The history of the changing concepts of health and illness: outline of a general model of illness categories / Bryan S. Turner -- Social theorizing about health and illness / David Armstrong -- Classification and process in sociomedical understanding: towards a multilevel view of sociomedical methodology / Robert A. Rubinstein, Susan C. Scrimshaw, and Suzanne E. Morrissey -- The social construction of medicine and the body / Deborah Lupton -- A taxonomy of research concerned with place and health / Ralph Catalano and Kate E. Pickett -- The globalization of health and disease: the health transition and global change / Emily C. Zielinski Gutiérrez and Carl Kendall -- The social causation of health and illness / Johannes Siegrist -- Socioeconomic inequalities in health: integrating individual-, community-, and societal-level theory and research / Stephanie A. Robert and James S. House.

Gender and health / Sandra D. Lane and Donald A. Cibula -- Critical perspectives on health and aging / Carroll L. Estes and Karen W. Linkins -- The social context of the new genetics / Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Mary Boulton -- Cultural variation in the experience of health and illness / Ann McElroy and Mary Ann Jezewski -- Ethnography and network analysis: the study of social context in cultures and societies / Robert T. Trotter, II -- Personal experience of illness / Arthur Kleinman and Don Seeman -- Critical narratives and the study of contemporary doctor-patient relationsihps / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Byron J. Good -- Accounting for disease and distress: morals of the normal and abnormal / Margaret Lock -- Experiencing chronic illness / Kathy Charmaz -- The global emergence of disability / Gary L. Albrecht and Lois M. Verbrugge.

Reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies / Heléna Ragoné and Sharla K. Willis -- Health-care utilization and barriers to health care / Judith D. Kasper -- Concepts and measurement of health status and health-related quality of life / Colleen A. McHorney -- Health behavior: from research to community practice / Thomas R. Prohaska, Karen E. Peters, and Jan S. Warren -- The medical profession: knowledge, power, and autonomy / David Coburn and Evan Willis -- The sociological character of health-care markets / Donald W. Light -- Medical uncertainty revisited / Renée C. Fox -- Alternative health practices and systems / Sarah Cant and Ursula Sharma -- Comparative health systems: emerging convergences and globalization / Linda M. Whiteford and Lois LaCivita Nixon -- The patient's perspective regarding appropriate health care / Angela Coulter and Ray Fitzpatrick.

Consumer and community participation: a reassessment of process, impact, and value / Deena White -- An expanded conceptual framework of equity: implications for assessing health policy / Lu Ann Aday -- Resources and rationing: managing supply and demand in health care / Stephen Harrison and Michael Moran -- Reconfiguring health policy: simple truths, complex solutions / Steven Lewis, Marcel Saulnier, and Marc Renaud.