CALL FOR PAPERS: CALL FOR PAPERS: SOCIOLOGY OF DIAGNOSIS
Volume 13 of Advances in Medical Sociology
Barbara KatzRothman (CUNY), series editor
Editors: PJ McGann and David J. Hutson (University of Michigan)
ABSTRACTS DUE: April 5, 2010
The Advances in Medical Sociology series seeks submissions for a new volume on Sociology of Diagnosis. Diagnosis is central to medical practice, medical knowledge and research, medicalization dynamics, and health and illness experience. Embedded in social relations, diagnoses reflect and shape social dynamics and cultural concerns. Diagnoses are integral to resource allocation, form the basis for identities and action, and may become a focal point of turf battles and contested authority. Some diagnoses are willingly embraced, whereas others are strenuously resisted. Sometimes diagnoses come and go as fashions, yet some diagnoses persist. A sociological approach to diagnosis thus occupies a complex intersection of diverse subfields including medical sociology, sociology of knowledge, mental health, deviance and social control, sociology of science, social movements, the body, sexualities, gender, and the sociology of health and illness. Yet, despite path-breaking early statements (M. Blaxter 1978, P. Brown 1990) and suggestive recent work informed by feminist, Foucauldian, and cultural theories, the sociology of diagnosis is yet to cohere. With this in mind we envision Volume 13 as a touchstone text of sociologically informed empirical reports, conceptual pieces, and theoretical statements that define and survey the broad terrain of diagnosis-related inquiry. Accordingly we seek submissions that explore diagnosis as a social category and/or those that investigate diagnostic processes. Given the potential breadth of the field we are interested in a wide variety of topics including, but not limited to:
• Social activism and diagnostic categories
• Expansion & contraction of diagnostic boundaries
• Lay diagnosis
• Diagnoses and medical authority
• Contested diagnoses
• Diagnosis and stigma
• Embodiment and diagnosis
• Diagnosis and reality construction
• Diagnosis and social control
• Role of diagnosis in medicalization processes
• Collective identity, politics, and diagnosis
• Time- and culture-bound syndromes
• Existentiality of diagnostic categories
• Globalization of diagnosis
Interested contributors should email a 300-500 word abstract no later than April 5, 2010 to the editors at soc-of-diagnosis@umich.edu.
Inquiries are also welcome at this address. Please include the name(s), affiliation(s), and full contact information for the author(s) with the abstract. The editors will contact authors regarding their submissions by May 21, 2010. The deadline for full submissions (7500-8500 words) is November 15, 2010. The target date for publication of Volume 13 is late 2011/early 2012.
Volume 13 of Advances in Medical Sociology
Barbara KatzRothman (CUNY), series editor
Editors: PJ McGann and David J. Hutson (University of Michigan)
ABSTRACTS DUE: April 5, 2010
The Advances in Medical Sociology series seeks submissions for a new volume on Sociology of Diagnosis. Diagnosis is central to medical practice, medical knowledge and research, medicalization dynamics, and health and illness experience. Embedded in social relations, diagnoses reflect and shape social dynamics and cultural concerns. Diagnoses are integral to resource allocation, form the basis for identities and action, and may become a focal point of turf battles and contested authority. Some diagnoses are willingly embraced, whereas others are strenuously resisted. Sometimes diagnoses come and go as fashions, yet some diagnoses persist. A sociological approach to diagnosis thus occupies a complex intersection of diverse subfields including medical sociology, sociology of knowledge, mental health, deviance and social control, sociology of science, social movements, the body, sexualities, gender, and the sociology of health and illness. Yet, despite path-breaking early statements (M. Blaxter 1978, P. Brown 1990) and suggestive recent work informed by feminist, Foucauldian, and cultural theories, the sociology of diagnosis is yet to cohere. With this in mind we envision Volume 13 as a touchstone text of sociologically informed empirical reports, conceptual pieces, and theoretical statements that define and survey the broad terrain of diagnosis-related inquiry. Accordingly we seek submissions that explore diagnosis as a social category and/or those that investigate diagnostic processes. Given the potential breadth of the field we are interested in a wide variety of topics including, but not limited to:
• Social activism and diagnostic categories
• Expansion & contraction of diagnostic boundaries
• Lay diagnosis
• Diagnoses and medical authority
• Contested diagnoses
• Diagnosis and stigma
• Embodiment and diagnosis
• Diagnosis and reality construction
• Diagnosis and social control
• Role of diagnosis in medicalization processes
• Collective identity, politics, and diagnosis
• Time- and culture-bound syndromes
• Existentiality of diagnostic categories
• Globalization of diagnosis
Interested contributors should email a 300-500 word abstract no later than April 5, 2010 to the editors at soc-of-diagnosis@umich.edu.
Inquiries are also welcome at this address. Please include the name(s), affiliation(s), and full contact information for the author(s) with the abstract. The editors will contact authors regarding their submissions by May 21, 2010. The deadline for full submissions (7500-8500 words) is November 15, 2010. The target date for publication of Volume 13 is late 2011/early 2012.
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