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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(3):633-636; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp181
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2009; all rights reserved.

Commentary: The appearance of new medical cosmologies and the re-appearance of sick and healthy men and women: a comment on the merits of social theorizing

Sarah Nettleton

Department of Sociology, University of York, Heslington, York Y010 5DD, UK. E-mail: sjn2@york.ac.uk

Accepted 29 April 2008

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Published 32 years ago in the British Sociological Association's journal Sociology, Nick Jewson's paper ‘The Disappearance of the Sick-Man from Medical Cosmology, 1770–1870’1 is something of a classic. A search using the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge Service reveals that, within this database, the article has some 133 citations and rate of citations have remained consistent over time. Furthermore, the impact is not limited to sociology; the top six subject areas that return the highest citation scores are ‘history and philosophy of science’ (29.3%); ‘social sciences, biomedical’ (23.3%); ‘public, environmental and occupational health’ (21.1%); ‘sociology’ (20.3%); ‘health care sciences and services’ (12.8%); and ‘medicine, general and internal’ (6.0%).

It is intriguing that this conceptual paper should have such an enduring and broad significance. But herein lies its merit; as the sociologist Bryan Turner notes: ‘Ultimately sociology can better serve the practical problems and needs of patients by formulating sociological . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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