This paper takes a critical look at progress and prospects regarding the sociology of
pharmaceuticals over the years. Key themes examined include: (i) medicalisation and …

Energy and the environment are two of the most important issues this century. More than 80
% of our energy comes from the combustion of fossil fuels, which will still remain the …

Background Primary care provision is important in the delivery of health care but many
countries face primary care workforce challenges. Increasing demand, enlarged workloads, and …

Drawing on insights from both medical sociology and science and technology studies this
article provides a critical analysis of the nature and status of pharmaceuticalisation in terms of …

Since the late 1990s, the term ‘partnership’ has increasingly been inserted into the literature
and rhetoric of the UK health-care system. In this paper, the assumptions and implications …

Most of these challenges have long histories; some are new-for example, David Kelleher's
suggestion that while self help groups organised around specific chronic diseases are largely …

Using the ARGUS detector at the DORIS II storage ring we have searched in three different
ways for B 0 -B 0 mixing in ϒ (4S) decays. One explicitly mixed event, a decay ϒ (4S)→B 0 B …

Using the ARGUS detector at the e + e − storage ring DORIS II at DESY, we searched for b→u
transitions in exclusive hadronic B meson decays. A systematic analysis of B decays into …

This paper finds strong empirical support of a positive, although quite lagged, relationship
between rapid credit growth and loan losses. Moreover, it contains empirical evidence of more …

From a socio-cultural standpoint, the concept of otherness is central to explaining the way
risk is associated with certain social groups rather than others. In the mental health field, …