A New Issue of Sociology of Health & Illness is Now Available

March 19, 2008

Sociology of Health & Illness (February 2008 – Vol. 30) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:
“Review article: the sociology of dying, death and bereavement” by Catherine Exley, Originally published January 2004, Volume 26, Issue 1: 1-133
“The phenomenology of death, embodiment and organ transplantation” by Gillian Haddow, Originally published January 2005, Volume 27, Issue 1: 1-161
“Contemporary Hospice Care: the Sequestration of the Unbounded Body and ‘Dirty Dying’” by Julia Lawton, Originally published March 1998, Volume 20, Issue 2: 121-267
“Dying alone” by Clive Seale, Originally published June 1995, Volume 17, Issue 3: 283-439
“Hospice or home? Expectations of end-of-life care among white and Chinese older people in the UK” by Jane Seymour, Sheila Payne, Alice Chapman and Margaret Holloway, Originally published September 2007, Volume 29, Issue 6: 795-956
“Risk, life extension and the pursuit of medical possibility” by Janet K. Shim, Ann J. Russ and Sharon R. Kaufman, Originally published May 2006, Volume 28, Issue 4: 385-512
“Resuscitation Technology in the Emergency Department: Towards a Dignified Death” by Stefan Timmermans, Originally published March 1998, Volume 20, Issue 2: 121-267
“Death brokering: constructing culturally appropriate deaths” by Stefan Timmermans, Originally published November 2005, Volume 27, Issue 7: 873-1036
“Body Worlds: clinical detachment and anatomical awe” by Tony Walter, Originally published May 2004, Volume 26, Issue 4: 385-500
“Explaining the emergence of euthanasia law in the Netherlands: how the sociology of law can help the sociology of bioethics” by Heleen Weyers, Originally published September 2006, Volume 28, Issue 6: 665-881
“Death denial: obstacle or instrument for palliative care? An analysis of clinical literature” by Camilla Zimmermann, Originally published March 2007, Volume 29, Issue 2: 163-320