Bøger i Life Course Studies serien

This work on concerns arising from contemporary medicine, looks at the careers of a number of general physicians of 70 years ago who have become today's scientific specialists, and asks how they have responded to change, and what their hopes are regarding the profession's current directions.

In ""Dolor y Alegria"", 15 mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers in the Mexican City of Cuernavaca speak about the dramatic effects that urbanisation and rapid social change have had on their lives. Sarah LeVine combines these autobiographical vignettes with ethnographical material.