Sociology of Health & Illness

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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). ISBN	49
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: 978‐1‐517	39
Thanks to Reviewers – October 2021 to September 2022	35
Reconfiguring Vulnerability and Dis/Ability: An Agential Realist Exploration to Disentangle Vulnerability Effects in Austria's COVID‐19 Response	34
Racialised Immigrant Health: The Association Between Previous Documentation Status and Self‐Reported Health Among Immigrants With Lawful Permanent Resident Status	31
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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 (eb	25
The power of family? Family social capital and the risk of externalising behaviours among youth with multiple childhood adversities	25
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: 978‐1447363392	23
Patient‐activist or ally? Assessing the effectiveness of conscience and beneficiary constituents in disease advocacy fundraising	23
COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities	22
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Doing Gender Justice: Queering Reproduction, Kin, and Care. By S.‐Y. S.Yam and N.Fixmer‐Oraiz, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. 248 pp. $39.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐42‐145113‐8	21
Non‐binary genders: Navigating communities, identities, and healthcare. By BenVincent, Bristol: Policy Press. 2020. pp. 250. £26.99 (pbk); £79.99 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1447351924	20
New Editorial Team	20
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The needle pricking and two modes of ‘doing good’ in the Swedish school‐based human papillomavirus vaccination programme	19
Transitions in and out of Loneliness During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Latent Class Analysis of Older Adults in England	18
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism. By L.Diedrich, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 150 pp. $10 (paperback); $4.95 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐45297122‐3	18
Disentangling Responsibility: Perspectives on Dementia Prevention From Stakeholders in Canada, Germany and Switzerland	17
Passive tolerance and productive uncertainties in food allergy immunotherapy biomedical practices	17
Can a disability studies‐medical sociology rapprochement help re‐value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation?	16
Conceptualising Lived Experience in Mental Health Research: Problems, Insights and Implications	16

Misunderstood, Minimised, Misrepresented: Autistic Young Adults' Experiences of Epistemic Injustices in Healthcare Interactions Around Autism	16
Navigating Dementia: Political Materialities of Public Transport in the All‐Ageing Metropolis	16
1845 or 2023? Friedrich Engels’s insights into the health effects of Victorian‐era and contemporary Canadian capitalism	16
Coordinating the Medical Division of Labour: The Travails of Electronic Patient Records in the United Kingdom and United States	16
Temporal Attunements of Care: Scrutinising Counselling Practices in the Context of Prenatal Testing and Abortion	16
Inequality, Trust and Fear: Migrant Healthcare During the COVID‐19 Pandemic and Beyond	15
Data driven or data informed? How general practitioners use data to evaluate their own and colleagues’ clinical work in clusters	15
Misophonia matters: A case study of the role of brain imaging in debates over new diagnoses	15
The Political Sociology of NICE: Investigating Pharmaceutical Cost‐Effectiveness Regulation in the UK	15
The Lost Generation of Covid‐19. A Critical Analysis of Health and Social Inequality in Post‐Pandemic Britain. By J.Hayre, London: Routledge, 2025. 114 pp. £23.99 (pbk); £52.99 (hbk); £19.19 (ebk). IS	14
Let ‘Pregnant Women Choose the Destiny for Themselves and Their Child’. How Fertility Clinic Digital Platforms Frame Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) in Spain	14
From Cells to Organoids: Sociological Considerations for the Bioengineering of Human Models	14
I am what I am?—An integrative review of understandings of ‘health identity’ and ‘illness identity’ in scientific literature	14
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: 978‐1‐4780‐1527‐7	13
Shifting Expectations of Novel Immunotherapy Treatments in Oncology: Practitioners' and Patients' Calibration Work in Conditions of Uncertainty	13
Countering ‘the moral science of biopolitics’: Understanding hepatitis C treatment ‘non‐compliance’ in the antiviral era	13
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: 978‐1‐5179‐105	13
Reverse Healthism and Antiscience Healthism: New Modes of Healthism in the Misinformation and COVID‐19 Era	13
Reproductive injustice: Racism, pregnancy and premature birth. By Dána‐AinDavis, New York: New York University Press. 2019. pp. 251. $89 (clo); $30 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐4798‐5357‐1	12
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). IS	12
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The Golden Ticket? Widening Access in UK Medicine and the Making of an Emotional Proletariat	12
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Regulating diagnosis—Molecular and regulatory sub‐stratifications of lung cancer treatment	11
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), $2	11
The myth of the wrong body. By M.Missé, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2022. pp. 142. $50 (Cloth); $16.99 (pbk); $12.45 (ebk)	11
Sustaining relational subjectivity: The experience of women with dementia	11
The effects of disappearing social safety nets on inequalities in health	11
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: 9781526162267	11
The importance of rhythms for maintaining consent in diagnostic encounters to detect cervical cancer	11
The challenges of coeliac disease at work: A contestation of the politics of inclusion	11
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: 978‐1‐5179‐1172‐0	11
Where Are the Irish in Research on Ethnic Health Inequalities in Britain? A State‐Of‐The‐Art Literature Review	11
“Am I in ‘Suboptimal Health’?”: The Narratives and Rhetoric in Carving out the Grey Area Between Health and Illness in Everyday Life	11
Non‐Directiveness and Authenticity in the Predictive Genetic Clinic	11
Reconciling healthism and techno‐solutionism: An observational study of a digital mental health trial	10
Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction	10
Rethinking ‘Strengths’ in Youth Health Research	10
Experiences of Health Risks: Prevention, Power Dynamics and Inequalities. By C.Burton‐Jeangros, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 224 pp. £34.99. ISBN‐13: 978‐3031653797	10
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Biographical Discovery, Affirmation, and Disruption: Trans and Nonbinary Peoples' Experiences Negotiating Gender and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome	10
Challenging Health Citizenship: Digital Health Engagement Among the Oldest Age Groups	10
Complicity: Methodologies of power, politics and the ethics of knowledge production	9
The practice of participatory action research: Complicity, power and prestige in dialogue with the ‘racialised mad’	9
The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–2022	9
Contextualising, Conceptualising and Constructing At‐Homeness: Towards an Integrative Framework for Residential Care	9
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: 978‐1‐03‐25	9
Devaluation and Revaluation as Dynamic Social Processes: The Case of Psychedelic Stigma	9
From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico	9
The Sociology of Diagnosis Index	9

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: 978‐1‐39‐981963‐3	9
(Re)considering Discourses of Risk and Responsibility Through the Lens of Healthism: Interpreting the International Response to a Global Health Strategy for Noncommunicable Diseases	9
COVID companions: Exploring pets as social support	9
Proper distance in the age of social distancing: Hepatitis C treatment, telehealth and questions of care and responsibility	9
Navigating the uncertainties of next‐generation sequencing in the genetics clinic	9
What Makes a Sexually Transmitted Infection? Discrepant Frames in United States Mpox Discourse and Public Health Response	9
Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis. By E.Chiarello, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2024. 304 pp. $32 (hardcover), $24.95 (paperback), $22.40	8
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;	8
The long tail of COVID and the tale of long COVID: Diagnostic construction and the management of ignorance	8
Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID	8
Aiming at the ‘proper’ body: How exoskeletons foster ‘risky’ bodies and conflicting knowledge regimes	8
Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity	8
E‐consultation as existential media: Exploring doctor‐patient ‘digital thrownness’ in Danish general practice	8
Health behaviours and COVID‐19 prevention among immigrants in the United States	8
Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance	8
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 978‐3‐031‐78257‐2	8
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 978‐1‐44‐737163‐2	8
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
Health Effects of Interpersonal and Structural Discrimination on Minority Groups in Europe	8
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: 978‐1‐5261‐52	8
Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity	8
Mental Health, Crime and Justice. By S.Weston, J.Trebilcock, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 361 pp. £129.99 (hb). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐83389‐2	7
Knowledge, community and care: Digital biocitizenship in gestational diabetes	7
Correction to ‘Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction’	7
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Childhood social capital and drug use disorder in adulthood: A retrospective study on antecedent determinants of the type of drug use	7
Be the mother, not the daughter: Immigrant Chinese women, postpartum care knowledge, and mothering autonomy	7
Disparities in Urban Health: The Wounds of Policies and Legal DoctrinesBy Edward V.Wallace: John Hopkins Press, 2024. 194 pp. $38.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781421445694	7
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At the Right Time: Temporal Precision in Personalised Medicine	6
Immunitary Life in COVID‐19 Times: Understandings, Practices and Experiences Among Members of Marginalised Social Groups	6
The Role of Algorithms in Molecular Tumour Boards—Managing the Gap Between Research and Clinic in Precision Medicine	6
Digital Primary Care Services, Procedural Justice and Intersectionality: A Critical Realist Approach	6
When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere	6
Current challenges for doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, reprofessionalisation or fragmentation?	6
Changes of heart: Debating the role of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India, 1948–1968	6
Recognition and Risk: Ethnic Monitoring, Healthcare Access and Everyday Discrimination in Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities in the UK	6
Negotiating Care: The Biographical Narratives of Young Adults Who Questioned Their Gender When Younger	6
Proposing a new history of grief’s medicalisation: A critical discourse analysis	6
Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review	6
‘You’re just a Guinea pig’: Exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long COVID‐19: A view from the undiagnosed	6
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences	6
Providing Hope or Assigning Blame? Healthism in Print Media Portrayals of Dementia Risk and Responsibility	6
Anything but Endo: Diagnostic Buck‐Passing in Endometriosis Diagnosis	6
Buying Time: Incurable Prognosis, Temporal Uncertainty and the Costs of Metastatic Breast Cancer	6
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people	6
Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools	6
From Biographical Disruption to Oscillation: Exploring Illness Identity Tensions Among Young Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in China	6
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: 9781350250192	6
Gender Segregation in Medicine: The Impact of Stereotypes on Speciality Perceptions and Choices	5
Empowerment or Control? Social Capital and Maternal Health Practices in Rural Ethiopia	5
Theorising health equity research for people with intersex variance through new materialism	5
The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice	5
Gut Healthism: The Penetrating Gaze and Depoliticising Forces of Direct‐to‐Consumer Microbiome Testing Kits	5
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: 978‐1529215069	5
Emotion work and emotional labour, neglected facets of parental health information work. Analysing mothers of neurodivergent children	5
‘Staying in the lane’ of public health? Boundary‐work in the roles of state health officials and experts in COVID‐19 policymaking	5
For better or worse: Governing healthcare organisations in times of financial distress	5
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Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post‐COVID Syndrome in Brazil	5
Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity. An intersectional approach	5
Deus Ex Machina: An Ethnographic Exploration of Technology, Death and Decision‐Making in Respiratory Care	5
Introduction to special issue: New dialogues between medical sociology and disability studies	5
Curating ‘the good story’: Care as representative performance in Danish veteran rehabilitation	5
‘I just wanted a change, a positive change’: Locating hope for young people engaged with residential alcohol and drug services in Victoria, Australia	5
Young adults’ experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long COVID	5
Imaginaries of the data‐driven hospital in a time of crisis	5
Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority	5
Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework	5
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: 978	5
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: 978‐1‐80008‐743‐9	4
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: 978‐147	4
Future‐Making From Afar: Digital Twins in Medicine	4
Capturing the smile: Exploring embodied and social acts of smiling	4
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Illness–Care and Validation‐Dependency in the Diagnostic Model for Trans Healthcare: Ambivalent Epistemic Consequences in Japan's Evolving Medical Framework	4
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The intensification of parenting and generational fracturing of spontaneous physical activity from childhood play in the United Kingdom	4
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: 978‐0‐23‐120787‐4	4
Disorder or difference? How clinician‐patient interaction and patient age shape the process and meaning of autism diagnosis	4

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
Transformed States: Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990–2020. By M.Halliwell, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2025. 380 pp. $99.85 (hardcover) ISBN: 978‐1‐97881787‐6	4
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The historical sociology of medicine in India: Introduction to the special section	4
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Hearts in their hands—Physicians’ gestures embodying shared professional knowledge around the world	4
Training the ageing bodies: New knowledge paradigms and professional practices in elderly care	4
Social support for the chronically ill during lockdown. Qualitative research in the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Building and Boosting Capitals for Health Care Access: A Qualitative Study of Homeless Health Peer Advocacy in London, UK	4
Neoliberal Governance and Agribusiness Influence: Public Health Policymaking and the Risk to Meatpacking Workers During COVID‐19	4
Between epistemic injustice and therapeutic jurisprudence: Coronial processes involving families of autistic people, people with learning disabilities and/or mental ill health	4
Towards an ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: Practising beyond the biopsychosocial model	4
When the Place of Care Is Hybrid: An Ethnographic Study of Hospital Video Consultations	4
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 (ebook	4
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).	4
Mothers, milk and mourning: The meanings of breast milk after loss of an infant	4
Emotional Reflexivity and Lifelong Leisure Time Physical Activity: Managing ‘Successful Womanhood’ for Busy Middle‐Class Women	4
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Care Deliberations of Family Carers of People Living With Dementia—Applying an Affective‐Discursive Practices Approach	4