Conceptualizing illness and disability - the minority group model of disability - implciations for medical sociology, Harlan Hahn; controlling the population - views of medicine and mothers, Kitty S. Felker; social policy, illness and disability; from local to global - resolving uncertainty about the safety of DES in menopause, Susan E. Bell; the health insurance work disincentive for persons with disabilities, Thomas J. Burns et al; effects of policy experiments in long term care - some empirical findings from the Netherlands, Jan Coolen; homeless men and HIV - barriers to adopting safer practices, Stephanie Wilson Hartwell; the experience of illness and disability; gender differences and adjustment to cancer, Betsy L. Fife; life quality as a function of ageing with a chronic illness - differential assessment by older blacks and older whites, Nancy G. Kutner and Donna Brogan; employment among young persons with spinal cord injury - work tracjectories, resources and barriers, Karen Yoshida; caring for persons with illnesses and disabilities - mothers of children with disabilities and the construction of expertise, Parnel Wickham-Searl; transitions in caregiving status - factors affecting participation over time, Mark Tausig.
