Commentary: The appearance of new medical cosmologies and the re-appearance of sick and healthy men and women: a comment on the merits of social theorizing.

摘要

Published 32 years ago in the British Sociological Association's journal Sociology, Nick Jewson's paper 'The Disappearance of the Sick-Man from Medical Cosmology, 1770-1870'1 is something of a classic. A search using the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge Service reveals that, within this database, the article has some 133 citations and rate of citations have remained consistent over time. Furthermore, the impact is not limited to sociology;