Costa Book Awards, Nurse Newcomer

The Guardian announces today: An intensive care nurse at Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London will compete for one of the UK’s biggest literary prizes after her debut novel was shortlisted in the Costa book awards. Christie Watson, who has been a nurse for 18 years, is nominated in the first book category of [...]

CFP: Soc Health, Illness (Monograph)

Call for Paper Abstracts: 20th Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shil_enhanced/news.asp Simon Cohn, editor Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 31st January 2012. 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. Whether already an established [...]

CFS: Real Stories of Nurses

Creative Nonfiction is seeking essays by and about nurses for a new collection, Becoming a Nurse: Real Stories of Nurses, Their Lives and Their Patients. We’re looking for stories from a variety of viewpoints, and we are hoping you will help us reach your members. Most Americans will be hospitalized at some point in their [...]

CFS: Perspectives on Addiction (Book)

Call for Submissions: Critical Perspectives on Addiction (Volume 14 of Advances in Medical Sociology) http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=1057-6290  Editor: Julie Netherland (City University of New York Graduate Center) | Series Editor: Professor Barbara Katz Rothman | Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Our understandings of addiction are rapidly changing. New technologies and biomedical treatments are reconfiguring addiction as a brain [...]

CFS: Other Mothers (Edited Book)

New Call for Submissions for an Edited Collection: Other Mothers/Other Mothering Other mothers and other mothering roles may be found throughout history and across diverse cultures. Other mothers may be the paradigmatic first responders, the first-teachers of informal and formal learnings, or first care-givers for the formative triage years of children and youth. Other mothering [...]

CFS Book Project: Becoming a Nurse

Creative Nonfiction is seeking essays by and about nurses for a new collection, Becoming a Nurse: Real Stories of Nurses, Their Lives and Their Patients. Most Americans will be hospitalized at some point in their lives, and nurses will be their most consistent point of contact with the health care establishment. While doctors have long [...]

Sexual, Gender Diversity Training Resource

True Colors, a Connecticut based not-for-profit that supports sexual minority youth, their families, educators and healthcare providers, announces the release of A Sexuality and Gender Diversity Training Program: Increasing the Competency of Mental Health Professionals, co-authored by True Colors Executive Director, Robin McHaelen. The book will be useful for mental health and school nurses. “This book represents 20 years [...]

CFP: Critical Cultural Studies in Global Health Communication (book series)

Request for manuscripts and manuscript proposals on Critical Cultural Studies in Global Health Communication Series Editors: Mohan J. Dutta, Purdue University, and Ambar Basu, University of South Florida Global changes in migratory patterns, the increasing health inequalities faced by the poor, the health risks faced by communities at the margins of global societies, and the [...]

CFP: Stories of Complicated Grief (Proposed Book)

Early Call for Potential Book Chapter Contributors for Stories of Complicated Grief Complicated grief (sometimes known as prolonged grief disorder) is generally viewed as a form of grief that affects a subset of those who have lost a loved one. Such individuals tend to have more severe grief reactions such as intense yearning and longing [...]

CFS: Encyclo Primary Prevention, Health Promotion

Because the Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion 2nd edition (Tom Gullotta and Martin Bloom, Senior Editors) has now grown from 1 to 4 volumes and is projected to total more than 3200 pages, we are actively searching for writing teams for several unassigned entries and would ask those who might be interested in [...]