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.

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!

2009 Shortlist

Of 19 nominated books for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009, 3 books were shortlisted:

• Annandale, Ellen. Women’s Health and Social Change (Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, 2008). Nominated by Dr Natalie Armstrong, University of Leicester.
• Day, Sophie. On the Game: Women and Sex Work (Pluto Press, 2007). Nominated by Prof Beverly Skeggs, Goldsmiths University of London.
• Mesman, Jessica. Uncertainty in Medical Innovation – Experienced Pioneers in Neonatal Care (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Nominated by Dr Maggie Mort, Lancaster University.

The prize was awarded at the BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference, which was held at the University of Manchester on 3-5 September 2009.

Book Prize Rules and Nomination Form

Nominations for the 2009 Book Prize are closed.  Please watch this space for the opening of 2010 Nominations.

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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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