New Issue of Sociology of Health & Illness is Now Available

April 28, 2009

Sociology of Health & Illness (Volume 31, Issue 4, May 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

  • “Indeterminacy and technicality revisited: how medicine and nursing have responded to the evidence based movement” by Michael Traynor, 494-507.
  • “‘Futureless persons’: shifting life expectancies and the vicissitudes of progressive illness” by Barbara E. Gibson, Hilde Zitzelsberger, and Patricia McKeever, 554-568.
  • “Eugenic utopias/dystopias, reprogenetics, and community genetics” by Aviad E. Raz, 602-616.

Book Reviews Include:

  • The logic of care: health and the problem of patient choice – by Mol, A.” by Moira Kelly, 618-619.
  • Ethnicity, Health and Health Care: Understanding diversity, tackling disadvantage – Edited by Ahmad, W.I.U. and Bradby, H.” by Simon Dyson, 619-620.
  • Critical Perspectives in Public Health – by Green, J. and Labonte, R. and Citizens at the Centre: Deliberative participation in healthcare decisions – by Davies, C., Wetherall, H. and Barrett, E.” by Helen Roberts, 620-621.
  • Human Cloning in the Media: From science fiction to science practice – by Haran, J., Kitzinger, J., McNeil, M., and O’Riordan, K” by Richard Elliott, 622-623.
  • Undertaking Sensitive Research in the Health and Social Sciences: Managing boundaries, emotions and risks – by Dickson-Swift, V., James, E.L. and Liamputtong, P.” by Rosaline S. Barbour, 623-624.