The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce that Professor Deborah Lynn Steinberg has guest edited a special issue of Body and Society 2015 ‘Estranged Bodies: Shifting Paradigms and the Biomedical Imaginary’ http://bod.sagepub.com/content/21/3.toc and that this has just been published. This includes two new papers:

• ‘The Bad Patient: Estranged Subjects of the Cancer Culture’ http://bod.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1357034X15586240v1.pdf?ijkey=zQDOyfV76JdVJQ2&keytype=finite

• ‘Estranged Bodies: Shifting Paradigms and the Biomedical Imaginary’ http://bod.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1357034X15586242v1.pdf?ijkey=anrsQM4PiiXzroG&keytype=finite

This special issue is an output of the ESRC seminar series 2009-11: ‘Retheorising Women’s Health: Shifting Paradigms and the Biomedical Body’ (Margaret Shildrick PI, Deborah Lynn Steinberg Co-I and Azrini Wahadin Co-I).