Riot Trrrans Im Mai sind es 10 Jahre. 10 Jahre seitdem ich die Transition begonnen habe. Bei mir waren die Veränderungen so langsam, dass ich erst seit ca. zwei Jahren die großen Veränderungen wirklich sehe und dadurch allerdings erst bestimmte Wahrnehmungen und Denkprozesse angestoßen werden konnten. Ich habe letztens noch zu einer Freundin gesagt: “Um mich herum heiraten nun sogar meine queeren Freund*innen und ich will wieder über Gender diskutieren und Identität in Frage stellen!” Damit will ich nicht sagen, dass sich das eine und das andere ausschließen. Sondern, dass es diese Erwartung ..read more

Call for Papers: The Sociology of Diagnosis 29th Sociology of Health & Illness Monograph Editors: Annemarie Jutel, Ann V. Bell, Darin Weinberg and Jessica Young In 1978, Mildred Blaxter published her seminal paper on diagnosis as category and as process. Using alcoholism as an example, she mused about how diagnoses were uncritically accepted as simple labels for biological facts (even by sociologists), when instead, they are actually complex social phenomena, deeply embedded in historical antecedents, shaped by the (in)ability to treat, and a changing social landscape. In 2009, Sociology o ..read more

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Hosted by Durham’s Institute for Medical Humanities, the 4th Annual Congress of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research will be held online Wednesday 21 April to Friday 23 April 2021. The event will be the most comprehensive platform for medical humanities research ever staged. Web: https://nnmhr2021.org/ Twitter: #NNMHR2021 https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NNMHR2021&src=typeahead_click With a theme of (In)Visibility, the Congress features more than fifty sessions, four keynote speakers and 170 presenters from across the globe. Cross-cutting themes include ageing, COVID-19, cr ..read more

The Genetic Social Psychology Lab and the ACThealthy:Clinical and Health Psychology Lab of the University of Cyprus, together with the Cyprus Association of Social Psychology, are organising a two-day online symposium entitled: Understanding Health through Qualitative Methods: Perspectives from Clinical, Social and Health Psychology The symposium brings together distinguished scholars of the field to discuss how qualitative methods can facilitate understanding of a variety of health-related issues, such as divergences of perspectives and communication issues between healthcare professionals a ..read more

Call for Papers – Special Issue New Dialogues Between Medical Sociology and Disability Studies Editors: Gareth Thomas (Cardiff University), Sasha Scambler (King’s College London), Janice McLaughlin (Newcastle University) This special issue will dissect the intersections, boundaries, and points of divergence between the disciplines of medical sociology and disability studies. Disability frequently remains on the margins of the sociological imagination. Medical sociology is one discipline where analyses of living with disability have always been present, but such analyses have been critiqued fo ..read more

We are pleased to announce that registrations have opened for the International Society of Critical Health Psychology 12th biennial conference from the 22nd to the 25th August 2021. In-person attendance: Rutherford House, Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand * 22nd – 24th August: conference days * 25 August: Affect & Emotion Network Symposium * Includes: welcome drinks; catering; in-person presentations; full access to conference platform during and after the conference Virtual attendance: OnAIR virtual conferencing platform * participate online via one ..read more

If this email is not displayed correctly, please click here to read this table of contents online. New Issue Alert 12 February 2021 Dear Reader, We are pleased to deliver your requested table of contents alert for Social Theory & Health. Volume 19, Issue 1 is now available online. In this issue Original Article What is public trust in the healthcare system? A new conceptual framework ..read more

We are pleased to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) conference, 2021. This is a hybrid online/offline conference with a main hub in Pōneke (Wellington) Aotearoa (New Zealand) and virtual satellite hubs in Brisbane, London, Santiago, and Guelph. The conference runs from August 22nd-25th 2021 New Zealand Time. We welcome academic and non-academic submissions and across a range of formats, including: Oral presentation Symposium Pecha Kucha Poster Our themes are: Honouring Indigenous voices: De‑colonising perspec ..read more

If this email is not displayed correctly, please click here to read this table of contents online. New Issue Alert 22 August 2020 Dear Reader, We are pleased to deliver your requested table of contents alert for Social Theory & Health. Volume 18, Issue 3 is now available online. In this issue Editorial Self-injury in social context: an emerging sociology Peter Steggals, Ruth Graham, Steph Lawler ..read more