Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 08:39:40 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199708051239.IAA13283@brown.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
To: medsoc@csf.colorado.edu
From: Phil_Brown@brown.edu (Phil Brown)
Subject: Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine 
Call for Papers

Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine
A CELEBRATION OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SOL LEVINE

Guest editor, Phil Brown (Department of Sociology, Brown University), with 
the assistance of an editorial committee of colleagues of Sol Levine


Sol Levine, who died in 1996 was a central figure, a major educator, and a 
great citizen in medical sociology.   He was chosen in 1986 for the honor of 
the Medical Sociology Section's Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished 
Contributions to Medical Sociology.  This Special Issue of Social Science 
and Medicine will provide a fitting remembrance of Sol Levine's 
contributions in stress and health, heart disease, the experience of 
illness, quality of life, medical education, the changing nature of the 
medical profession, organizational structure and innovation in health 
organizations, community level factors in health status, and social 
inequality and health.

It is expected that papers will cover the above-mentioned topics.   Papers 
will include two types:
1) Papers that explicate the contributions of Sol Levine in the various 
research areas he was involved with over his life.
2) Papers that utilize frameworks, theories, and approaches that Sol Levine 
developed.
Some of the papers may be revisions of presentations made at several venues: 
 1) a memorial session at the 1997 American Sociological Association 
Meeting, 2) the first annual Sol Levine Memorial Lecture to be given at the 
Harvard School of Public Health, and 3) a symposium on Sol Levine's 
contributions to be held at The Health Institute at New England Medical Center.
Deadline for submission of articles is January 15, 1998.  In order to avoid 
duplication of topics, people should notify the guest editor by October 15 
about the topic of the paper they intend to submit.  The Special Issue is on 
an accelerated time schedule, with an expected fall 1998 publication, so 
that Sol Levine's memory will be honored as soon as possible.  Therefore it 
is urgent that contributors meet the deadlines. 
Articles will be peer-reviewed.   Please send to Phil Brown, Department of 
Sociology, Brown University, Box 1916, Providence RI 02912. 
There is a very strong likelihood that the contents of the Special Issue 
will be reprinted in a book that will also include some more personal 
appreciations and eulogies, an extended introductory essay, as well as a 
bibliography of Sol Levine's work.

Phil Brown, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Brown University
Box 1916
Providence RI 02912
(401) 863-2633 (secretary 863-2367)
fax (401) 863-3213