Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts

INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON

THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH (RC15)

INTERIM MEETING

&

THE CANADIAN MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION

INAUGURAL MEETING

 

“Making Connections for Health”
McGill University, Montréal, Canada

May 13-16, 2008

The conference organisers, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, McMaster University and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, McGill University, wish to invite abstract submissions for this joint meeting which will be officially bilingual (English/French).  We encourage submission of research on all topics relevant to the sociology of health and health care from all parts of the world including, but not limited to:

 ·        aboriginal health and health care;

·        complementary and alternative health care;

·        ethnicity, health and health care;

·        experiences of health and illness;

·        gender, health and health care;

·        genetics/health technology/ethics & risk;

·        health services and policy research;

·        health work/health professions;

·        international/comparative perspectives on health and health care;

·        health and health care across the lifecourse;

·        mental health and health care;

·        social determinants of health/population health