Aim: To complement existing stakeholder surveys by exploring addiction researchers’ views on the implications of brain-based explanations and responsibilities addicted persons. Methods: A total 190 researchers from 29 countries (13.2%) participated in a LimeSurvey. Their perspectives were explored qualitatively using open-ended questions. In addition, respondents could indicate their responsibi...

This article examines the historical construction of depression over about a hundred years, employing social life methods as an explanatory framework. Specifically, it considers how emerging methodologies in measurement psychological constructs contributed to changes epistemological approaches mental illness and created conditions possibility for major shifts depression. While was once seen fea...

AIM The aim of this work was to determine the rate incisional hernia (IH) repair and risk factors for IH after laparotomy. METHOD This population-based study used data extracted from French Programme de Medicalisation des Systemes d'Informations (PMSI) database. All patients who had undergone a laparotomy in 2010, their hospital visits 2010 2015 underwent first 2013 were included. Previously id...

This study seeks to explore addicts’ experiences of recovery from drug addiction in the context of contemporary discourses surrounding the topic. It takes as its departure point the idea that subjective psychological realities are set against a socio-cultural backdrop and are thus mediated by language. Of particular significance is therefore the role of discourse in the perception and experienc...

OBJECTIVES It is well known that sex differences in analgesic prescription are not merely the logical result of greater prevalence of pain in women, since this therapeutic variability is related to factors such as educational level or social class. This study aims to analyse the relationship between analgesic prescription and gender development in different regions of Spain. METHODS Cross-sec...

Western anthropology, based on the belief of dualism of body and mind, has unconsciously but profoundly influenced the basic approach to medicine for centuries. This separation of body and mind has become greater since the day of Decartes. Medical care has thus focused more on disease than illness, pain rather than suffering. New medical technologies bring new hopes of cure, but fail to allevia...

OBJECTIVES To review the literature and provide an evidence based framework for patient centred information and advice on whiplash associated disorders. METHODS A systematic literature search was conducted, which included both clinical and non-clinical articles to encompass the wide range of patients' informational needs. From the studies and previous reviews retrieved, 163 were selected for ...

The Aschheim-Zondek reaction is generally regarded as the first reliable hormone test for pregnancy and as a major product of the 'heroic age' of reproductive endocrinology. Invented in Berlin in the late 1920s, by the mid 1930s a diagnostic laboratory in Edinburgh was performing thousands of tests every year for doctors around Britain. In her classic history of antenatal care, sociologist Ann ...