We are delighted to announce that the shortlisted books for the FSHI Prize 2018 are Amy Chandler for Self-Injury, Medicine and Society: Authentic Bodies, Lynn Tang for Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality and finally Gareth M. Thomas for Down’s Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics.

The Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness (FSHI) Book Prize of £1,000 is awarded annually each September to the author or editor of the book judged to have made the most significant contribution to medical sociology or the sociology of health and illness.

The winner will be announced at the BSA Medical Sociology Conference dinner on 13 September at the City Chambers, Glasgow.