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 has been held by a team from the Faculty of Health and Social Care of the Open University. The MSo website has been redesigned and the first issue was published at the end of November 2011. The next issue is to be published in May of 2012. The new site provides full details about how to submit articles, commentaries and news items to the journal.
Welcome to MSo
You can navigate to the various sections of the site using the menu list on the right hand side of each page.
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.
MSo is the journal of the Medical Sociology Group
of the British Sociological Association
