Núcleo de Ecologia Humana e Sociologia da Saúde

Spring 2013
Fashion and health are symbiotic; each affects the other. Fashion can make us stand straighter and help prevent osteoporosis. Fashion can also damage our feet and our balance through a choice of shoes or it can exercise our leg muscles and improve our gait. Fashion can protectus from the harsh rays of the sun or monitor our health through embedded electronic sensors. Fashion is a visualization of how we choose to live our lives. The fashion choices we make affect our thoughts and feelings (emotionally, spiritually, physically).
This issue will connect fashion to the topic of health and wellbeing. Manuscripts are requested that explore, define, and document the interconnections between fashion and health. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Fashion design and wellbeing

* Fashion and sports

* The relationship between healthy lifestyles and fashion design
* Fashion and mental health
* Issues related to body image (cross cultural or cross historical)
* Considerations of health/disease and beauty/ugliness as it relates
to body size
* Connections between fashion and appearance management
* Functional fashion and protective apparel
* Unhealthy consumption practices
* Environment and health related to fashion

Submission Guidelines

Prepare a full paper (approximately 6,000-8,000 words in length) for
review. You must also include a biography of the author(s) of no more
than 60 words on a separate page, an abstract of approximately 200
words, and a list of five keywords. Authors are advised to consult the
Berg website for style guidelines
(http://www.bergpublishers.com/JournalsHomepage/FashionPractice/AuthorGuidelines/tabid/3732/Default.aspx).

Contacts: Lucy Dunne (ldunne@umn.edu<mailto:ldunne@umn.edu>) or the
regular editors of Fashion Practice: Marilyn DeLong
(mdelong@umn.edu<mailto:mdelong@umn.edu>) or Sandy Black
(s.black@fashion.arts.ac.uk<mailto:s.black@fashion.arts.ac.uk>)

Submission Deadline: May 25, 2012

A symposium at the University of Minnesota is focused on this topic an d will serve as a pool. However, submissions for this special issue are not limited to authors of the Fashion and Health Symposium at theUniversity of Minnesota

The BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference is always an essential networking event for Medical Sociology academics and professionals. The group celebrates its 44th Anniversary conference in 2012 and interest in the field of Medical Sociology continues to increase. The conference programme includes research papers from all areas of study within the field of medicine, health and illness.  High profile plenary speakers have been selected for the 2012 conference:

• Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University, San Francisco and
• David Armstrong, King’s College, London

With a broad and varied programme including symposia, poster presentations and social events we hope to continue to host the leading UK event for medical sociologists.  The conference will take place at the University of Leicester, from 5-7 September 2012.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstract submission is now open.  Papers, posters and other forms of presentation will be structured around streams that include:

The abstract submission deadline is 20 April 2012.