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The Joint Interim Meeting of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Health (RC 15) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and Inaugural Meeting of the Canadian Medical Sociology Association will be co-organized by Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (McMaster) and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (McGill) and held at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, from May 13th to 16th 2008.

We cordially invite paper submissions for this joint meeting which will be officially bilingual (English/French). We encourage submission of papers on all topics relevant to the sociology of health and health care including, but not limited to:

* aboriginal health and health care
* complementary and alternative health care
* ethnicity, health and health care
* experiences of Health and Illness
* gender, health and health care
* genetics/health technology/ethics & risk
* health services and policy research
* health work/health professions
* international/comparative perspectives on health and health care
* health and health care across the lifecourse
* mental health and health care
* social determinants of health/population health