Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize

The Sociology of Health and Illness (SHI) Book Prize of £1,000 is awarded annually each September to the author(s) or editor(s) of the book making the most significant contribution to the sub-discipline of medical sociology/sociology of health and illness and having been published over the three years preceding 1st January of the year in which the award is made.

The 2008 shortlist is:

• Corinne Squire - HIV in South Africa (Routledge)
• Carol Thomas - Sociologies of Disability and Illness (Palgrave)
• Andrew Webster - Health, Technology and Society (Palgrave)

The prize is awarded at the BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference, which will be held at the University of Sussex from Thursday, 4th to Saturday, 6th September 2008.

Book Prize Rules and Nomination Form

Please consult the Book Prize Rules before making nominations.  Nominations must be submitted using the required form.  The submission deadline for the 2008 prize is Friday, 6th March 2008.  Download a 2008 Nomination Form (Word document).

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Previous Winners 

• 2007 Winner:  Postmorten. How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths Stefan Timmermans (The University of Chicago Press, 2006)
• 2006 Winner:  Suffering: A Sociological Introduction.  Iain Wilkinson.  (Policy, 2005).
• 2005 Winner:  The Politics of Personalised Medicine: Pharmacogenetics in the Clinic. Adam Hedgecoe.  (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• 2004 Winner:  The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice.  Annemarie Mol.  (Duke University Press, Durham NC and London).
• 2003 Winner:  Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.  Eric Klinenberg.  (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
• 2002 Winner:  Twice Dead.  Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death.  Margaret Lock.  (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).

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