Contents: Introduction, Ian Shaw and Kaisa Kauppinen; The work of pathologists: visualization of disease and control of uncertainty, Elianne Riska; Constructing risk: rumour as a resource for medical sociology, Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward; Lay understandings of health: a qualitative study, Sara O'Sullivan and Anne Stakelum; Self-rated health in Moscow and Helsinki, Hannele Palosuo; Pragmatism, globalism and culturalism: health pluralism of Chinese people in Britain, Ruby C.M Chau and Sam W.K.Yu; Shifting views of depression: analysing people's accounts of their suffering, Ilka Kangas; The construction of lay resistance to vaccination, Pru Hobson-West; Pain, loss and collective action: health consumer groups and the policy process, Judith Allsop, Kathryn Jones and Rob Baggott; The medicalization of unhappiness? The management of mental distress in primary care, Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward; Index.