abstract: 'The present article reviews, in relation to quantitative work on the

  social structure, papers published in Sociology of Health and Illness

  during its first 25 years. Each issue published during the years

  1979-2002 has been examined; and quantitative papers, relating to

  various aspects of the social structure, have been identified. Such

  papers are found to have formed a minor but substantively significant

  theme within the Journal. These contributions situate the journal

  between sociology and social epidemiology. Articles in the Journal, for

  example, have been part of sociological debates about the measurement of

  social class, and of social epidemiological debates about the

  relationship between income distribution and population health. The

  contribution of Sociology of Health and Illness to a number of such

  debates is reviewed. The article concludes that the present situation,

  in particular the intellectual crisis in social epidemiology and social

  science investment in large data sets, gives the Journal the chance to

  build on this distinguished tradition by encouraging, through its

  publication policy, the further development of quantitative medical

  sociology.'
affiliation: 'Blane, D (Corresponding Author), Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol
  \& Med, Dept Social Sci \& Med, St Dunstans Rd, London W6 8RP, England.

  Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol \& Med, Dept Social Sci \& Med, London W6
  8RP, England.'
author: Blane, D
author_list:
- family: Blane
  given: D
da: '2023-09-28'
files: []
issn: 0141-9889
journal: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH \& ILLNESS
keywords: 'measurement of social class; income distribution; socio-geography;

  ethnicity; domestic labour; unemployment; health inequalities;

  lifecourse'
keywords-plus: 'SOCIOECONOMIC MORTALITY DIFFERENTIALS; SOCIAL-CLASS DIFFERENCES; HEALTH

  INEQUALITIES; STRUCTURAL FACTORS; LIFETIME EXPOSURE; PAID EMPLOYMENT;

  CAMBRIDGE-SCALE; ILL-HEALTH; EXPLANATIONS; INCOME'
language: English
number: SI
number-of-cited-references: '73'
pages: 115-130
papis_id: 68a297bbe22500132862948a1c06e7e1
ref: Blane2003usequantitative
times-cited: '5'
title: The use of quantitative medical sociology
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000182983200008
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '25'
web-of-science-categories: 'Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health; Social Sciences,

  Biomedical; Sociology'
year: '2003'