Emotions lie at the juncture between mind and body, culture and biology and are crucial to our survival by their ‘signal function‘ in relation to danger. Yet despite their cultural significance, and the obvious implications for the study of health and illness in particular, social science research in this area has remained predominantly under the psychological rubric until very recently. Echoin...

Observations are drawn from field experience to explicate the role of the medical sociologist within geriatric clinical practice—a case presentation of a sociology "with" medicine. A sociology "with" medicine is presented as promoting the institutionalization of medical sociology as a special field within, yet independent of, medicine. The aim is to promote initiatives which generate and lest s...

Theories of practice and public health: understanding (un)healthy practices Stanley Blue, Elizabeth Shove, Chris Carmona & Michael P. Kelly a School of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK b DEMAND Centre/Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK c Centre for Public Health, NICE and Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Universit...

Jochen Hardt, Sonja Schultz, Carola Xander, Gerhild Becker, Malgorzata Dragan Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Email: [email protected]...

Observations are drawn from field experience to explicate the role of the medical sociologist within geriatric clinical practice—a case presentation of a sociology "with" medicine. A sociology "with" medicine is presented as promoting the institutionalization of medical sociology as a special field within, yet independent of, medicine. The aim is to promote initiatives which generate and lest s...

OBJECTIVE Advances in nutrition, sanitation, water supply, technology and drugs have managed to add years to life. However, with the continuing increase in the non-communicable diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that disabilities have eroded nine years from the healthy quality of life of Jamaicans. The current study aims to provide factors that will explain how to attain 'go...