Sociology of Health & Illness

Papers
(The TQCC of Sociology of Health & Illness is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Excitable models: Projections, targets, and the making of futures without disease104
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: 978‐1‐51769
The power of family? Family social capital and the risk of externalising behaviours among youth with multiple childhood adversities58
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). ISBN33
Thanks to Reviewers – October 2021 to September 202230
Body Odor and Biopolitics: Characterizing Smell in Neoliberal America27
Against All Odds. Psychosocial Distress and Healing Among Women. 1st edMahimaNayarNew Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd. 2019. 237 pp. ISBN: 978935328192225
‘Improving the odds for everybody’: Narrative and media in stem cell donor recruitment patient appeals, and the work to redress racial inequity24
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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 (eb22
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
Patient‐activist or ally? Assessing the effectiveness of conscience and beneficiary constituents in disease advocacy fundraising20
Trust, affect, and choice in parents’ vaccination decision‐making and health‐care provider selection in Switzerland19
Reconfiguring Vulnerability and Dis/Ability: An Agential Realist Exploration to Disentangle Vulnerability Effects in Austria's COVID‐19 Response19
Experiential knowledge in mental health services: Analysing the enactment of expertise in peer support18
COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities18
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The Normalization of the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in South Africa. Katinkade Wet. London: Routledge, 2019. 170 pp £120 (cloth) £36.99 (pbk) £33.29 (ebk) ISBN 9780367193553.17
Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South17
The Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System17
Non‐binary genders: Navigating communities, identities, and healthcare. By BenVincent, Bristol: Policy Press. 2020. pp. 250. £26.99 (pbk); £79.99 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐144735192417
The needle pricking and two modes of ‘doing good’ in the Swedish school‐based human papillomavirus vaccination programme16
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Navigating Dementia: Political Materialities of Public Transport in the All‐Ageing Metropolis15
Social vulnerability and the impact of policy responses to COVID‐19 on disabled people15
The medicalisation of everyday life: A critical perspective15
Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to PARP inhibitors15
Cabin fever: Surviving lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic. By PaulCrawford and Jamie OrionCrawford, Bingley: Emerald Publishing. 2021. pp. 152. £16.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐80071‐355‐015
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism. By L.Diedrich, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 150 pp. $10 (paperback); $4.95 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐45297122‐315
New Editorial Team14
Passive tolerance and productive uncertainties in food allergy immunotherapy biomedical practices14
The Political Sociology of NICE: Investigating Pharmaceutical Cost‐Effectiveness Regulation in the UK14
When biographical disruption meets HIV exceptionalism: Reshaping illness identities in the shadow of criminalization13
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The global governance of pandemics13
Data driven or data informed? How general practitioners use data to evaluate their own and colleagues’ clinical work in clusters13
1845 or 2023? Friedrich Engels’s insights into the health effects of Victorian‐era and contemporary Canadian capitalism13
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging12
Conceptualising Lived Experience in Mental Health Research: Problems, Insights and Implications12
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: 978‐1‐4780‐1527‐712
Can a disability studies‐medical sociology rapprochement help re‐value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation?12
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I am what I am?—An integrative review of understandings of ‘health identity’ and ‘illness identity’ in scientific literature11
From Cells to Organoids: Sociological Considerations for the Bioengineering of Human Models11
Hope: The Dream We Carry (2021)11
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: 978‐1‐5179‐10511
The Golden Ticket? Widening Access in UK Medicine and the Making of an Emotional Proletariat11
Frying eggs or making a treatment plan? Frictions between different modes of caring in a community mental health team11
Countering ‘the moral science of biopolitics’: Understanding hepatitis C treatment ‘non‐compliance’ in the antiviral era11
Let ‘Pregnant Women Choose the Destiny for Themselves and Their Child’. How Fertility Clinic Digital Platforms Frame Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) in Spain11
The practice of participatory action research: Complicity, power and prestige in dialogue with the ‘racialised mad’10
Misophonia matters: A case study of the role of brain imaging in debates over new diagnoses10
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). IS10
Extreme weight loss: Life before and after bariatric surgery10
The myth of the wrong body. By M.Missé, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2022. pp. 142. $50 (Cloth); $16.99 (pbk); $12.45 (ebk)10
Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction10
Using social media as a platform to publicly disclose HIV status among people living with HIV: Control, identity, informing public dialogue10
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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), $210
Proper distance in the age of social distancing: Hepatitis C treatment, telehealth and questions of care and responsibility10
Reconciling healthism and techno‐solutionism: An observational study of a digital mental health trial10
The importance of rhythms for maintaining consent in diagnostic encounters to detect cervical cancer10
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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: 978‐1‐5179‐1172‐09
The effects of disappearing social safety nets on inequalities in health9
Reproductive injustice: Racism, pregnancy and premature birth. By Dána‐AinDavis, New York: New York University Press. 2019. pp. 251. $89 (clo); $30 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐4798‐5357‐19
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: 97815261622679
The muddle of institutional racism in mental health9
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Re‐ordering connections: UK healthcare workers' experiences of emotion management during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
COVID companions: Exploring pets as social support8
Regulating diagnosis—Molecular and regulatory sub‐stratifications of lung cancer treatment8
Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries8
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Routes into the homeopathic profession: Witnessing, gender and subaltern therapeutics8
Where Are the Irish in Research on Ethnic Health Inequalities in Britain? A State‐Of‐The‐Art Literature Review8
Sitting as a moral practice: Older adults’ accounts from qualitative interviews on sedentary behaviours8
“Am I in ‘Suboptimal Health’?”: The Narratives and Rhetoric in Carving out the Grey Area Between Health and Illness in Everyday Life8
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The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–20228
The challenges of coeliac disease at work: A contestation of the politics of inclusion8
Sustaining relational subjectivity: The experience of women with dementia8
From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico8
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
The Sociology of Diagnosis Index8
Health behaviours and COVID‐19 prevention among immigrants in the United States7
Complicity: Methodologies of power, politics and the ethics of knowledge production7
Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of ‘competent’ parenting: A qualitative analysis7
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
Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity7
Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: Patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing7
The evening of life: The challenges of ageing and dying wellJoseph E.DavisPaulScherzUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 2020. 191pp £66 (hbk) £25.63 (pbk) £20.30 (ebk) ISBN 978‐0‐268‐10802‐17
'Just have some IVF!': A longitudinal ethnographic study of couples' experiences of seeking fertility treatment7
Navigating the uncertainties of next‐generation sequencing in the genetics clinic7
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Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance6
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Emotional labour as a vehicle of organisational change in maternity care: The case of Russian doulas' institutional work6
Body mass index is just a number: Conflating riskiness and unhealthiness in discourse on body size6
Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity6
Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools6
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 6
Researching the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations: Complicity, oppression and resistance6
Precision patients: Selection practices and moral pathfinding in experimental oncology6
Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study6
Be the mother, not the daughter: Immigrant Chinese women, postpartum care knowledge, and mothering autonomy6
The long tail of COVID and the tale of long COVID: Diagnostic construction and the management of ignorance6
E‐consultation as existential media: Exploring doctor‐patient ‘digital thrownness’ in Danish general practice6
Aiming at the ‘proper’ body: How exoskeletons foster ‘risky’ bodies and conflicting knowledge regimes6
Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID6
Changes of heart: Debating the role of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India, 1948–19686
The social meanings of PrEP use – A mixed‐method study of PrEP use disclosure in Antwerp and Amsterdam6
Divided bodies: Lyme disease, contested illness and evidence‐based medicine6
When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere5
How companions speak on patients’ behalf without undermining their autonomy: Findings from a conversation analytic study of palliative care consultations5
Subordinated agency: Negotiating the biomedicalisation of masculinity among gay men living with HIV5
Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the StatePetrUrbanLizzieWard (eds.) Cham, Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. 318pp. £79.99 (hbk) £54.99 (pbk) £63.99 (ebk) ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐41436‐85
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people5
Current challenges for doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, reprofessionalisation or fragmentation?5
Negotiating Care: The Biographical Narratives of Young Adults Who Questioned Their Gender When Younger5
Disparities in Urban Health: The Wounds of Policies and Legal DoctrinesBy Edward V.Wallace: John Hopkins Press, 2024. 194 pp. $38.95 (paperback). ISBN: 97814214456945
Childhood social capital and drug use disorder in adulthood: A retrospective study on antecedent determinants of the type of drug use5
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‘Black African’ identification and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Britain: A site for sociological, ethical and policy debate5
Correction to ‘Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction’5
‘You’re just a Guinea pig’: Exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long COVID‐19: A view from the undiagnosed5
Proposing a new history of grief’s medicalisation: A critical discourse analysis5
Transforming Health Care with Qualitative Research5
Young onset Parkinson’s disease: Biographical disruption as a repetitive process5
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Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review5
Curating ‘the good story’: Care as representative performance in Danish veteran rehabilitation4
Disorder or difference? How clinician‐patient interaction and patient age shape the process and meaning of autism diagnosis4
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Paragons, Mavericks and Innovators—A typology of orthopaedic surgeons' professional identities. A comparative case study of evidence‐based practice4
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: 9784
At the limits of “capability”: The sexual and reproductive health of women migrant workers in Malaysia4
Epistemic in/justice in patient participation. A discourse analysis of the Dutch ME/CFS Health Council advisory process4
Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority4
Taking Care of Our Own: When Family Caregivers Do Medical Work4
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences4
Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework4
Edgework, institutions and enhanced interrogation4
‘Staying in the lane’ of public health? Boundary‐work in the roles of state health officials and experts in COVID‐19 policymaking4
Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity. An intersectional approach4
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
Capturing the smile: Exploring embodied and social acts of smiling4
‘I just wanted a change, a positive change’: Locating hope for young people engaged with residential alcohol and drug services in Victoria, Australia4
Theorising health equity research for people with intersex variance through new materialism4
Black knowledges matter: How the suppression of non‐white understandings of dementia harms us all and how we can combat it4
Emotion work and emotional labour, neglected facets of parental health information work. Analysing mothers of neurodivergent children4
Family imaginaries in the disclosure of a blood‐borne virus4
Imaginaries of the data‐driven hospital in a time of crisis4
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: 978‐15292150694
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: 97813502501924
Knowledge, community and care: Digital biocitizenship in gestational diabetes4
Physician dominance in the 21st century: Examining the rise of non‐physician autonomy through prevailing theoretical lenses4
Social support for the chronically ill during lockdown. Qualitative research in the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Hearts in their hands—Physicians’ gestures embodying shared professional knowledge around the world4
Mothers, milk and mourning: The meanings of breast milk after loss of an infant4
‘It's not just to treat everybody the same’: A social justice framework for caring for larger patients in healthcare practice4
Black Lives Matter: Extended Special Section4
The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice4
For better or worse: Governing healthcare organisations in times of financial distress4
Young adults’ experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long COVID4
Divergent spender: State‐societal and meso‐organisational mechanisms in the containment of public spending on pharmaceuticals in a liberal capitalist democracy4
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Introduction to special issue: New dialogues between medical sociology and disability studies4
A Socio‐Criminological Analysis of the HIV Epidemic. B.MeiniDelaware: Vernon Press, 2020. 158pp £33 (cloth) £27 (pbk) £55 (ebk) ISBN: 978‐1‐64889‐054‐34
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