New Issue of Sociology of Health & Illness is Now Available
August 11, 2009
Sociology of Health & Illness (Volume 31, Issue 5, July 2009) is now available by subscription only.
Articles Include:
- “Medicine and management in a comparative perspective: the case of Denmark and England” by Ian Kirkpatrick, Peter Kragh Jespersen, Mike Dent, and Indareth Neogy, 642-658.
- “Everyday health and the internet: a mediated health perspective on health information seeking” by Joëlle Kivits, 673-687.
- “Fear, fascination and the sperm donor as ‘abjection’ in interviews with heterosexual recipients of donor insemination” by Jennifer Burr, 705-718.
- “Derivative benefits: exploring the body through complementary and alternative medicine” by Charlotte Baarts and Inge Kryger Pedersen, 719-733.
- “Functions of health fatalism: fatalistic talk as face saving, uncertainty management, stress relief and sense making” by Bethany Keeley, Lanelle Wright, and Celeste M. Condit, 734-747.
Book Reviews Include:
- “When Doctors Become Patients” by Caitlin E. Slodden, 780-781.
- “Medical technology into healthcare and society. A sociology of devices, innovation and governance” by Pascale Lehoux, 781-783.
- “Mediating Health Information” by Freddie Attenborough, 783-784.
- “Suicide. The hidden side of modernity” by Stephen Platt, 784-785,
