Health Sociology Review

An international, scholarly peer-reviewed journal, Health Sociology Review (ISSN 1446-1242) from eContent Management explores the contribution of sociology and sociological research methods to understanding health and illness; to health policy, promotion and practice; and to equity, social justice, social policy and social work.

INDEXED IN Thomson Reuters SSCI
(Social Sciences Citation Index)

Health Sociology Review is published in association with The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) under the editorship of Dr Fran Collyer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at The University of Sydney. Health Sociology Review publishes original theoretical and research articles, literature reviews, special issues, symposia, commentaries and book reviews:

Editor-in-Chief:
Fran Collyer

Associate Editors:
Jane Edwards
Peter Gale
Simon Kitto
Pauline Savy

Book Review Editor:
Dorothy Broom

Health Sociology Review publishes one regular issue of feature research articles and three topic-based special issues per annum - including, in 2009:

Social Determinants of Child Health and Wellbeing (vol 18/1, April 2009)
Guest Edited by Jianghong Li, Fiona Stanley and Eugen Mattes (University of Western Australia), Anne McMurray (Murdoch University) and Clyde Hertzman (University of British Columbia)

Expert Patient Policy (vol 18/2, June 2009)
Guest Edited by Sally Lindsay (University of Salford)

Ageing, Anti-ageing and Globalization (vol 18/4, December 2009)
Guest Edited by Brett Neilson and Beatriz Cardona (Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney)

Special issues are also released as books with their own ISBN for use as course readers or separate sale to non-subscribers. Evaluation copies of all special issues are available to Course Coordinators from the publisher at: subscriptions@e-contentmanagement.com.

Health sociologists, medical anthropologists, cultural studies researchers, health policy and social work researchers, psychologists, counsellors, nurse and medical researchers, are invited to contact the Editor in Chief or Associate Editors with proposals for special issues. Proposals should be grounded in the sociology literature. Special issue proposal guidelines are available from the publisher: info@e-contentmanagement.com.

Contributors to regular issues should follow the journal Author Guidelines.

Abstracting and indexing

Health Sociology Review (ISSN 1446-1242) is abstracted and indexed in:

Thomson Reuters Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Thomson Reuters Social Scisearch
Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
PsycINFO - American Psychological Association
International Bibliography of Social Sciences - London School of Economics
CINAHL Information Services - EBSCO Publishing
Scopus/Excerpta - Elsevier Science Publishers
AMI - Australian Medical Index (Meditext)
APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service

Health Sociology Review (ISSN 1446-1242) is listed in Cabell's and Ulrich's Periodicals Directories and the DEST register of refereed journals (ERA Research Journal Ranking B).

Boxed Cases of Special Issues -
Advances in Health Sociology

In addition to availability by individual ISBN, Health Sociology Review special issues are available in hard copy as boxed sets at discounted rates for new library collections. These annual boxed sets of special issues are available under the series title Advances in Health Sociology (ISSN 1836-4993). Librarians are invited to contact eContent or your subscription agent for discounts.

2009

Ageing, Anti-ageing and Globalization: Transitions and limits in the governance of ageing Brett Neilson, Beatriz Cardona
ISBN: 978-1-921348-20-4

Expert Patient Policy Sally Lindsay
ISBN: 978-1-921348-16-7

Social Determinants of Child Health and Wellbeing Jianghong Li, Fiona Stanley, Eugen Mattes, Anne McMurray, Clyde Hertzman
ISBN: 978-1-921348-15-0

2008

Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenges for Biomedicine? Hans Baer, Ian Coulter
ISBN: 978-1-921348-01-3

Community, Family, Citizenship and the Health of LGBTIQ People Jane Edwards, Damien W Riggs
ISBN: 978-1-921348-03-7

Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives Christine Beasley, Megan Warin
ISBN: 978-1-921348-00-6

2007

Death, Dying and Loss in the 21^st Century Allan Kellehear
ISBN: 978-0-9757422-9-7

Social Equity and Health Toni Schofield, Olle Lundberg, Fran Collyer
ISBN: 978-0-9757422-8-0

2006

Medical Dominance Revisited Evan Willis
ISBN: 978-0-9757422-6-6

Childbirth, Politics and the Culture of Risk Kerreen Reiger, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, Karen Lane
ISBN: 978-0-9775242-5-9

Revisiting Sexualities and Health Victor Minichiello, David Plummer
ISBN: 978-0-9757422-5-9

2005

Closing Asylums for the Mentally Ill Pauline Savy
ISBN: 978-0975742-21-1

Workplace Health and Neoliberalism Toni Schofield
ISBN: 978-0-9750436-4-6

Price and availability

From 2009, Health Sociology Review is available as an 'online plus print-on-demand' subscription. Current prices are indicated under Subscriptions. Institutional subscribers receive access to current and back issues online through Atypon-link. Supplementary print copies may be ordered directly from the publisher. Multicampus, multiuser licenses and single user password access may be arranged by subscribers through their subscription agent or with the publisher. Online access is available to subscribers through EBSCOhost, SwetsWise, CNPIEC and CELDES.

Discounted hard copy subscriptions are available to TASA members.

Pay per View (PPV) access for individual articles is available from Atypon. Special issues are available under their eISBN on a PPV, sale or multiuser lease from Ebook Library to institutions and from eBooks.com to individuals.

Copyright ownership

To track copyright compliance each article has a Digital Object Identifier.

Copyright in all back volume, current and submitted material to Health Sociology Review and Annual Review of Health Social Sciences is vested in eContent Management Pty Ltd - in any medium, form, combination or format. Permission to reproduce material from Health Sociology Review and Annual Review of Health Social Sciences , which falls outside the provisions of the Australian Copyright Act 1968, should be sought directly from the copyright owner at: info@e-contentmanagement.com.

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Health Sociology Review (ISSN 1446-1242) and its predecessor
Annual Review of Health Social Sciences (ISSN 1036-6733)
are owned and distributed exclusively by
eContent Management Pty Ltd (ABN 87 091 432 567)

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