《社会科学与医学》创办于1967年,主编为知名社会医学家彼得·麦克万(Peter M.McEwan),刊物由英国玻嘉蒙出版社(Pergamon Press)出版,该社在北京设有办事处。初始,该刊每年出版一卷,为季刊,每期一般在128页以上;从1970年开始,改成双月刊,篇幅增至每期186页以上,且时多时少视收稿多寡而定;到了1973年,该杂志又改为月刊,但每期篇幅略有减少,有时少则56页,多则达94页;从1977年的第十一卷开始,该刊每年出版十八期,篇幅仍维持 Social Science and Medicine was founded in 1967 as chief social scientist Peter M. McEwan and published by Pergamon Press in the United Kingdom with offices in Beijing . Initially, the magazine published a volume each year for the quarterly, each period generally above 128 pages; from 1970 onwards, into a bimonthly, the length increased to more than 186 pages per issue, and sometimes more or less depending on the size of the receipt; to In 1973, the magazine was replaced by a monthly magazine, but with a slight decrease in each issue, sometimes as little as 56 pages and as many as 94 pages. Since Volume 11 in 1977, the magazine has published 18 issues a year in length maintain