Volume 2 Issue 2 November 2007 Liverpool University Editorial Team: Helen Bromley, Sara Edwards, Paul Harrison, Julia Hiscock, Suzanne Hodge, Paula Hodgson, Mona Killey, Jude Robinson, Clare Thetford Medical Sociology online University of Liverpool MSo@liv.ac.uk http://www.medicalsociologyonline.org/ A free access publication of the British Sociological Association