Sociology of Health & Illness

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociology of Health & Illness is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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The deadly intersections of COVID‐19. Race, states, inequalities and global society. By SuneraThobani (Ed.), Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2022. 176 pages. £47.99 (hardcover); £16,99 (ePub). ISBN39
Commodities of Care: The business of HIV testing in China. By Elsa L.Fan, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2021. pp. 216. $100 (clo). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐0764‐8; $25 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐51737
Thanks to Reviewers – October 2021 to September 202232
Reconfiguring Vulnerability and Dis/Ability: An Agential Realist Exploration to Disentangle Vulnerability Effects in Austria's COVID‐19 Response30
Racialised Immigrant Health: The Association Between Previous Documentation Status and Self‐Reported Health Among Immigrants With Lawful Permanent Resident Status29
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The power of family? Family social capital and the risk of externalising behaviours among youth with multiple childhood adversities24
Undoing motherhood: Collaborative reproduction and the deinstitutionalization of U.S. maternity. By K.Johnson, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. 2023. pp. 204. $28.95 (pbk); $150 (hbk); $28.95 (eb23
Patient‐activist or ally? Assessing the effectiveness of conscience and beneficiary constituents in disease advocacy fundraising21
Pregnancy and new motherhood in prison. By L.Baldwin and L.Abbot, Bristol: Bristol University Press and Policy Press. 2024. pp. 208. £47.99 (hbk); £16.99 (ebk). ISBN: 978‐144736339221
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COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities20
‘Improving the odds for everybody’: Narrative and media in stem cell donor recruitment patient appeals, and the work to redress racial inequity20
Non‐binary genders: Navigating communities, identities, and healthcare. By BenVincent, Bristol: Policy Press. 2020. pp. 250. £26.99 (pbk); £79.99 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐144735192418
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Cabin fever: Surviving lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic. By PaulCrawford and Jamie OrionCrawford, Bingley: Emerald Publishing. 2021. pp. 152. £16.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐80071‐355‐017
The needle pricking and two modes of ‘doing good’ in the Swedish school‐based human papillomavirus vaccination programme17
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Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism. By L.Diedrich, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 150 pp. $10 (paperback); $4.95 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐45297122‐316
Transitions in and out of Loneliness During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Latent Class Analysis of Older Adults in England15
Can a disability studies‐medical sociology rapprochement help re‐value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation?15
Data driven or data informed? How general practitioners use data to evaluate their own and colleagues’ clinical work in clusters15
Disentangling Responsibility: Perspectives on Dementia Prevention From Stakeholders in Canada, Germany and Switzerland15
Misunderstood, Minimised, Misrepresented: Autistic Young Adults' Experiences of Epistemic Injustices in Healthcare Interactions Around Autism15
Conceptualising Lived Experience in Mental Health Research: Problems, Insights and Implications15
Passive tolerance and productive uncertainties in food allergy immunotherapy biomedical practices15
1845 or 2023? Friedrich Engels’s insights into the health effects of Victorian‐era and contemporary Canadian capitalism15
The Golden Ticket? Widening Access in UK Medicine and the Making of an Emotional Proletariat14
Navigating Dementia: Political Materialities of Public Transport in the All‐Ageing Metropolis14
From Cells to Organoids: Sociological Considerations for the Bioengineering of Human Models14
Misophonia matters: A case study of the role of brain imaging in debates over new diagnoses14
Coordinating the Medical Division of Labour: The Travails of Electronic Patient Records in the United Kingdom and United States14
Let ‘Pregnant Women Choose the Destiny for Themselves and Their Child’. How Fertility Clinic Digital Platforms Frame Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) in Spain14
Temporal Attunements of Care: Scrutinising Counselling Practices in the Context of Prenatal Testing and Abortion14
The Political Sociology of NICE: Investigating Pharmaceutical Cost‐Effectiveness Regulation in the UK14
Food allergy advocacy: Parenting and the politics of care. By DanyaGlabau, University of Minnesota Press. 2022. pp. 288. $24.95 (pbk); $100.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐1055‐6 (hc), ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐10513
All that was not her. By ToddMeyers, Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2022. pp. 231. $99.95 (clo); $25.95 (pbk); $24.65 (ebk). Paper ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐1789‐9; Cloth ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐1527‐713
Countering ‘the moral science of biopolitics’: Understanding hepatitis C treatment ‘non‐compliance’ in the antiviral era13
Inequality, Trust and Fear: Migrant Healthcare During the COVID‐19 Pandemic and Beyond13
The myth of the wrong body. By M.Missé, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2022. pp. 142. $50 (Cloth); $16.99 (pbk); $12.45 (ebk)12
Reverse Healthism and Antiscience Healthism: New Modes of Healthism in the Misinformation and COVID‐19 Era12
Shifting Expectations of Novel Immunotherapy Treatments in Oncology: Practitioners' and Patients' Calibration Work in Conditions of Uncertainty12
COVID‐19 & shame: Political emotions & public health in the UK. By F.Cooper, L.Dolezal, and A.Rose, London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2023. pp. 160. £45 (hbk); £14.99 (pbk); Open access (ebk). IS12
I am what I am?—An integrative review of understandings of ‘health identity’ and ‘illness identity’ in scientific literature12
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Feminist mental health activism in England c. 1968–95. By K.Mahoney, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2023. pp. 280. £85.00 (cloth), £85.00 (ebk). ISBN: 978152616226711
Regulating diagnosis—Molecular and regulatory sub‐stratifications of lung cancer treatment11
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Sickening: Anti‐black racism and health disparities in the United States. By AnnePollock, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2021. pp. 202. $88.00 (clo); $21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐1172‐011
The effects of disappearing social safety nets on inequalities in health11
Reproductive injustice: Racism, pregnancy and premature birth. By Dána‐AinDavis, New York: New York University Press. 2019. pp. 251. $89 (clo); $30 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐4798‐5357‐111
Fitting the facts of crime: An invitation to biopsychosocial criminology. By C.Posick, M.Rocque, J. C.Barnes, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. 2022. pp. 160. $99.50 (hardcover), $29.99 (pbk), $211
Sustaining relational subjectivity: The experience of women with dementia10
COVID companions: Exploring pets as social support10
The practice of participatory action research: Complicity, power and prestige in dialogue with the ‘racialised mad’10
The challenges of coeliac disease at work: A contestation of the politics of inclusion10
“Am I in ‘Suboptimal Health’?”: The Narratives and Rhetoric in Carving out the Grey Area Between Health and Illness in Everyday Life10
The importance of rhythms for maintaining consent in diagnostic encounters to detect cervical cancer10
Where Are the Irish in Research on Ethnic Health Inequalities in Britain? A State‐Of‐The‐Art Literature Review10
Reconciling healthism and techno‐solutionism: An observational study of a digital mental health trial9
Proper distance in the age of social distancing: Hepatitis C treatment, telehealth and questions of care and responsibility9
Biographical Discovery, Affirmation, and Disruption: Trans and Nonbinary Peoples' Experiences Negotiating Gender and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome9
From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico9
Challenging Health Citizenship: Digital Health Engagement Among the Oldest Age Groups9
Non‐Directiveness and Authenticity in the Predictive Genetic Clinic9
The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–20229
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Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction9
Rethinking ‘Strengths’ in Youth Health Research9
The Sociology of Diagnosis Index9
(Re)considering Discourses of Risk and Responsibility Through the Lens of Healthism: Interpreting the International Response to a Global Health Strategy for Noncommunicable Diseases8
Navigating the uncertainties of next‐generation sequencing in the genetics clinic8
Trust in the system: Research Ethics Committees and the regulation of biomedical research. By AdamHedgecoe, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2020. pp. 224. £85 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐528
Medical humanities and disability studies: In/disciplines.. Series: Critical interventions in the medical and health humanities. By S.Murray, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2023. pp. 134. £45.00 8
Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity8
Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female. By S.King, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. 240pp. £80 (cloth), £19.99 (pbk), £19.99 (ebk). ISBN 978‐1‐44‐737163‐28
Devaluation and Revaluation as Dynamic Social Processes: The Case of Psychedelic Stigma8
Complicity: Methodologies of power, politics and the ethics of knowledge production8
What Makes a Sexually Transmitted Infection? Discrepant Frames in United States Mpox Discourse and Public Health Response8
Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them. By D. M.Tober, New York: Routledge, 2024. 326 pp. £121.50 (hardcover); £14.39 (paperback); £14.39 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐258
The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far. By S.O'Sullivan, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2025. 304 pp. £22 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐39‐981963‐38
Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection. By J.Jayawickrama and J.Wright, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 149 pp. €129.99 (hbk); €106.99 (ebk). ISBN 978‐3‐031‐78257‐27
Be the mother, not the daughter: Immigrant Chinese women, postpartum care knowledge, and mothering autonomy7
Aiming at the ‘proper’ body: How exoskeletons foster ‘risky’ bodies and conflicting knowledge regimes7
Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance7
Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity7
The long tail of COVID and the tale of long COVID: Diagnostic construction and the management of ignorance7
Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID7
E‐consultation as existential media: Exploring doctor‐patient ‘digital thrownness’ in Danish general practice7
Screening out: HIV testing and the Canadian immigration experience. By L.Bisaillon, Vancouver: UBC Press. 2022. pp. 304. CAD $89.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780774867474; CAD $32.95 (pbk). ISBN: 9780774867481;7
Health behaviours and COVID‐19 prevention among immigrants in the United States7
Anything but Endo: Diagnostic Buck‐Passing in Endometriosis Diagnosis6
‘You’re just a Guinea pig’: Exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long COVID‐19: A view from the undiagnosed6
Buying Time: Incurable Prognosis, Temporal Uncertainty and the Costs of Metastatic Breast Cancer6
From Biographical Disruption to Oscillation: Exploring Illness Identity Tensions Among Young Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in China6
Changes of heart: Debating the role of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India, 1948–19686
The Role of Algorithms in Molecular Tumour Boards—Managing the Gap Between Research and Clinic in Precision Medicine6
Correction to ‘Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction’6
Childhood social capital and drug use disorder in adulthood: A retrospective study on antecedent determinants of the type of drug use6
Providing Hope or Assigning Blame? Healthism in Print Media Portrayals of Dementia Risk and Responsibility6
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences6
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Health Effects of Interpersonal and Structural Discrimination on Minority Groups in Europe6
Knowledge, community and care: Digital biocitizenship in gestational diabetes6
Negotiating Care: The Biographical Narratives of Young Adults Who Questioned Their Gender When Younger6
Immunitary Life in COVID‐19 Times: Understandings, Practices and Experiences Among Members of Marginalised Social Groups6
Digital Primary Care Services, Procedural Justice and Intersectionality: A Critical Realist Approach6
Disparities in Urban Health: The Wounds of Policies and Legal DoctrinesBy Edward V.Wallace: John Hopkins Press, 2024. 194 pp. $38.95 (paperback). ISBN: 97814214456946
Current challenges for doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, reprofessionalisation or fragmentation?6
At the Right Time: Temporal Precision in Personalised Medicine5
Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review5
Eating disorders in public discourse: Exploring media representations and lived experiences. By A.Cariola Laura (Ed.), Liverpool: University of Exeter Press. 2023. pp. 362. $106 (hardcover). ISBN: 9785
Recognition and Risk: Ethnic Monitoring, Healthcare Access and Everyday Discrimination in Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities in the UK5
Empowerment or Control? Social Capital and Maternal Health Practices in Rural Ethiopia5
Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post‐COVID Syndrome in Brazil5
Emotion work and emotional labour, neglected facets of parental health information work. Analysing mothers of neurodivergent children5
Gut Healthism: The Penetrating Gaze and Depoliticising Forces of Direct‐to‐Consumer Microbiome Testing Kits5
Proposing a new history of grief’s medicalisation: A critical discourse analysis5
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people5
Abortion ecologies in Southern African fiction: Transforming reproductive agency. By Caitlin E.Stobie, Bloomsbury. 2023. £85.00 (cloth); £28.99 (pbk); £76.50 (ebk). ISBN: 97813502501925
For better or worse: Governing healthcare organisations in times of financial distress5
Curating ‘the good story’: Care as representative performance in Danish veteran rehabilitation5
Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity. An intersectional approach5
Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework5
Building and Boosting Capitals for Health Care Access: A Qualitative Study of Homeless Health Peer Advocacy in London, UK5
Deus Ex Machina: An Ethnographic Exploration of Technology, Death and Decision‐Making in Respiratory Care5
‘I just wanted a change, a positive change’: Locating hope for young people engaged with residential alcohol and drug services in Victoria, Australia5
When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere5
Explaining mental illness: Sociological perspectives. By B.Brossard, A.Chandler, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2022. pp. 198. $139.95 (cloth); $42.95 (pbk); $42.95 (ebk). ISBN: 978‐15292150695
Imaginaries of the data‐driven hospital in a time of crisis5
The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice5
Young adults’ experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long COVID5
Introduction to special issue: New dialogues between medical sociology and disability studies5
‘Staying in the lane’ of public health? Boundary‐work in the roles of state health officials and experts in COVID‐19 policymaking5
Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority5
Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools5
The intensification of parenting and generational fracturing of spontaneous physical activity from childhood play in the United Kingdom4
Neoliberal Governance and Agribusiness Influence: Public Health Policymaking and the Risk to Meatpacking Workers During COVID‐194
Gender Segregation in Medicine: The Impact of Stereotypes on Speciality Perceptions and Choices4
Social support for the chronically ill during lockdown. Qualitative research in the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Care Deliberations of Family Carers of People Living With Dementia—Applying an Affective‐Discursive Practices Approach4
Transformed States: Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990–2020. By M.Halliwell, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2025. 380 pp. $99.85 (hardcover) ISBN: 978‐1‐97881787‐64
Towards an ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: Practising beyond the biopsychosocial model4
Between epistemic injustice and therapeutic jurisprudence: Coronial processes involving families of autistic people, people with learning disabilities and/or mental ill health4
Theorising health equity research for people with intersex variance through new materialism4
Unequal Health: Anti‐Black Racism and the Threat to America's Health By L. A.Penner, J. F.Dovidio, N.Hagiwara and B. D.Smedley, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 352 pp. £26.99 (hardback); 4
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Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities. By L.Olsen, New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 312 pp. $140 (hard); $35 (pbk); $34.99 (ebk). ISBN: 978‐0‐23‐120787‐44
Training the ageing bodies: New knowledge paradigms and professional practices in elderly care4
Capturing the smile: Exploring embodied and social acts of smiling4
Caring is Sharing? Couples Navigating Parental Leave at the Transition to Parenthood. By K.Twamley, London: UCL Press, 2024. 266 pp. £25.00 (paperback); £45.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐80008‐743‐94
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Freezing Fertility: Oocyte cryopreservation and the gender politics of ageing. By Lucyvan deWiel, New York: New York University Press. 2020. 344 pages. $99.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). ISBN‐13: 978‐1474
Emotional Reflexivity and Lifelong Leisure Time Physical Activity: Managing ‘Successful Womanhood’ for Busy Middle‐Class Women4
Mothers, milk and mourning: The meanings of breast milk after loss of an infant4
Hearts in their hands—Physicians’ gestures embodying shared professional knowledge around the world4
Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Expanding Understandings of Nonreligious Wellbeing3
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The challenge of controlling COVID‐19: Public health and social care policy in England during the first wave. By J.Lewis, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2023. pp. 117. £7.99. ISBN: 978‐14473625173
When the Place of Care Is Hybrid: An Ethnographic Study of Hospital Video Consultations3
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Multimorbidity as chronic crisis: ‘Living on’ with multiple long‐term health conditions in a socially disadvantaged London borough3
Making health public: A manifesto for a new social contract. By P.Littlejohns, D. J.Hunter, A.Weale, J.Johnson, and T.Khatun, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024. pp. 120. £40 (hbk); £14.99 (ebook3
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‘Not in it for huge profits but because it’s right’: The contested moral economies of UK–India exports in health worker education and training3
Practising care in a pandemic: Accounting for everyday life during COVID‐19 among people who inject drugs3
Standardising care of the dying: An ethnographic analysis of the Liverpool Care Pathway in England and the Netherlands3
Stigma, Scarcity and the Price of Legitimacy: Chronic Pain Advocacy and the Politics of Pharmaceutical Partnerships in Canada3
Interracial romance and health: Bridging generations, race relations, and well‐being. By ByronMiller, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books. 2022. pp. 156. £35.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9783
UK national newspapers’ representation of cancer patients and their care during the early part of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Invoking and undermining solidarity?3
How a ‘good parent’ decides on childhood vaccination. Demonstrating independence and deliberation during Dutch healthcare visits3
The historical sociology of medicine in India: Introduction to the special section3
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Negotiating Care and Control: Women's Experiences of Two Harm Reduction Services in Copenhagen3
Struggling, helping and adapting: Crowdfunding motivations and outcomes during the early US COVID‐19 pandemic3
The challenge of institutionalised complicity: Researching the pharmaceutical industry in the era of impact and engagement3
Ageing and New Intimacies: Gender, Sexuality and Temporality in an English Salsa Scene. By S.Milton, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. 152 pp. £85.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐52616806‐13
Domestication as Stabilisation: Exploring the Incorporation of Social Technology by Older Adults and Their Relatives3
Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, A. Bingley, Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022. pp. 168. £65.00 (hardback). ISBN: 97818007174423
Remaking critical care: Place, body work and the materialities of care in the COVID intensive care unit3
The social life of natural experiments in epidemiology and public health3
Dipping Into the Pool of Creative Ethnography—A Joint Review3
Illness–Care and Validation‐Dependency in the Diagnostic Model for Trans Healthcare: Ambivalent Epistemic Consequences in Japan's Evolving Medical Framework3
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Northern exposure: COVID‐19 and regional inequalities in health and wealth. By C.Bambra, L.Munford, S.Khavandi, and N.Bennett, Bristol: Policy Press. 2023. pp. 156. £35.00 (clo) or open access (ebk). 3
‘When all you have is a hammer, everything has to be a nail’: Managing diagnostic uncertainty in urinary tract infection3
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Disorder or difference? How clinician‐patient interaction and patient age shape the process and meaning of autism diagnosis3
Food (in)Security and Peripartum Health in Marginalised Neighbourhoods in Denmark: Intersectional and Biopsychosocial Perspectives From Birthing Parents and Care Workers3
Extending the sociology of candidacy: Bourdieu’s relational social class and mid‐life women’s perceptions of alcohol‐related breast cancer risk3
Reflections on Healthism and Medicalization 45 Years Later2
The (radical) role of belonging in shifting and expanding understandings of social inclusion for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities2
Digital Futures in an Ageing Society: Frontline Perspectives on Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Swedish Eldercare2
The paramedic at work: A sociology of a new profession. By McCannL., Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. pp. 272. £32.49 (hbk). ISBN 978‐0‐19‐881636‐22
Abortion Trail Activism: The Global Infrastructures for Abortion Access. By D.Duffy, London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 224 pp. £45.50 (hbk). £15.39 (pbk). ISBN: 97‐8‐13‐5024699‐72
The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two‐generational, longitudinal approach2
Taking after a parent: Phenotypic resemblance and the professional familialisation of genomics2
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‘Come on, Give Me the Pills Now’: A Narrative Analysis of Reproductive Agency in Self‐Managed Abortion in Argentina2
Doctor sahab: Doctors and the public in the ‘golden era’ of the Indian medical profession2
Talking cervixes: How times materialise during the first stage of labour2
The Biomedical Empire: Lessons learned from the COVID‐19 pandemic. By B. K.Rothman, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2021. pp. 164. $14.00 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐5036‐2881‐62
Like clockwork? (Re)imagining rhythms and routines when living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)2
Retheorising ‘Risky’ Play in a Global Context: Addressing the Safety Needs of Refugee and Displaced Families2
Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective. By A.Whitehead, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 128 pp. £14.99 (paperback); £45.00 (hardback); £13.49 (e‐book). ISBN: 135019218X, 97813501921882
The Folk Sociological Imagination: Manufacturing Agency Through Smoking Among Chinese Adolescents2
A Bourdieusian Approach to the Demobilisation of Brazil's AIDS Movement2
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The Tensions Between Hidden Work and Hiding Work for Care Workers in Residential Aged Care2
Decision‐making as discovery: Vetting clinical research in a leading precision oncology service2
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Stigma, mental illness & ethnicity: Time to centre racism and structural stigma2
Navigating Pandemic Hardships: Experiences of Food Insecurity in Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adults in Canada2
Health‐care activism: Markets, morals, & the collective good. By SusiGeiger, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. pp. 235. £65 (hbk). ISBN: 97801988652232
Medicalising agents? Teachers’ uncertainty and emerging expertise in the age of inclusion policy and medicalisation in Israel2
A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare State? Care work, gender equality and welfare state sustainability. By L. L.Hansen, H. M.Dahl, and L.Horn (Eds.), Bristol: Policy Press. 2022. pp. 218. GBP 85.00 (h2
Gut Anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes. By A.Benezra, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. 266 pages (pbk). £21.99. ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐0130 (pbk); £90. ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐0129‐5 2
Disease surveillance infrastructure and the economisation of public health2
Chronic Illness and Matters of Care in Pandemic Times: The Experiences of Women in Aotearoa New Zealand2
The Choreography of Familial Bargaining: A Qualitative Study of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) Negotiation in China2
Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century. By R.Elder and T.Schlich (eds.), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025. 264 pp. £90.00 (hardback), £79.00 (ebook). ISBN: 2
The promise of artificial intelligence in health: Portrayals of emerging healthcare technologies2
Diagnosing by anticipation: Coordinating patient trajectories within and across social systems2
Institutional, humane, therapeutic: Towards an understanding of caregiver violence through third sector violence prevention discourse in Finland2
The NHS at 75: The state of UK health policy. By M.Exworthy, R.Mannion, and M.Powell, Bristol: Policy Press. 2023. pp. 294. £27.99. ISBN: 978‐14473686012
Social Capital and Cultural Health Capital in Primary Care: The Case of Group Medical Visits2
Cocooning Nurse Autonomy in Türkiye: Navigating a Path to Professionalism That Does Not Challenge Medical Dominance2
Assemblages of Cancer: Experiences and Contexts of Breast Cancer in the UK, France and Italy by CinziaGreco, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025. 224 pp. £25.00. ISBN: 97815261714432
When medicine goes awry: Cases in medically caused suffering and death. By JuanneNancarrow Clarke, 1st ed., Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2022. pp. 1–303. ISBN: 978‐1‐4875‐2581‐12
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Health Messaging in Menstrual Product Marketing on Social Media: Neoliberalism and Normalisation2
Elite class self‐interest, socioeconomic inequality and U.S. population health2
Good Intentions in Global Health: Medical Missions, Emotion, and Health Care Across Borders By N. S.Berry, New York: New York University Press, 2024. 200 pp. $89.00 (cloth) $30.00 (pbk) $30.00 (ebk). 1
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Understanding grief and care at end of life1
Constrained Choices: Navigating Agency and Social Structures in Sperm Donor Selection1
The quest for sexual health: How an elusive ideal has transformed science, politics, and everyday life. By StevenEpstein, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2022. 400 pages. ISBN: 97802268181461
Motherhood: Contemporary transitions and generational change. By T.Miller, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024. pp. 187. £22.99 (hbk). ISBN: 97810094133121
Detecting value(s): Digital biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and the valuation of new diagnostic technologies1
Constituting link working through choice and care: An ethnographic account of front‐line social prescribing1
The Moral Force of Guidelines: How Surgeons Use Evidence‐Based Medicine to Curb Their Interventionism1
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Nurturing futures through the maternal microbiome1
Bringing the group back in: Social class and resistance in adolescent smoking1
An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo. By R. M.Niehuus, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023. 201 pp. $102.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paperback); $26.95 (e1
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