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Throughout the US & elsewhere in the Western world since WWII, there has been a growing interest in medicine. As early as the 1930's, popular accounts of sci'fic development began to interest lay readers in Med care & innovation. The signif involvement of soc & behavioral sci'ts in Med educ & res began a decade ago & has increased rapidly. It has become apparent that the understanding of health & disease requires a holistic frame of reference in which the psychol'al, soc, & cultural aspects of HB are appropriately related to the biological nature of man & the physical environment in which he lives. Emphasis upon the holistic approach to Med sci & upon comprehensive health care has moved medicine to seek the services of soc sci'ts, notably in connection with public health, preventive medicine, & psychiatry. As conceptualization & methodology in the soc sci's have matured, soc sci'ts have increasingly tended to interest themselves in applied fields & have come to grasp the significance of health & medicine as a major focus of organized HB. Med sci, soc sci, & popular interest merge to formulate contemporary approaches & norms in health care. AA.

Throughout the United States and elsewhere in the Western world since World War II, there has been a grow ing interest in medicine. As early as the 1930's, popular accounts of scientific developments began to interest lay readers in medical care and innovation. The significant involvement of social and behavioral scientists in medical education and research began a decade ago and has increased rapidly. It has become apparent that the understanding of health and disease requires a holistic frame of reference in which the psychological, social, and cultural aspects of human behavior are appropriately related to the biological nature of man and the physical environ ment in which he lives. Emphasis upon the holistic approach to medical science and upon comprehensive health care has moved medicine to seek the services of social scientists, notably in connection with public health, preventive medicine, and psychiatry. And, as conceptualization and methodology in the social sciences have matured, social scientists have increasingly tended to interest themselves in applied fields and have come to grasp the significance of health and medicine as a major focus of organized human behavior. Thus, medical science, social science, and popular interest merge to formulate con temporary approaches and norms in health care.—Ed.

Sociology has tackled some of the most formidable problems that confront contemporary society: inequality, homelessness, violence, gender, and many more. Sociologists assert that hypotheses can be formulated and tested against empirical evidence, that faulty viewpoints can be uncovered and discarded, and that plausible theory can be distinguished from mere ideology. This collection was written over a span of forty-four years and is presented in the belief that sociology is a science. In Social Problems, Social Issues, Social Science, James D. Wright presents his research on some of the social issues that have most vexed America: homelessness, addiction, divorce, minimum wage, and gun control, among others. Starting with essays first published in the flagship journal Society, Wright offers readers a foundational look at specific social problems and the methods sociologists have used to study them. He then provides an up-to-date reexamination of each issue, analyzing the changes that have occurred over time and how sociologists have responded to it. This book is both a retrospective on the field and on one scholar?s life and work. Using his own experience in researching and writing about America?s most trenchant social issues, Wright describes the evolution of the methods and theory used by social scientists to understand and, ultimately, to confront America?s most troublesome social problems. -- Publisher description.

The text of an analysis on Burundi presented by Mr. René Lemarchand on September 22, 1988 before the Africa Subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives was published in the 1989 winter number of ISSUE. As noted, more precise research has been published since this date on the Ntega and Marangara events by people who actually went to "revisit" the country, which is not the case of Mr. Lemarchand, since his last visit to Bujumbura was in autumn 1973.