New Virtual Special Issues

We have released a series of virtual issues from Social Science & Medicine which bring together articles from hot topics in the area. The special issues feature articles on:

• Health Behavior Change
• Gender and Health
• Child Health

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Special Issue Call for Papers

Social Science & Medicine is planning a special issue on Global Health Assistance guest edited by Devi Sridhar and David Craig. For more information and submission details click on the link below.

• Global Health Assistance: Qualitative Evidence on What Works and Why
      
• Organisation Studies and the Analysis of Health Systems

Regular Special Issues

Potential guest editors are invited to submit Special Issue proposals to Social Science & Medicine throughout the year. Guidelines can be found here

Recently Published Special Issues Available on ScienceDirect:

Part Special Issue: Women, Mothers and HIV Care in Resource Poor Settings

Early life effects on socioeconomic performance and mortality in later life: A full life course approach using contemporary and historical sources

Selected research from the XII International Symposium in Medical Geography 2007

Ethics and the ethnography of medical research in Africa

Stigma, Prejudice, Discrimination and Health

Future Health Systems

Informed Consent in a Changing Environment

Placing Health in Context

Developing Debate through Discussion

In a recent editorial Editor-in-Chief, Ellen Annandale states; “Readers will have noticed that we have recently introduced debates and commentaries on papers which raise particularly topical and controversial issues”. (Read the full editorial here).We are keen to stimulate expert debate and commentaries in response to its published articles. Contributors are invited to submit timely commentaries on recently published, in press and accepted papers that will be of interest to the wide readership of the Journal and which substantially contribute to debate. Where possible commentaries will be published alongside and accompanied by a response from the author of the original article.

Recently Published Debate Articles Available on ScienceDirect:

From pleasure to pain: The role of the MPQ in the language of phantom limb pain
Cassandra S. Crawford
Volume 69, Issue 5, September 2009

Indescribable pain in literature: A commentary on Crawford 
Ryan Mowat
Volume 69, Issue 5, September 2009

The inarticulacy/indescribability of pain: A rejoinder to Mowat 
Cassandra S. Crawford
Volume 69, Issue 5, September 2009

How Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine challenges the ethics of physician migration 
Robert Huish
Volume 69, Issue 3, August 2009

A Cuban revolution in medical education: A commentary on Huish 
Ken Flegel
Volume 69, Issue 3, August 2009

Extending specialist palliative care to people with heart failure: Semantic, historical and practical limitations to policy guidelines 
Sangeeta Chattoo, Karl M. Atkin
Volume 69, Issue 2, July 2009

Commentaries should be submitted via our online submission system (EES) under Article Type "Commentary"; further information is available in the Guide for Authors and from the Managing Editor.

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Social Science & Medicine articles are published online less than 6 weeks after acceptance.

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  Editorial: Retaining the Sociology in Medical Sociology

Sarah Nettleton
Social Science & Medicine, Volume 65, Issue 12, December 2007, Pages 2409-2412

In her timely editorial Sarah Nettleton, Social Science & Medicine’s senior medical sociology editor, announces that the Medical Sociology Office “…is keen to encourage papers that are theoretically informed or inspired by traditional sociological concerns and/or more recent theoretical developments. Read more here.

Bureaucratic Itineraries in Colombia. A theoretical and methodological tool to assess managed-care health care systems

Cesar Ernesto Abadia and Diana G. Oviedo
Volume 68, Issue 6, March 2009, Pages 1153-1160

This article has produced significant political debate and media interest in Colombia. It examines the idea that while there have been steady increases in the number of Colombians insured by the health care system, hundreds of thousands of legal actions have had to be carried out to warrant citizens’ rights to health. The study analyzes the relationships between patients’ experiences of systematic denials to health care in Colombia, the country's legal mechanisms, and the functioning of insurance companies and service providing institutions. It finds that managed care in Colombia has created complex bureaucracies that delay and limit health care through cost-containment mechanisms, and result in harmful consequences for people's lives.

Link to the article on ScienceDirect

Link to the Spanish version of the article

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