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Dear all,
The journal 'Sociology of Health and Illness' (SHI) is seeking reviews of some new books dealing with various topics relevant to medical sociology. Book reviews should be approximately 800 words and are expected to be submitted within 8-10 weeks of reviewers receiving the book. We have the following books available for review:
Title
Author
Cyborg Mind: What brain-computer and mind-cyberspace interfaces mean for cyberneuroethics
Calum Mackellar
Beauty Scapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
Ruth Holliday, Meredith Jones and David Bell
Madness on Trial- A transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy
James E. Moran
Managing diabetes, managing medicine: chronic diseases and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain
Martin D. Moore
Market Based Health Care- All Myth, No Reality
Grace Budrys
Against All Odds: Psychosocial distress and healing among women
Mahima Mayar
Mobilizing Mutations- Human Genetics in the Age of Patience Advocacy
Daniel Navon
Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the new right-wing politics of precarity
Hosang and Lowndes
Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease
Jeffrey Bennett
Enforcing Exclusion: Precarious Migrants and the Law in Canada
Sarah Marsden
Steeped in Blood: Adoption, identity and the meaning of family
Frances Latchford
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots and the Politics of Technological Futures
Atanasoski and Vora
Forgetting Items: The social experience of Alzheimer's disease
Baptiste Brossard
Silent Cells: The secret drugging of captive America
Anthony Ryan Hatch
The Impossible Clinic: A Critical Sociology of Evidence Based Medicine
Ariane Hanemaayer
If you would like to review one of these books for SHI, please get in touch with us as soon as possible. It would also help us greatly if you were to provide a sentence or two on your current academic status, so we can ensure that we offer opportunities to people across the career range and from a variety of disciplines associated with medical sociology.
Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from you!
Gillian Love and Shadreck Mwale (Book Review Editors, Sociology of Health and Illness)
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Dr Gillian Love
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School of Law, Politics and Sociology
University of Sussex
Office hours Autumn 2019: Tuesdays 11.00-13.00 in Freeman G37
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