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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Body Odor and Biopolitics: Characterizing Smell in Neoliberal America70
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). ISBN49
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: 978‐1‐51738
Reconfiguring Vulnerability and Dis/Ability: An Agential Realist Exploration to Disentangle Vulnerability Effects in Austria's COVID‐19 Response33
Thanks to Reviewers – October 2021 to September 202233
Racialised Immigrant Health: The Association Between Previous Documentation Status and Self‐Reported Health Among Immigrants With Lawful Permanent Resident Status32
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‘Improving the odds for everybody’: Narrative and media in stem cell donor recruitment patient appeals, and the work to redress racial inequity26
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Patient‐activist or ally? Assessing the effectiveness of conscience and beneficiary constituents in disease advocacy fundraising23
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 (eb21
COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities20
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: 978‐144736339220
Experiential knowledge in mental health services: Analysing the enactment of expertise in peer support20
The power of family? Family social capital and the risk of externalising behaviours among youth with multiple childhood adversities19
The Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System19
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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
Coordinating the Medical Division of Labour: The Travails of Electronic Patient Records in the United Kingdom and United States17
New Editorial Team17
The medicalisation of everyday life: A critical perspective17
The needle pricking and two modes of ‘doing good’ in the Swedish school‐based human papillomavirus vaccination programme17
Cabin fever: Surviving lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic. By PaulCrawford and Jamie OrionCrawford, Bingley: Emerald Publishing. 2021. pp. 152. £16.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐80071‐355‐016
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
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1845 or 2023? Friedrich Engels’s insights into the health effects of Victorian‐era and contemporary Canadian capitalism15
Can a disability studies‐medical sociology rapprochement help re‐value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation?15
Conceptualising Lived Experience in Mental Health Research: Problems, Insights and Implications15
The Political Sociology of NICE: Investigating Pharmaceutical Cost‐Effectiveness Regulation in the UK15
Passive tolerance and productive uncertainties in food allergy immunotherapy biomedical practices15
Navigating Dementia: Political Materialities of Public Transport in the All‐Ageing Metropolis15
Misunderstood, Minimised, Misrepresented: Autistic Young Adults' Experiences of Epistemic Injustices in Healthcare Interactions Around Autism15
Hope: The Dream We Carry (2021)14
Misophonia matters: A case study of the role of brain imaging in debates over new diagnoses14
Data driven or data informed? How general practitioners use data to evaluate their own and colleagues’ clinical work in clusters14
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
The Golden Ticket? Widening Access in UK Medicine and the Making of an Emotional Proletariat13
I am what I am?—An integrative review of understandings of ‘health identity’ and ‘illness identity’ in scientific literature13
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging13
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
From Cells to Organoids: Sociological Considerations for the Bioengineering of Human Models13
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Shifting Expectations of Novel Immunotherapy Treatments in Oncology: Practitioners' and Patients' Calibration Work in Conditions of Uncertainty12
Countering ‘the moral science of biopolitics’: Understanding hepatitis C treatment ‘non‐compliance’ in the antiviral era12
Inequality, Trust and Fear: Migrant Healthcare During the COVID‐19 Pandemic and Beyond12
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
Extreme weight loss: Life before and after bariatric surgery11
The myth of the wrong body. By M.Missé, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2022. pp. 142. $50 (Cloth); $16.99 (pbk); $12.45 (ebk)11
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
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Let ‘Pregnant Women Choose the Destiny for Themselves and Their Child’. How Fertility Clinic Digital Platforms Frame Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) in Spain11
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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). IS11
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
Challenging Health Citizenship: Digital Health Engagement Among the Oldest Age Groups10
Proper distance in the age of social distancing: Hepatitis C treatment, telehealth and questions of care and responsibility10
The challenges of coeliac disease at work: A contestation of the politics of inclusion10
The practice of participatory action research: Complicity, power and prestige in dialogue with the ‘racialised mad’10
Regulating diagnosis—Molecular and regulatory sub‐stratifications of lung cancer treatment10
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: 978‐1‐5179‐1172‐010
Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction10
Sustaining relational subjectivity: The experience of women with dementia10
The effects of disappearing social safety nets on inequalities in health10
“Am I in ‘Suboptimal Health’?”: The Narratives and Rhetoric in Carving out the Grey Area Between Health and Illness in Everyday Life10
Reconciling healthism and techno‐solutionism: An observational study of a digital mental health trial10
Where Are the Irish in Research on Ethnic Health Inequalities in Britain? A State‐Of‐The‐Art Literature Review10
Using social media as a platform to publicly disclose HIV status among people living with HIV: Control, identity, informing public dialogue9
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: 978‐1‐5261‐529
The Sociology of Diagnosis Index9
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COVID companions: Exploring pets as social support9
From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico9
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Navigating the uncertainties of next‐generation sequencing in the genetics clinic9
The importance of rhythms for maintaining consent in diagnostic encounters to detect cervical cancer9
Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries9
The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–20229
Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity9
What Makes a Sexually Transmitted Infection? Discrepant Frames in United States Mpox Discourse and Public Health Response8
Complicity: Methodologies of power, politics and the ethics of knowledge production8
Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of ‘competent’ parenting: A qualitative analysis8
'Just have some IVF!': A longitudinal ethnographic study of couples' experiences of seeking fertility treatment8
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
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
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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
Researching the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations: Complicity, oppression and resistance7
Be the mother, not the daughter: Immigrant Chinese women, postpartum care knowledge, and mothering autonomy7
Precision patients: Selection practices and moral pathfinding in experimental oncology7
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Health behaviours and COVID‐19 prevention among immigrants in the United States7
Aiming at the ‘proper’ body: How exoskeletons foster ‘risky’ bodies and conflicting knowledge regimes7
Health Effects of Interpersonal and Structural Discrimination on Minority Groups in Europe7
The long tail of COVID and the tale of long COVID: Diagnostic construction and the management of ignorance7
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
Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID7
Emotional labour as a vehicle of organisational change in maternity care: The case of Russian doulas' institutional work7
E‐consultation as existential media: Exploring doctor‐patient ‘digital thrownness’ in Danish general practice7
Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance7
Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study7
Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity7
Digital Primary Care Services, Procedural Justice and Intersectionality: A Critical Realist Approach6
The Role of Algorithms in Molecular Tumour Boards—Managing the Gap Between Research and Clinic in Precision Medicine6
Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review6
Proposing a new history of grief’s medicalisation: A critical discourse analysis6
Current challenges for doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, reprofessionalisation or fragmentation?6
Childhood social capital and drug use disorder in adulthood: A retrospective study on antecedent determinants of the type of drug use6
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Correction to ‘Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction’6
Changes of heart: Debating the role of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India, 1948–19686
Young onset Parkinson’s disease: Biographical disruption as a repetitive process6
Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools6
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
Transforming Health Care with Qualitative Research6
Negotiating Care: The Biographical Narratives of Young Adults Who Questioned Their Gender When Younger6
When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere6
Knowledge, community and care: Digital biocitizenship in gestational diabetes6
Edgework, institutions and enhanced interrogation5
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
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people5
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences5
Empowerment or Control? Social Capital and Maternal Health Practices in Rural Ethiopia5
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
Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity. An intersectional approach5
The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice5
For better or worse: Governing healthcare organisations in times of financial distress5
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From Biographical Disruption to Oscillation: Exploring Illness Identity Tensions Among Young Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in China5
‘You’re just a Guinea pig’: Exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long COVID‐19: A view from the undiagnosed5
Theorising health equity research for people with intersex variance through new materialism5
Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post‐COVID Syndrome in Brazil5
Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework5
‘Staying in the lane’ of public health? Boundary‐work in the roles of state health officials and experts in COVID‐19 policymaking5
Introduction to special issue: New dialogues between medical sociology and disability studies5
Curating ‘the good story’: Care as representative performance in Danish veteran rehabilitation5
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
How companions speak on patients’ behalf without undermining their autonomy: Findings from a conversation analytic study of palliative care consultations5
Providing Hope or Assigning Blame? Healthism in Print Media Portrayals of Dementia Risk and Responsibility5
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
‘It's not just to treat everybody the same’: A social justice framework for caring for larger patients in healthcare practice5
Young adults’ experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long COVID5
Gut Healthism: The Penetrating Gaze and Depoliticising Forces of Direct‐to‐Consumer Microbiome Testing Kits5
Imaginaries of the data‐driven hospital in a time of crisis5
Neoliberal Governance and Agribusiness Influence: Public Health Policymaking and the Risk to Meatpacking Workers During COVID‐194
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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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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
Towards an ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: Practising beyond the biopsychosocial model4
Mothers, milk and mourning: The meanings of breast milk after loss of an infant4
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Capturing the smile: Exploring embodied and social acts of smiling4
Between epistemic injustice and therapeutic jurisprudence: Coronial processes involving families of autistic people, people with learning disabilities and/or mental ill health4
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Emotion work and emotional labour, neglected facets of parental health information work. Analysing mothers of neurodivergent children4
Training the ageing bodies: New knowledge paradigms and professional practices in elderly care4
Disorder or difference? How clinician‐patient interaction and patient age shape the process and meaning of autism diagnosis4
The intensification of parenting and generational fracturing of spontaneous physical activity from childhood play in the United Kingdom4
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
Hearts in their hands—Physicians’ gestures embodying shared professional knowledge around the world4
Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority4
Emotional Reflexivity and Lifelong Leisure Time Physical Activity: Managing ‘Successful Womanhood’ for Busy Middle‐Class Women4
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
Social support for the chronically ill during lockdown. Qualitative research in the COVID‐19 pandemic4
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