Medical Sociology online (MSo)

A free access publication of the British Sociological Association.

Medical Sociology online (MSo), a free access publication of the British Sociological Association, publishes high quality research articles and commentaries in the field of medical sociology. The journal is a publication of the BSA MedSoc Group and has an interest in promoting the work of all sections of the medical sociology academic community, including postgraduate students and first time authors as well as those established in the field.

From July 2011 the editorship of MSo will be held by a team from the Faculty of Health and Social Care of the Open University.  The MSo website provides full details about how to submit articles, commentaries and news items to the journal.

MSo aims to include contributions that discuss topics across the broad field of medical sociology including, but not limited to: Health and illness experience; health professions and occupations; sexuality and reproductive health; death and dying; bioethics; infectious disease; globalisation; substance misuse and addiction; gender; health policy development; science technology and medicine; mental health; cancer.

There is a very wide range of expertise represented amongst Editorial Board members including: social context of death and dying; community care; alternative and complementary medicine; ethics; older people; aspects of environment across the life course including space and place, housing, home, care settings, extra care and sheltered housing, neighbourhoods and public places; professional identities such as those associated with community matrons and social workers; social theory; ethnicity and health inequalities; medicalisation of child sexual abuse/safeguarding; child health; management and leadership in health; sociology of work in health and social care particularly volunteering and management; spirituality, reproductive health; user perspectives; recovery.

For further information please email the team.

Open University Editorial Team: Jackie Watts (Editor in Chief), Rose Barbour, Maxine Birch, Joyce Cavaye, Caroline Holland, Jeanne Katz, Joan Simons and Eileen Oak.

Medical Sociology online - Previous Issues

• Volume 5 Issue 1
• Volume 4 Issue 2
• Volume 4 Issue 1
• Volume 3 Issue 2
• Volume 3 Issue 1
• Volume 2 Issue 2
• Volume 2 Issue 1
• Volume 1 Issue 1
• Volume 31 No 3
• Volume 31 No 2
• Volume 31 No 1
• Volume 30 No 3
• Volume 30 No 2
• Volume 30 No 1
• Volume 29 No 3
• Volume 29 No 2
• Volume 28 No 3
• Volume 28 No 2
• Volume 28 No 1
• Volume 27 No 3
• Volume 27 No 2
• Volume 27 No 1
• Volume 26 No 3
• Volume 26 No 2

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