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International Sociological Association
Research Committee on Sociology of Health RC15

Established in 1959

Objectives
Research into the sociology of health and illness is the primary objective of RC 15. It supports individual scholars, institutions, and associations that are concerned with such research. It promotes information exchange and scientific meetings at regional, national, and international levels. It encourages the generation of sociological knowledge that enables health professional administrators, officials, and planners to improve the delivery of health services in the domains of prevention, management, cure, and rehabilitation. It also stimulates the thinking of health scholars in search of the most vital concepts and analytical frameworks for understanding health and illness in society.

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Board 2006-2010
President
William C. Cockerham, University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA, wcocker@uab.edu
Vice-President
Ellen Annandale, Leicester University, UK, eca7@le.ac.uk
Secretary and Treasurer
Robert Dingwall, University of Nottingham, UK, Robert.Dingwall@nottingham.ac.uk
Board members at large
Ishwar Modi, India International Institute of Social Sciences, The Universe, India
Jonathan Gabe, University of London, UK
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, McMaster University, Canada
Leah Gilbert, Witwatersrand University, South Africa
Christopher Ntau, University of Botswana, Botswana

Past Boards

Cross Interest
RC11 Sociology of Aging
RC46 Clinical Sociology
RC49 Mental Health and Illness

RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups

Forthcoming Activities
Health for All: Opportunities and Challenges
RC15 Mid-term conference
Jaipur, India,
September 21-23, 2009
Abstracts: May 31, 2009

XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology

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At least two Newsletters a year, distributed by mail and e-mail.
Editor: Ellen Kuhlmann, Germany, e.c.kuhlmann@bath.ac.uk

- April 2009 [Acrobat Reader pdf file, 280KB]
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- April 2008 [Acrobat Reader pdf file, 190KB]
- October 2007 [Acrobat Reader pdf file, 351KB]
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May 2007 [Acrobat Reader pdf file, 293KB]

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