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The problem of the whole-person in holistic medicine | |
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Protecting a vulnerable margin: towards an analysis of how the mouth came to be separated from the body | |
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Hysteria and demonic possession | |
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Cross-cultural psychiatry | |
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Media and mental illness | |
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Public eyes and private genes | |
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Experiencing health, disease and health care | |
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Introduction | |
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Two accounts of mental distress | |
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Being there | |
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The insanity of place | |
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The social impact of childhood asthma | |
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Beyond the disorder: one parent's reflection on genetic counselling | |
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Coping with migraine | |
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Using alternative therapies: marginal medicine and central concerns | |
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The social preservation of mind: the Alzheimer's disease experience | |
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'Some bloody do-gooding cow' | |
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Pride against prejudice: 'lives not worth living' | |
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The stigma of infertility | |
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Identity dilemmas of chronically ill men | |
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Costs of treating AIDS in Malawi and America | |
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Influences on health and disease | |
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Introduction | |
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Health: 1844 | |
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The health and wealth of nations | |
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Agriculture's two-edged sword | |
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Climate and health | |
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Deaths under 50 | |
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Prevention is better... | |
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Malingering | |
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Causes of declining life expectancy in Russia | |
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The psychosocial causes of illness | |
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Entitlement and deprivation | |
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Why must I be a teenager at all? | |
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Good gene, bad gene | |
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Biodemographic trajectories of longevity | |
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A new division of the life course | |
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The role of medicine | |
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Introduction | |
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The medical contribution | |
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The importance of social intervention in Britain's mortality decline c. 1850-1914: a re-interpretation of the role of public health | |
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Effectiveness and efficiency | |
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Medicine matters after all | |
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Ethical dilemmas in evaluation | |
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The global eradication of smallpox | |
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The epidemics of modern medicine | |
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The mode of state intervention in the health sector | |
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The social context of health care | |
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Introduction | |
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Health inequalities and the health of the poor: what do we know? what can we do? | |
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Ageism in cardiology | |
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Should smokers be offered coronary bypass surgery? | |
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Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't | |
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Pubic participation in the evaluation of health care | |
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Health technology and knowledge | |
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Improving NHS performance: human behaviour and health policy | |
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Health sector reform: lessons from China | |
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The evolution of the health-care systems in the United States and the United Kingdom: similarities and differences | |
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The role of the hospital in a changing environment | |
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Health work | |
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Introduction | |
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The carer at home | |
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'We didn't want him to die on his own'--nurses' accounts of nursing dying patients | |
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Professionalism and the conundrum of care | |
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Truth, trust and paternalism | |
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Doctor knows best | |
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Normal rubbish: deviant patients in casualty departments | |
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Food-work: maids in a hospital kitchen | |
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Professions allied to medicine: continuity and change in a complex workforce | |
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The village health worker: lackey or liberator? | |
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Prospects and speculations | |
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Introduction | |
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The new globalization, food and health | |
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Global AIDS epidemic: time to turn the tide | |
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Doctor in the house: the Internet as a source of lay health knowledge and the challenge to expertise | |
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Ageing and medicine | |
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Brave new world II | |
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Exits | |
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The shadow of genetic injustice | |
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The evolution of Utopia | |
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Spawn of Satan? | |
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The flesh | |
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Enough already! The pervasiveness of warnings in everyday life | |
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Name index | |
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Subject index | |