Gary Easthope is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has eclectic research interests and has published books, book chapters and articles on education, social research methods, ethnicity and health, disability, the wilderness movement, drug use and alternative medicine. Emily Hansen is a Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at the University of Tasmania. Her research interests include medical sociology, medical anthropology, general practice and primary health care.

• 1. Lifestyle as a Medical Explanatory Model 2. Is the Medical Lifestyle Approach to Maintaining Health and Preventing Disease Successful? 3. Assumptions Underlying the Medical Approach to Lifestyle 4. Methodology and Research Methods 5. Lifestyle in Medical and Lay Texts 6. Doctors’ Understanding of Lifestyle 7. Reflections on Lifestyle in Medicine

Gary Easthope is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has eclectic research interests and has published books, book chapters and articles on education, social research methods, ethnicity and health, disability, the wilderness movement, drug use and alternative medicine. Emily Hansen is a Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at the University of Tasmania. Her research interests include medical sociology, medical anthropology, general practice and primary health care.

• 1. Lifestyle as a Medical Explanatory Model 2. Is the Medical Lifestyle Approach to Maintaining Health and Preventing Disease Successful? 3. Assumptions Underlying the Medical Approach to Lifestyle 4. Methodology and Research Methods 5. Lifestyle in Medical and Lay Texts 6. Doctors’ Understanding of Lifestyle 7. Reflections on Lifestyle in Medicine

Gary Easthope is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has eclectic research interests and has published books, book chapters and articles on education, social research methods, ethnicity and health, disability, the wilderness movement, drug use and alternative medicine. Emily Hansen is a Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at the University of Tasmania. Her research interests include medical sociology, medical anthropology, general practice and primary health care.

• 1. Lifestyle as a Medical Explanatory Model 2. Is the Medical Lifestyle Approach to Maintaining Health and Preventing Disease Successful? 3. Assumptions Underlying the Medical Approach to Lifestyle 4. Methodology and Research Methods 5. Lifestyle in Medical and Lay Texts 6. Doctors’ Understanding of Lifestyle 7. Reflections on Lifestyle in Medicine