Sociology of Health & Illness

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Body Odor and Biopolitics: Characterizing Smell in Neoliberal America	69
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	45
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	35
Thanks to Reviewers – October 2021 to September 2022	33
Reconfiguring Vulnerability and Dis/Ability: An Agential Realist Exploration to Disentangle Vulnerability Effects in Austria's COVID‐19 Response	33
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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COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities	25
Patient‐activist or ally? Assessing the effectiveness of conscience and beneficiary constituents in disease advocacy fundraising	24
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	23
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	22
Experiential knowledge in mental health services: Analysing the enactment of expertise in peer support	20
Trust, affect, and choice in parents’ vaccination decision‐making and health‐care provider selection in Switzerland	20
‘Improving the odds for everybody’: Narrative and media in stem cell donor recruitment patient appeals, and the work to redress racial inequity	20
The power of family? Family social capital and the risk of externalising behaviours among youth with multiple childhood adversities	20
The Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System	19
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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: 978‐1447351924	18
The needle pricking and two modes of ‘doing good’ in the Swedish school‐based human papillomavirus vaccination programme	18
New Editorial Team	17
Coordinating the Medical Division of Labour: The Travails of Electronic Patient Records in the United Kingdom and United States	17
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The medicalisation of everyday life: A critical perspective	16
Navigating Dementia: Political Materialities of Public Transport in the All‐Ageing Metropolis	16

Cabin fever: Surviving lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic. By PaulCrawford and Jamie OrionCrawford, Bingley: Emerald Publishing. 2021. pp. 152. £16.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐80071‐355‐0	16
1845 or 2023? Friedrich Engels’s insights into the health effects of Victorian‐era and contemporary Canadian capitalism	15
Conceptualising Lived Experience in Mental Health Research: Problems, Insights and Implications	15
Data driven or data informed? How general practitioners use data to evaluate their own and colleagues’ clinical work in clusters	15
The Political Sociology of NICE: Investigating Pharmaceutical Cost‐Effectiveness Regulation in the UK	15
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	15
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Passive tolerance and productive uncertainties in food allergy immunotherapy biomedical practices	14
Hope: The Dream We Carry (2021)	14
Can a disability studies‐medical sociology rapprochement help re‐value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation?	14
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging	14
Misophonia matters: A case study of the role of brain imaging in debates over new diagnoses	14
From Cells to Organoids: Sociological Considerations for the Bioengineering of Human Models	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
Countering ‘the moral science of biopolitics’: Understanding hepatitis C treatment ‘non‐compliance’ in the antiviral era	13
Let ‘Pregnant Women Choose the Destiny for Themselves and Their Child’. How Fertility Clinic Digital Platforms Frame Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) in Spain	13
The Golden Ticket? Widening Access in UK Medicine and the Making of an Emotional Proletariat	13
Shifting Expectations of Novel Immunotherapy Treatments in Oncology: Practitioners' and Patients' Calibration Work in Conditions of Uncertainty	12
Inequality, Trust and Fear: Migrant Healthcare During the COVID‐19 Pandemic and Beyond	12
I am what I am?—An integrative review of understandings of ‘health identity’ and ‘illness identity’ in scientific literature	12
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	12
The effects of disappearing social safety nets on inequalities in health	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
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	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
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
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Sustaining relational subjectivity: The experience of women with dementia	11
Routes into the homeopathic profession: Witnessing, gender and subaltern therapeutics	11
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	11
Extreme weight loss: Life before and after bariatric surgery	11
The importance of rhythms for maintaining consent in diagnostic encounters to detect cervical cancer	10
Proper distance in the age of social distancing: Hepatitis C treatment, telehealth and questions of care and responsibility	10
Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction	10
“Am I in ‘Suboptimal Health’?”: The Narratives and Rhetoric in Carving out the Grey Area Between Health and Illness in Everyday Life	10
Where Are the Irish in Research on Ethnic Health Inequalities in Britain? A State‐Of‐The‐Art Literature Review	10
Regulating diagnosis—Molecular and regulatory sub‐stratifications of lung cancer treatment	10
Reconciling healthism and techno‐solutionism: An observational study of a digital mental health trial	10
The practice of participatory action research: Complicity, power and prestige in dialogue with the ‘racialised mad’	10
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From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico	9
Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries	9
What Makes a Sexually Transmitted Infection? Discrepant Frames in United States Mpox Discourse and Public Health Response	9
Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity	9
Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of ‘competent’ parenting: A qualitative analysis	9
The challenges of coeliac disease at work: A contestation of the politics of inclusion	9
Sitting as a moral practice: Older adults’ accounts from qualitative interviews on sedentary behaviours	9
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	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
Navigating the uncertainties of next‐generation sequencing in the genetics clinic	9
The Sociology of Diagnosis Index	9
COVID companions: Exploring pets as social support	9
Using social media as a platform to publicly disclose HIV status among people living with HIV: Control, identity, informing public dialogue	9
The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–2022	9
Complicity: Methodologies of power, politics and the ethics of knowledge production	9
'Just have some IVF!': A longitudinal ethnographic study of couples' experiences of seeking fertility treatment	9
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
Emotional labour as a vehicle of organisational change in maternity care: The case of Russian doulas' institutional work	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
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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;	8
Aiming at the ‘proper’ body: How exoskeletons foster ‘risky’ bodies and conflicting knowledge regimes	8
Precision patients: Selection practices and moral pathfinding in experimental oncology	7
Be the mother, not the daughter: Immigrant Chinese women, postpartum care knowledge, and mothering autonomy	7
The long tail of COVID and the tale of long COVID: Diagnostic construction and the management of ignorance	7
Transforming Health Care with Qualitative Research	7
Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID	7
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	7
Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance	7
Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity	7
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Health Effects of Interpersonal and Structural Discrimination on Minority Groups in Europe	7
Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study	7
Researching the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations: Complicity, oppression and resistance	7
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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
Correction to ‘Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction’	6
How companions speak on patients’ behalf without undermining their autonomy: Findings from a conversation analytic study of palliative care consultations	6
Digital Primary Care Services, Procedural Justice and Intersectionality: A Critical Realist Approach	6
Young onset Parkinson’s disease: Biographical disruption as a repetitive process	6
Current challenges for doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, reprofessionalisation or fragmentation?	6
Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools	6
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people	6
Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review	6
Childhood social capital and drug use disorder in adulthood: A retrospective study on antecedent determinants of the type of drug use	6
Negotiating Care: The Biographical Narratives of Young Adults Who Questioned Their Gender When Younger	6
‘You’re just a Guinea pig’: Exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long COVID‐19: A view from the undiagnosed	6
Proposing a new history of grief’s medicalisation: A critical discourse analysis	6
Changes of heart: Debating the role of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India, 1948–1968	6
From Biographical Disruption to Oscillation: Exploring Illness Identity Tensions Among Young Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in China	6
The Role of Algorithms in Molecular Tumour Boards—Managing the Gap Between Research and Clinic in Precision Medicine	6
When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere	6
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences	6
Knowledge, community and care: Digital biocitizenship in gestational diabetes	6
Empowerment or Control? Social Capital and Maternal Health Practices in Rural Ethiopia	5
Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority	5
For better or worse: Governing healthcare organisations in times of financial distress	5
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	5
‘It's not just to treat everybody the same’: A social justice framework for caring for larger patients in healthcare practice	5
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	5
Introduction to special issue: New dialogues between medical sociology and disability studies	5
‘Staying in the lane’ of public health? Boundary‐work in the roles of state health officials and experts in COVID‐19 policymaking	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
Curating ‘the good story’: Care as representative performance in Danish veteran rehabilitation	5
Edgework, institutions and enhanced interrogation	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
Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity. An intersectional approach	5
The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice	5
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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);	5
Imaginaries of the data‐driven hospital in a time of crisis	5
Gut Healthism: The Penetrating Gaze and Depoliticising Forces of Direct‐to‐Consumer Microbiome Testing Kits	5
Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework	5
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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
Theorising health equity research for people with intersex variance through new materialism	5
Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post‐COVID Syndrome in Brazil	5
Young adults’ experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long COVID	5
Emotion work and emotional labour, neglected facets of parental health information work. Analysing mothers of neurodivergent children	5
Deus Ex Machina: An Ethnographic Exploration of Technology, Death and Decision‐Making in Respiratory Care	5
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Neoliberal Governance and Agribusiness Influence: Public Health Policymaking and the Risk to Meatpacking Workers During COVID‐19	4
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
Mothers, milk and mourning: The meanings of breast milk after loss of an infant	4
The intensification of parenting and generational fracturing of spontaneous physical activity from childhood play in the United Kingdom	4
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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
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Disorder or difference? How clinician‐patient interaction and patient age shape the process and meaning of autism diagnosis	4
Capturing the smile: Exploring embodied and social acts of smiling	4
Hearts in their hands—Physicians’ gestures embodying shared professional knowledge around the world	4
Social support for the chronically ill during lockdown. Qualitative research in the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Between epistemic injustice and therapeutic jurisprudence: Coronial processes involving families of autistic people, people with learning disabilities and/or mental ill health	4
‘Not in it for huge profits but because it’s right’: The contested moral economies of UK–India exports in health worker education and training	4
Processes underpinning survival in gay men living with HIV and a history of suicidality	4
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Towards an ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: Practising beyond the biopsychosocial model	4
Training the ageing bodies: New knowledge paradigms and professional practices in elderly care	4
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Emotional Reflexivity and Lifelong Leisure Time Physical Activity: Managing ‘Successful Womanhood’ for Busy Middle‐Class Women	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
When the Place of Care Is Hybrid: An Ethnographic Study of Hospital Video Consultations	4