1. Introduction to thematic issue: language policies and health

   • Vaidehi Ramanathan

   EditorialNotes Open access 23 October 2009 Pages: 1 - 7

2. Alise’s small stories: indices of identity construction and of resistance to the discourse of cognitive impairment

   • Iryna Lenchuk
   • Merrill Swain

   Original Paper 22 October 2009 Pages: 9 - 28

3. Institutionalized ghosting: policy contexts and language use in erasing the person with Alzheimer’s

   • Boyd H. Davis
   • Charlene Pope

   Original Paper 22 October 2009 Pages: 29 - 44

4. Languaging for life: African youth talk back to HIV/AIDS research

   • Bonny Norton
   • Harriet Mutonyi

   Original Paper 13 October 2009 Pages: 45 - 63

5. Discursive enactments of the World Health Organization’s policies: Competing cultural models in Tanzanian HIV/AIDS prevention

   • Christina Higgins

   Original Paper 22 October 2009 Pages: 65 - 85

6. ‘So either you have a foetal monitor or you have your waters broken, basically is it?’: Articulating maternity care policy at a midwives’ ante-natal clinic

   • Mary-Pat O’Malley

   Original Paper 10 October 2009 Pages: 87 - 96