CONTENTS:
PART ONE: THEORY AND IDEOLOGY The Past, the Present and the Future - Roy Porter Images of Health - Robin Downie and Jane Macnaughton From Clinical Gaze to Regime of Total Health - David Armstrong The Limitations of Evidence - Douglas Black Postmodern Illness - David Morris Ivan Illich and the Pursuit of Health - John P Bunker PART TWO: SOCIAL PATTERNS OF HEALTH A Social View of Health and Disease - Michael Marmot Social Status, Inequality and Health - Richard G Wilkinson Economics and Equity in Distribution of Scarce Health Care Resources - Stephen Morris The Politics of Women's Health - Lesley Doyal Setting a Global Agenda PART THREE: PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES Health Public Policy - Fran Baum Rethinking Environment and Health - Anthony J McMichael Globalization of International Health - Gill Walt Health Impact Assessment - Alex Scott-Samuel Young People, Transport and Environment Risk - Linda Jones and Adrian Davis Perceptions and Responses The Health and Social Impact of

Participation in the Arts - Francois Matarasso Prevention May Be More Expensive than Cure - Janet A Butler Is Research into Ethnicity and Health Racist, Unsound, or Important Science? - Raj Bhopal PART FOUR: THE HUMAN SIDE OF HEALTH My Body Is My Art - Kathy Davis User Involvement and

Participation in the NHS - Stephen Pattison A Personal Perspective Quality Comes Home - Donald M Berwick Masculinity and the Redundant Male - Sarah Payne Explaining the Increasing Incarceration of Young Men Social Economic and Political Context of Parenting - Julie Taylor, Nick Spencer and Norma Baldwin Communicating the Implications of Genetic Disease - Aamra R Darr The Physiology of Stressful Life Experiences - Gonneke Willemsen and Cathy Lloyd PART FIVE: CARING AND CURING Understanding Chronic Illness - Moyra Sidell Caring, Curing and Coping - Christine Webb Sexuality, the Body and Nursing - Jocelyn Lawler Swimming in the Sea of Ethics and Values - Stephen Pattison and Tom Heller Stories and Childbirth - Mavis J Kirkham Research in Holistic Medicine - Mike Fitter The Use of Medicines Bought in Pharmacies and Other Retail Outlets - Julia Johnson and Bill Bytheway Private Medicine - Charlotte Humphrey and Jill Russell PART SIX: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Pharmacogenomics - Wolfgang Sadee Towards the Millennium of Cybermedicine - Gunther Eysenbach, Eun Ryoung Sa and Thomas L Diepgen Working Whole Systems - Julian Pratt, Pat Gordon and Diane Plampling Future Health Scenarios and Public Policy - Michael Peckham