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New! Top cited and top downloaded articles now available!
A list is now available which contains the top cited and top downloaded articles of the journal as of August 2009. The list will be updated regularly so keep an eye on what's popular and watch out for your article here

Call for proposals for the 18th Sociology of Health and Illness monograph

Proposals are invited for the eighteenth volume in the monograph series to be published by Sociology of Health and Illness in conjunction with Wiley-Blackwell. The Editorial Board of the journal will consider all proposals for the 18th monograph when it meets in September 2009.

For more information please download the PDF.

New! Virtual Special Issue on Genetics, Genomics and ‘Post-Genomics’
Richard Tutton and Nina Hallowell have assembled a collection of articles on this theme published in the journal. To read their editorial and access the articles click here and look out for more virtual special issues coming soon.

BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference Sep 2009: call for papers

British Sociological Association
MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY GROUP
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2009
Thursday 3rd – Saturday 5th September 2009
University of Manchester

Further details and abstract submission form available from: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/medsoc and bsamedsoc@britsoc.org.uk

The abstract submission deadline is April 24th 2009.
Abstracts received after this date will not be considered.

Call for Proposals for the 17th Sociology of Health and Illness monograph

Body Work in Health and Social Care: Critical Themes, Future Agendas

Edited by: Julia Twigg (University of Kent), Carol Wolkowitz (University of Warwick), Rachel Cohen (University of Warwick) and Sarah Nettleton (University of York)

Proposals for papers are invited for contributions to the seventeenth monograph in the series to be published by Sociology of Health and Illness in conjunction with Wiley-Blackwell Publishers. We seek submissions that put body work at the centre of the labour processes of health and social care. Body work is understood here as work that focuses directly on the bodies of patients, clients and customers, especially where this involves touch or close proximity to bodies and body fluids. We are particularly interested in submissions that contribute theoretical and empirical depth to our understanding of: (1) the conceptualisation of body work, especially in relation to the nature of work and the meaning of the somatic; (2) the contexts in which body work takes place, including the knowledge systems practitioners draw on and the status hierarchies in which they are embedded; and (3) structural changes in the organisational context of body work and labour market conditions that may affect the content, meaning and experience of such work. Papers explorating similarities and contrasts between the work relations of body work in health and social care and other sectors are welcomed.

Possible themes include:
- Transforming and disciplining the body through health, care and death work
- Regulating practitioners’ bodies and their interactions
- Intersubjectivity and power, for example touch, emotion and reflexivity; ‘dirty work’ and abjection; sexualisation
- The recruitment and training of people undertaking body work in health and social care, for instance the role of migration.
 

The monograph will appear both as a regular issue of the journal and in book form. Potential contributors should send an abstract of up to 800 words by 30 Jan 2009 to Ann Ryan (ann.ryan@warwick.ac.uk), who will distribute it to the editors. Informal email enquiries prior to submission can also be sent to Ann Ryan. We welcome studies from a range of countries and contexts. Name and institutional affiliation of author(s) should also be supplied, including full contact details of the main author.Proposals will be reviewed by the editors and authors will be notified by 31 March 2009. Authors whose outlines are short-listed will be invited to submit an article of 6,000 to 7,000 words by 31 July 2009. All such submissions will be refereed in the usual way for Sociology of Health and Illness submissions and should follow the journal’s style guidelines (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shil_enhanced/submit.asp). The planned publication date is February 2011.

Editorial Nominations Open

Nominations are now open for candidates to fill vacancies on the SHI Editorial Board. The successful candidates will be confirmed by election at the BSA Medical Sociology Group’s AGM on Friday 5th September. If you would like to nominate someone for a place on the Editorial Board, please complete and return the form linked below before Friday 22nd August. Please note the early deadline for nominations, as this differs from previous years.

Please find nomination form here.

Sociology of Health & Illness Book of the Year Prize
The journal awards an annual prize in association with the British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group. Further details about the current competition can be obtained from the BSA homepage

Call for Review Papers for Sociology of Health & Illness
Do you want to write a Review Paper for SHI?
Review Papers are a new and exciting feature of the journal.  Review Papers will provide a state-of-the-art overview of the literature and we anticipate these papers will provide valuable summaries for both teaching and research purposes.  The Editors of Sociology of Health & Illness are therefore seeking short (one-page) proposals from authors who would like to write reviews of either established or emerging areas in the field of the Sociology of Health & Illness.  

Sociology of Health and Illness New Writer's Prize
The Editorial Board of Sociology of Health and Illness offers an annual prize of £250 for the best article published by a novice writer. The Editorial Board would like to offer their congratulations to Peter Riley Bahr of Wayne State University who is the winner of the prize for 2007 for his article "Race and nutrition: an investigation of Black-White differences in health-related nutritional behaviours" 29(6):831-56