New Issue of Sociology of Health & Illness is Now Available

June 29, 2009

Sociology of Health & Illness (Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “Violence, dignity and HIV vulnerability: street sex work in Serbia” by Milena Simić and Tim Rhodes, 1-16.
• “AIDS stigma in health services in the Eastern Caribbean” by Scott Edward Rutledge, Neil Abell, Jacqueline Padmore, and Theresa J. McCann, 17-34.
• “Are you sitting comfortably? The political economy of the body” by Peter Wilkin, 35-50.
• “Shifting blame/selling health: corporate social responsibility in the age of obesity” by Clare Herrick, 51-65.
• “Becoming a ‘real’ smoker: cultural capital in young women’s accounts of smoking and other substance use ” by Rebecca J. Haines, Blake D. Poland, and Joy L. Johnson, 66-80.
• “Choosing not to choose: reproductive responses of parents of children with genetic conditions or impairments” by Susan E. Kelly, 81-97.
• “How work reconfigures an ‘unwanted’ pregnancy into ‘the right tool for the job’ in stem cell research” by Naomi Pfeffer, 98-111.
• “From housing wealth to well-being?” by Beverley A. Searle, Susan J. Smith, and Nicole Cook, 112-127.
• “Time, self and the medication day: a closer look at the everyday work of ‘adherence'” by Liza McCoy, 128-146.

Book Reviews Include:

• “The Medicalization of Society: On the transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders – by Conrad, P.” by Mike Bury, 147-148.
• “Health, Risk and Vulnerability Edited by Petersen, A. and Wilkinson, I.” by Ian Rees Jones, 148-149.
• “Researching Trust and Health – by Brownlie, J., Greene, A. and Howson, A.” by Patrick Brown, 149-151.
• “Essays on Professions, Ashgate Classics in Sociology – by Dingwall, R.” by Andy Alaszewski, 151-152.
• “The Sleep of Others and the Transformations of Sleep Research – by Kroker, K.” by Simon J. Williams, 152-153.
• “Critical Bodies. Representations, Identities and Practices of Weight and Body Management’ – by Riley, S., Burns, M., Frith, H., Wiggins, S. and Marcula, P.” by Liz Frost, 153-154.