Advances in medical sociology : a research annual
Part 1 New perspectives on the doctor-patient relationship: patient-centred medicine - some sociological observations on its constitution, penetration, and cultural assonance, David Silverman, Michael Bloor physicians' self-referent communication as management of uncertainty along the illness trajectory, Monica Hardesty regressive intervention - the discourse of medicine during terminal encounters, Jeffrey M. Clair universal entitledness for health care and its implications on the doctor-patient relationship - a new perspective on medical care, Zeev Ben-Sira. Part 2 The subjective experience of illness: age, chronic pain, and subjective assessment of health, Ellen L. Idler, Ronald J. Angel normative beliefs of social scientists regarding the psychosocial and environmental factors that influence health behaviour change related to smoking, Mary Beth Love, Quint C. Thurman, et al. Part 3 Moral dimensions in medicine: life events and their effects on suicide - a test among physicians, Roger L. Brown moral evaluation in medical research, Arnold Arluke. Part contents.