Showing papers in "Social Science & Medicine in 1971"

TL;DR: The field of Psycho-social Transitions is seen as a process of “realization” by means of which affectional bonds are severed and old models of the word and the self given up and accounts for resistance to change and depressive reactions to change.

TL;DR: Criteria for hopelessness prone personality and feelings of hopelessness were applied to interview data and the predictions were matched with the pathological reports of cone biopsies and were found to be statistically predictive of cancer and no cancer.

TL;DR: It is suggested that there are at least two types of change in patterned behavior: incremental, that is, cessation of one pattern of behavior with replacement by a new one, and decremental, that are, cessation without replacement.

TL;DR: Values toward various types of physical appearance and handicap were studied using 21 pictures of a child in which everything was held constant except the forms of appearance and Handicap.

TL;DR: It is suggested similar studies be carried out in India and elsewhere and the entire question of the role of indigenous medicine practitioners and their relationship to modern medicine especially in rural areas be subject to critical review.

TL;DR: Age, sex, education, and occupation were found to be related to the prevalence of psychiatric disorder in the respective cultures, but in the Swedish sample, occupational class showed a relationship that is the inverse of that usually seen—the lowest level had also the lowest prevalence of Psychiatric disorder.

TL;DR: The sick role provides a controllable form of deviance which mitigates potentially disruptive conflicts between personality needs and the social system's role demands and serves stabilizing social functions in the family, mental hospital, totalitarian state, penal institution, armed forces and Selective Service System.

TL;DR: Results of factor analyses indicate that the same factors emerge and that the items' factorial composition correspond with few exceptions to the hypothesized pattern within each study area, suggesting that the six attitudes exist in all areas and that they are conceptually equivalent indicators.

TL;DR: Differences in perception of behavior as signs of “mental” illness among eight ethno-religious groups were examined in a study of over two thousand representative New Yorkers, finding the Puerto-Rican group to have the most distinctive distribution.

TL;DR: This paper attempts to draw together and crystallize some of the major problems inherent in past attempts to organize and include the behavioural sciences in the medical curriculum and outline and discuss one possible course in medical sociology utilizing the concept “patient career”.

TL;DR: A survey of the traditional healers in a region of Mysore State in India revealed that there are some common structural features between the indigenous system of medicine in the villages and modern medicine as practiced in India's cities and throughout the West.

TL;DR: This paper will examine the objectives of sample surveys related to health, the difficulties encountered, remedies proposed to deal with shortcomings, and the central conceptual problem of the approach to health and illness.

TL;DR: The background, aims and misconceptions surrounding the National Health Service are looked at and its record in achieving one of its many confessed objectives—that of territorial justice is appraised.

TL;DR: In this article, some proposed socio-political concepts are examined and an analytical framework is suggested as being potentially useful for the comparative analysis of national health care systems.

TL;DR: The author will deal with five forms of doctor-patient interactions in which the doctor's handling of the transfer of information played a key role in establishing feelings of perplexity, confusion and suspicion in the mothers of retarded children.

TL;DR: An analysis of the causes of the changing incidence of premarital sexual intercourse suggests that oral contraception is not a major causal factor for this change.

TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to consider the relevant social factors and to construct a critical perspective for explaining disease as deviance.

TL;DR: Analysis indicated some bias towards the wives of manual workers among puerperal psychotics, and Jamaicans appeared especially prone to puerPeral schizophrenia, and the need for careful social treatment is emphasized.

TL;DR: It is suggested that presenting one's complaints to a nonprofessional relevant other and to a member of the medical profession may be qualitatively different illness phenomenon, the former being more responsive to social-psychological processes and the latter to situational variables as income or family size.