ABSTRACT
The journey is in part from ‘class and health’ to ‘biography and health’. This is a journey from an area which is stereotypically, though not invariably, quantitative, cross-sectional, static, depending on measures of health and of class which are as precise as possible, to a field of work which is probably, though not necessarily, qualitative, encompassing change and the constructed nature of both health and social structure. This journey is mapped in more detail throughout this volume.
