M Harvey Brenner - Assessing Contributions/H

AAAS Selected Symposia Series

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Edited by
M. Harvey Brenner , Anne Mooney
and Thomas J. Nagy

First published 1980 by Westview Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Assessing the contributions of the social sciences to health.
(AAAS selected symposium; 26)
Bibliography: p.
1. Social medicine--Congresses. 2. Social medicine--Methodology-
Congresses. 3. Social sciences--Congresses. I. Brenner, Meyer Harvey,
1939- II. Mooney, Anne. III. Nagy, Thomas J. IV. Series: American
Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS selected symposium; 26.
RA418.A77 362.1 79-24615

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01770-5 (hbk)

The authors of this book provide a systematic, integrated review and comparison of the contributions of sociology, political science, economics, demography, anthropology, history of science and medicine, psychiatry, and psychology to a number of health-related fields, including epidemiology, health services research, and health policy studies. The book reflects the authors' attitude that multidisciplinary research efforts must be carried out in order to obtain a thorough understanding of the relationship of social science knowledge to health problems.

The AAAS Selected Symposia Series was begun in 1977 to provide a means for more permanently recording and more widely disseminating some of the valuable material which is discussed at the AAAS Annual National Meetings. The volumes in this Series are based on symposia held at the Meetings which address topics of current and continuing significance, both within and among the sciences, and in the areas in which science and technology impact on public policy. The Series format is designed to provide for rapid dissemination of information, so the papers are not typeset but are reproduced directly from the camera-copy submitted by the authors, without copy editing. The papers are organized and edited by the symposium arrangers who then become the editors of the various volumes. Most papers published in this Series are original contributions which have not been previously published, although in some cases additional papers from other sources have been added by an editor to provide a more comprehensive view of a particular topic. Symposia may be reports of new research or reviews of established work, particularly work of an interdisciplinary nature, since the AAAS Annual Meetings typically embrace the full range of the sciences and their societal implications.

WILLIAM D. CAREY
Executive Officer
American Association for
the Advancement of Science

M. Harvey Brenner., associate professor in the Division of Operations Research and the department of Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, specializes in the sociology of medicine and psychiatry. He has published articles on trends in alcohol consumption and cirrhosis mortality, and on correlations between economic changes and heart disease mortality and fetal, infant, and maternal mortality. He is the author of Mental Illness and the Economy (Harvard University Press, 1973) and Estimating the Social Costs of National Economic Policy: Implications for Mental and Physical Health and Criminal Aggression (Report for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976).

Anne Mooney, assistant professor at the University of Delaware College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy and department of Sociology, is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the division of Operations Research at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health . Her work focuses on social epidemiology, urbanization and health, and health indices, and she is a member of the Jefferson Center for the Study of Alcoholism, Jefferson Medical College . She has published articles on measuring health levels for community health planning and on epidemiology of alcoholism and alcohol abuse, and is coeditor of Health Goals and Health Indicators: Policy, Planning and Evaluation (with J. Elinson and A. Seigmann; Westview/AAAS, 1977).

Thomas J. Nagy, a postdoctoral fellow in the Operations Research division of Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, is studying the effects of the economy on social and medical pathology and on measurement of intervention effects. He was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California-Berkeley and has published articles on evaluation, replication and the economy and on psychopharmacology and criminality. He is coauthor of Predictive Sentencing: An Empirical Evaluation (with L. H. Whinery et at.; Lexington, 1976).

Mary L. Durham, assistant research sociologist in the department of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles is a specialist in the field of medical sociology. She is the author of several articles on neighborhood health centers.

Nancie L. Gonzalez is vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland College Park. A cultural anthropologist by training she has done field work in Guatemala, Dominican Republic, and the Southwestern United States, is past president of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and is a council member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is the editor of Social and Technological Management in Dry Lands: Past and Present, Indigenous and Imposed (AAAS Selected Symposium No. 10, Westview, 1978) and the author of numerous articles on the anthropology of health and disease.

James R. Greenley, associate professor in the department of Psychiatry and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , is a medical sociologist. He has published articles on social selection processes leading to psychiatric care, user satisfaction with health services, and organizational factors affecting access to services.

Nathan Keyfitz is Andelot Professor of Sociology and demography and chairman of the department of Sociology at Harvard University . A member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society , the Royal Society of Canada , and the American Statistical Association , and a former president of the Population Association of America. He is editor of Theoretical Population Biology, and his many publications include Applied Mathematical Demography (Wiley, 1977) and Causes of Death: Life Tables for National Populations (with S. H. Preston and R. Schoen; Seminar Press, 1972).