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 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 prize will be awarded at the BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference, which will be held at Durham University on 1-3 September 2010.

Book Prize Rules and Nomination Form

Please consult the SHI Book Prize Rules before making nominations.  Nominations must be submitted using the SHI Nomination Form.  Nominations and three copies of the nominated books must be received in the BSA Office by 31 March 2010.

2009 Winner

We are delighted to announce that Dr Jessica Mesman won the SHI Book Prize 2009 for Uncertainty in Medical Innovation – Experienced Pioneers in Neonatal Care (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Dr Mesman was nominated by Dr Maggie Mort, Lancaster University.  Warmest congratulations to Dr Mesman on this achievement!

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Previous Winners 

• 2008 Winner:  HIV in South Africa.  Corinne Squire. (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2007).
• 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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