The Xth international conference on the social sciences and medicine

Sot Scz Med Vol 24 No 8, p I, 1987 Pcrgamon Journals Ltd Pnnted rn Great Bntain

ANNOUNCEMENT THE Xth INTERNATIONAL ON THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

CONFERENCE AND MEDICINE

will be held at Hotel Terramar, Sl tges, Spam 26-30 October 1987 The themes on this occasion ~111be AIDS as a social phenomenon Cultural

issues m maternal

Developments

and child health

m the study of ‘stress’ and disease

Defining the legitimate boundanes Health care mstltutlons

and tradltlons

The impact and mtegratlon Community

of epldemlology

mvolvement

and related social sciences

m Muslim cultures

of behavloural

sciences m the education

m health pohcy, soclo-structural

and dynamic aspects of health behefs

The economics of essential drug programmes The phllosophlcal

basis of medical ethics

The pohtlcal abuse of medicine International

health agencies, their nature, strengths and weaknesses

Problems m the assessment of altematlve The role of soclo-behavloural Reproductive

Social and psychological Technical mnovatlon Theoretical

medlcme

sclentlsts m health care practice

trends and the emergence of moral panic

Medical ethics m the pnmary

care setting

care before and durmg hospltahzatlon

assessment, dlffuslon and transfer

tensions m blopsychosoclal

models of health care

The vlablhty of the concept of a pnmary

health care team

When 1s a data set complete’) For further details and apphcatlon

forms wnte to

Dr P J M M&wan Glengarden Ballater Aberdeenshlre AB3 5UB Scotland UK I

of health care professionals