March 2002 Volume 10 Number 1 ISSN 0961-7671

ORIGINAL PAPERS
The roles of informal carers in the management of medication for older care-recipients [more]
S. A. Francis, F. Smith, N. Gray and J. Graffy

Non-dispensing of NHS prescriptions in community pharmacies [more]
E. I. Schafheutle, K. Hassell, E. M. Seston and P. R. Noyce

The role of community pharmacists and medicines counter assistants in health promotion: reflections from a folic acid campaign [more]
C. Anderson and R. Rajyaguru

Changing pharmacists' and pharmacist assistants' practice in dealing with direct requests for non-prescription analgesics [more]
T. Sigrist, S. I. Benrimoj, K. Hersberger and J. Langford

Validation of a "desire for information" scale [more]
C. Duggan, I. Bates, S. Sturman, E. Andersson, K. Åström and J. Carlsson

Clinical medication review by a pharmacist of elderly patients on repeat medications in general practice — pharmacist interventions and review outcomes [more]
D. R. Petty, A. G. Zermansky, D. K. Raynor, C. J. Lowe, N. Freemantle and A. Vail

Pharmacists in a liberalised system — results from a profession-wide survey in Iceland [more]
A. B. Almarsdóttir, I. Björnsdóttir and J. Morgall Traulsen

Pharmacists solving problems in asthma management — experiences from a one-year intervention programme in Finland [more]
U. Närhi, M. Airaksinen and H. Enlund

SOCIOLOGY AND PHARMACY PRACTICE
(2) An introduction to functionalist sociology: Talcott Parsons' concept of the "sick role" [more]
P. Bissell, J. Morgall Traulsen and L. Stig Haugbølle