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The purpose of MedSoc is to facilitate communication among members of the Medical Sociology Section. We envision the list as including such things as:

1) Requests for research sources, and responses to those requests
2) Requests for teaching materials, and responses to those requests
3) Ongoing discussions of research
4) Ongoing discussions of teaching
5) Posting of information, such as upcoming conferences, funding
opportunities, and outlets for publication
6) Posting of significant news items, such as health policy issues,
affecting medical sociology
7) Discussion of activities of the Medical Sociology Section

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Dear members of the Medical Sociology listserv:

We have switched our listserv to Brown University because Communications for a Sustainable Future will be ceasing operation in September. We are grateful to them for their support over these years. And we thank Computing and Information Services at Brown University for hosting our new listserv.

The new list is still named MEDSOC and the subscriber list has been transferred intact. Information on how to post to the list is below.  This information also will be found at the bottom of every message or digest you receive from the list:

--Postings to the lists are sent to medsoc@listserv.brown.edu   (note: there is no "e" in "listserv")

--E-mail commands to manage your subscription are sent to listserv@listserv.brown.edu

--A website for viewing messages in the archive or changing your subscription can be found at:   http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/medsoc.html

--If you have any problems please report them to: medsoc-request@listserv.brown.edu

MEDSOC is an unmoderated list. That means that any message sent to the list will automatically be sent to all current members of the list.  Be sure to check that you wish your message to be read by the global community before sending it across the ether, and please try to limit each post to short messages. Many subscribers will simply take themselves off the list if much garbage comes across it, and our purpose will be defeated.  Others will wish to read and participate in certain parts of the discussions.  For these reasons, several guidelines MUST be strictly observed if this effort is going to be successful:

1. Do not post anything that is of interest to only a few individuals whom you could e-mail directly.
2. Always use an explicit, informative subject line
3. Never engage in personal attacks or flaming on the list.
4. Do post items of broad interest to subscribers. Please do respect all users who do not want their mailboxes cluttered.
5. Do not reply to other people’s postings by hitting your “reply” button.  It clutters up the list if you include the entire original message.  It is better to write something like, “In responses to Jane Smith’s query on environmental sociology films,” and to put in the subject line a succinct subject, e.g.  “query on films,” “research on pesticides.”
6. Do not paste entire articles from a newspaper or website. Instead, mention that there is an interesting article and give the location for people to find it.

David Bott will continue to manage the listserv.

Thanks for being part of our listserv community.

Phil Brown and David Bott

 
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David Bott                      david.m.bott@dartmouth.edu