Embarking on New Courses of Study

Having spent several years at work learning the ropes, adjusting, and becoming familiar with, and to, other staff members, I was ready for a substantial change in my pursuit of expertise in the sociology of health. The prospective study of psychosocial and medical variables affecting pregnancy described in the last chapter had been carried out rigorously under my close supervision: design, preparation of instruments, data collection, coding, statistical analysis, and interpretation. We discovered that among the women who participated in the study resources interacted significantly with biomedical risk;