Shortlisting Success

Professor Alison Pilnick’s book Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between Autonomy and Abandonment published by Emerald has been shortlisted for the prestigious Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness (FSHI) Book Prize.

The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness (FSHI) Book Prize of £1,000 is awarded annually each September to the author(s) or editor(s) of the book making the most significant contribution to medical sociology/sociology of health and illness and having been published over the three years preceding 1 January of the year in which the award is made.

2023 Shortlist

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for this year's prize:

• Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological Perspectives (Baptiste Brossard [York] and Amy Chander [Edinburgh])
• Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between Autonomy and Abandonment (Alison Pilnick [Nottingham])
• Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States (Anne Pollock [KCL])
• The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City (Nikolas Rose [UCL] and Des Fitzgerald [Cork])

The winner will be announced at the conference dinner at the BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference in September.