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CFP: Social Science in Public Health, September 2012, Cambridge

Monday 23 April 2012 ▶
Call for Papers: One Day Symposium

TITLE: Beyond ‘Them’ and ‘Us’? Enacting social science within the public health research agenda on chronic illness

Tuesday 18 September 2012. Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge

Keynote Speakers: Professor David Armstrong, King’s College London; Professor Rose Barbour, Open UniversityMore details...

MedSoc 2012 Conference - Final Call for Papers

Wednesday 18 April 2012 ▶
British Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference 2012, Wednesday 5th - Friday 7th September 2012, University of LeicesterMore details...

BSA Ageing, Body and Society Conference. Critical Perspectives, Future Challenges, July 2012, London

Monday 16 April 2012 ▶
BSA Ageing, Body and Society STUDY GROUP 5TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Critical Perspectives, Future Challenges’, Friday July 6th 2012, The British Library Conference Centre, London
More details...

Rights and Responsibilities: Global Perspectives, June 2012, Sussex

Tuesday 03 April 2012 ▶
The PhD community at the School of Law, Politics and Sociology would like to invite doctoral students to participate in our inaugural PhD conference: Rights and Responsibilities: Global Perspectives, 14 June 2012.More details...

Aging in a Changing World: Abstract deadline extended to April 30!

Monday 02 April 2012 ▶
The Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) is accepting abstracts for "Aging in a Changing World," our 41st Annual Scientific & Educational Meeting.More details...

ENRGHI 2012, UCL, London, September 2012

Friday 23 March 2012 ▶
Calling all early career researchers in health or health care within a social, geographical or environmental context...More details...

Audio/Video research of clinical workplace based learning, Seminar, May 2012, Cardiff

Friday 16 March 2012 ▶
Are you presently undertaking audio/video research in clinical workplace learning environments? Are you planning to undertake such work? If so, you may be interested in a seminar day to be held at Cardiff University.
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BSA MedSoc Annual Conference, September 2012, Leicester

Tuesday 13 March 2012 ▶
We welcome abstract submissions for oral presentations, poster presentations and symposia/special events.More details...

Behavioural & Social Sciences Teaching in Medicine Conference, July 2012, Cardiff

Monday 12 March 2012 ▶
BeSST (Behavoural and Social Sciences Teaching) in Medicine invites proposals for oral presentations and workshops on topics related to any aspects of teaching social and/or behavioural science in medicine.More details...

BSA Ageing, Body and Society Conference, July 2012, London

Tuesday 06 March 2012 ▶
Call for Papers - BSA Ageing, Body and Society Conference. Critical Perspectives, Future ChallengesMore details...

Call for Abstracts: Aging in a Changing World - April 2 Deadline!

Monday 05 March 2012 ▶
The Canadian Association on Gerontology is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for “Aging in a Changing World,” our 41st Annual Scientific & Educational Meeting (ASEM). More details...

Prioritizing Indigenous Maternal & Infant Health

Wednesday 29 February 2012 ▶
Special Issue of Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Indigenous and Community Health

This special issue (Winter 2012) seeks to bring together the various approaches to Indigenous maternal and infant health research and practice.
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3rd Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Suffering, November 2012, Salzburg, Austria

Friday 24 February 2012 ▶
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to explore if, or to what extent, meaning can be found in suffering.More details...

The Society for Social Medicine’s 56th Annual Scientific Meeting, September 2012, London

Wednesday 08 February 2012 ▶
The Society for Social Medicine’s 56th Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM)
will be held in London from Wednesday 12th September until
Friday 14th September 2012.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: DEADLINE: 19th March 2012, 23.59 GMTMore details...

Dying in the Digital Age Conference, June 2012, Bath

Wednesday 08 February 2012 ▶
The University of Bath's Centre for Death & Society (CDAS) announces
its 2012 summer conference.More details...

Calling new authors

Thursday 26 January 2012 ▶

MSo is particularly interested in contributions from new authors. As well as articles for peer review, we are seeking commentaries on appropriate topics and reviews of recently published books.

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ESHMS Conference, August 2012

Wednesday 25 January 2012 ▶
The deadline for abstract submission has now been extended to 29th February 2012.

The European Society of Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) will be holding their next conference from Thursday 30th August to Saturday 1st September 2012 in Hannover, Germany. The theme of the conference is 'Health inequalities over the life course'.More details...

20th Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph

Tuesday 24 January 2012 ▶
Final Reminder: Call for Paper Abstracts

The 20th Sociology of Health and Illness monograph will critically examine the concept of 'health behaviours', which is increasingly widespread in both health research and government policy.More details...

Regulation & Professionalisation in Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Tuesday 20 December 2011 ▶
Call for Papers: This edited collection addresses regulation and professionalization in complementary and alternative medicine, past, present and future. It is intended that this should be much more than a standard edited collection, that the chapters will work together to provide the first major comprehensive historical, comparative and policy based examination of the area.More details...

Using Sociology To Help Prevent Cardiovascular Disease, March 2012, Birmingham

Monday 19 December 2011 ▶
Preventing cardiovascular disease has become a major public health priority, with initiatives in place such as offering smoking cessation and ‘health checks for all those over 40 in primary care, and monitoring risk factors in this population.More details...

Aging in a Changing World, October 2012, Vancouver, Canada

Monday 19 December 2011 ▶
Aging in a Changing World: Save the Date!
41st Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting
Canadian Association on Gerontology (http://www.cagacg.ca)More details...

‘The 21st Century Body’, Symposium, 18th May 2012, London

Friday 16 December 2011 ▶
Exciting developments in the life sciences and their application in biotechnology are helping to provide pioneering cures and therapies for inherited and degenerative diseases. Consider genomics and genetic based therapies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, ICT implants and prosthetics, nanomedicine and care of the ageing and you will see how the way in which we perceive ourselves and those around us is slowly being recast.More details...

The European Society of Health and Medical Sociology Conference (ESHMS)

Thursday 08 December 2011 ▶
The European Society of Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) will be holding their next conference from Thursday 30th August to Saturday 1st September 2012 in Hannover, Germany.  The theme of the conference is 'Health inequalities over the life course'.More details...

2nd Global Conference - Making Sense of: Chronicity, August 2012

Monday 05 December 2011 ▶
2nd Global Conference - Making Sense of: Chronicity: A Health, Illness and Disease Project

Thursday 30th August – Saturday 1st September 2012, Mansfield College, Oxford, United KingdomMore details...

RC15 Sociology of Health, International Sociological Association Forum

Friday 25 November 2011 ▶
Call For Abstracts
RC15 Sociology of Health, International Sociological Association Forum, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1-4, 2012
Session on Health care choice: Discourses, perceptions and experiencesMore details...

BSA Happiness Study Group, Day Conference

Wednesday 09 November 2011 ▶
The British Sociological Association Happiness Study Group invites social scientists to submit abstracts for their forthcoming day conference that aims to explore the theoretical and methodological challenges facing the sociological study of happiness.More details...

Keynote speakers confirmed for BSA Annual Conference

Wednesday 28 September 2011 ▶
The 2012 annual conference promises to be dynamic, fiery, informative,
and is definitely not to be missed. Bettering our 60th anniversary
conference this year will be a challenge, but we're determined we can
make it happen.

Submit your abstract by 7th October.More details...

Call for submissions to MSo

Sunday 07 August 2011 ▶
The new editorial team of Medical Sociology online are looking for articles for their first issue.More details...