It is now fashionable (even in the United States) for doctors to talk about social determinants of health. Polls show that access to healthy and affordable food, controlling drug misuse, and cleaning up the environment are seen as more important to people’s health than access to high quality medical care.Groups such as Health Leads train doctors to identify their patients’ social needs and to l...

Many theorists have regarded genealogy as an important technique for social criticism. But it has been unclear how genealogy can go beyond the accomplishments of other, more mundane, critical methods. I propose a new approach to understanding the critical potential of history. I argue that theorists have been misled by the assumption that if a claim is deserving of criticism, it is because the ...

While occupying a relatively brief space in the history of scientific inquiry, many social psychologists have nonetheless recognized the need to integrate the field’s myriad findings into a coherent, meta-theoretical framework. Chester et al. (2012), consistent with the spirit of this movement, have answered this call by utilizing a Life History Theory (LHT) framework to understand the relation...

The history of social cognitive neuroscience (SCN) began with isolated islands of research in Europe and the United States in the 1990s. In the decade between 1995 and 2004 most of the major areas of current SCN research were identified in a series of high profile first studies. This paper reviews the timeline as well as the geography of important moments in the short history of this field. Of ...

Who has played video games? Where have they played them? And how have games helped or hindered social networks and communities? This article answers these historical questions for the birthplace of commercial video games—the United States. Moving from the descriptive to the analytical, it begins with the basic trends and figures: who played, when, where and why, and how changes in technology ha...

HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEDICINE A new course on the History of Public Health and Social Medicine is now being offered at the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, in the spring semester of 1966. The purpose of this course is to trace the genesis and the development of scientific fact and ideas, taking into account intellectual exchanges and influences of a...

editors for at least seven years. A valuable side-product of this concentrated editorial activity has been the stream of theses and articles produced by the team during the period of their labours. The editors properly distinguish their edition as "critical" because, as they point out, "the absence of any Trevisa holograph ... the loss of his latin copy-text, some unresolved cruces and ambiguit...

historical sociology, as a comparative study of social groups, leads to the understanding of the structure of a society, its background and its composition in the past and these serve as the setting for the historical events. it also provides an insight which bridges the gap in the evidence and claims of the historians and contributes to the improvement and promotion of historians' mode of...