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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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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: 978‐1‐51778
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). ISBN65
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Trust, affect, and choice in parents’ vaccination decision‐making and health‐care provider selection in Switzerland29
Body Odor and Biopolitics: Characterizing Smell in Neoliberal America29
Experiential knowledge in mental health services: Analysing the enactment of expertise in peer support29
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Racialised Immigrant Health: The Association Between Previous Documentation Status and Self‐Reported Health Among Immigrants With Lawful Permanent Resident Status28
‘Improving the odds for everybody’: Narrative and media in stem cell donor recruitment patient appeals, and the work to redress racial inequity24
The power of family? Family social capital and the risk of externalising behaviours among youth with multiple childhood adversities22
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
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
Patient‐activist or ally? Assessing the effectiveness of conscience and beneficiary constituents in disease advocacy fundraising21
Reconfiguring Vulnerability and Dis/Ability: An Agential Realist Exploration to Disentangle Vulnerability Effects in Austria's COVID‐19 Response20
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COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities19
The Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System19
Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South19
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The medicalisation of everyday life: A critical perspective17
1845 or 2023? Friedrich Engels’s insights into the health effects of Victorian‐era and contemporary Canadian capitalism16
Data driven or data informed? How general practitioners use data to evaluate their own and colleagues’ clinical work in clusters16
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
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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: 978‐144735192415
Can a disability studies‐medical sociology rapprochement help re‐value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation?15
The needle pricking and two modes of ‘doing good’ in the Swedish school‐based human papillomavirus vaccination programme15
Passive tolerance and productive uncertainties in food allergy immunotherapy biomedical practices14
Navigating Dementia: Political Materialities of Public Transport in the All‐Ageing Metropolis14
Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to PARP inhibitors14
New Editorial Team14
Conceptualising Lived Experience in Mental Health Research: Problems, Insights and Implications14
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging13
The Political Sociology of NICE: Investigating Pharmaceutical Cost‐Effectiveness Regulation in the UK13
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism. By L.Diedrich, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 150 pp. $10 (paperback); $4.95 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐45297122‐313
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Social vulnerability and the impact of policy responses to COVID‐19 on disabled people13
Countering ‘the moral science of biopolitics’: Understanding hepatitis C treatment ‘non‐compliance’ in the antiviral era12
Let ‘Pregnant Women Choose the Destiny for Themselves and Their Child’. How Fertility Clinic Digital Platforms Frame Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) in Spain12
Hope: The Dream We Carry (2021)12
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: 978‐1‐5179‐10512
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
Misophonia matters: A case study of the role of brain imaging in debates over new diagnoses12
I am what I am?—An integrative review of understandings of ‘health identity’ and ‘illness identity’ in scientific literature12
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From Cells to Organoids: Sociological Considerations for the Bioengineering of Human Models11
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
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
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
The Golden Ticket? Widening Access in UK Medicine and the Making of an Emotional Proletariat11
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Using social media as a platform to publicly disclose HIV status among people living with HIV: Control, identity, informing public dialogue10
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
COVID companions: Exploring pets as social support10
The effects of disappearing social safety nets on inequalities in health10
Reproductive injustice: Racism, pregnancy and premature birth. By Dána‐AinDavis, New York: New York University Press. 2019. pp. 251. $89 (clo); $30 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐4798‐5357‐110
Sustaining relational subjectivity: The experience of women with dementia9
From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico9
Routes into the homeopathic profession: Witnessing, gender and subaltern therapeutics9
Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction9
Regulating diagnosis—Molecular and regulatory sub‐stratifications of lung cancer treatment9
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
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), $29
Re‐ordering connections: UK healthcare workers' experiences of emotion management during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
The practice of participatory action research: Complicity, power and prestige in dialogue with the ‘racialised mad’8
Where Are the Irish in Research on Ethnic Health Inequalities in Britain? A State‐Of‐The‐Art Literature Review8
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The Sociology of Diagnosis Index8
Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: Patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing8
The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–20228
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
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
Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of ‘competent’ parenting: A qualitative analysis8
Navigating the uncertainties of next‐generation sequencing in the genetics clinic8
The importance of rhythms for maintaining consent in diagnostic encounters to detect cervical cancer8
The challenges of coeliac disease at work: A contestation of the politics of inclusion8
Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries8
'Just have some IVF!': A longitudinal ethnographic study of couples' experiences of seeking fertility treatment8
Complicity: Methodologies of power, politics and the ethics of knowledge production8
Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity8
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Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity7
Aiming at the ‘proper’ body: How exoskeletons foster ‘risky’ bodies and conflicting knowledge regimes7
Precision patients: Selection practices and moral pathfinding in experimental oncology7
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 7
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
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
Be the mother, not the daughter: Immigrant Chinese women, postpartum care knowledge, and mothering autonomy7
Health behaviours and COVID‐19 prevention among immigrants in the United States7
Researching the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations: Complicity, oppression and resistance7
Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study7
Correction to ‘Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction’6
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Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID6
Childhood social capital and drug use disorder in adulthood: A retrospective study on antecedent determinants of the type of drug use6
Knowledge, community and care: Digital biocitizenship in gestational diabetes6
Current challenges for doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, reprofessionalisation or fragmentation?6
The Role of Algorithms in Molecular Tumour Boards—Managing the Gap Between Research and Clinic in Precision Medicine6
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Changes of heart: Debating the role of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India, 1948–19686
The long tail of COVID and the tale of long COVID: Diagnostic construction and the management of ignorance6
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
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people6
Negotiating Care: The Biographical Narratives of Young Adults Who Questioned Their Gender When Younger6
Proposing a new history of grief’s medicalisation: A critical discourse analysis6
Transforming Health Care with Qualitative Research6
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Health Effects of Interpersonal and Structural Discrimination on Minority Groups in Europe6
Young onset Parkinson’s disease: Biographical disruption as a repetitive process6
How companions speak on patients’ behalf without undermining their autonomy: Findings from a conversation analytic study of palliative care consultations6
When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere6
Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority5
Theorising health equity research for people with intersex variance through new materialism5
Curating ‘the good story’: Care as representative performance in Danish veteran rehabilitation5
Empowerment or Control? Social Capital and Maternal Health Practices in Rural Ethiopia5
Black Lives Matter: Extended Special Section5
Introduction to special issue: New dialogues between medical sociology and disability studies5
‘You’re just a Guinea pig’: Exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long COVID‐19: A view from the undiagnosed5
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
‘I just wanted a change, a positive change’: Locating hope for young people engaged with residential alcohol and drug services in Victoria, Australia5
Young adults’ experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long COVID5
Emotion work and emotional labour, neglected facets of parental health information work. Analysing mothers of neurodivergent children5
Imaginaries of the data‐driven hospital in a time of crisis5
‘It's not just to treat everybody the same’: A social justice framework for caring for larger patients in healthcare practice5
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
Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review5
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences5
Edgework, institutions and enhanced interrogation5
Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework5
For better or worse: Governing healthcare organisations in times of financial distress5
‘Staying in the lane’ of public health? Boundary‐work in the roles of state health officials and experts in COVID‐19 policymaking5
Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity. An intersectional approach5
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
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Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools5
The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice5
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
Between epistemic injustice and therapeutic jurisprudence: Coronial processes involving families of autistic people, people with learning disabilities and/or mental ill health4
Emotional Reflexivity and Lifelong Leisure Time Physical Activity: Managing ‘Successful Womanhood’ for Busy Middle‐Class Women4
When the Place of Care Is Hybrid: An Ethnographic Study of Hospital Video Consultations4
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The intensification of parenting and generational fracturing of spontaneous physical activity from childhood play in the United Kingdom4
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Paragons, Mavericks and Innovators—A typology of orthopaedic surgeons' professional identities. A comparative case study of evidence‐based practice4
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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Implications of internalised ableism for the health and wellbeing of disabled young people4
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Social support for the chronically ill during lockdown. Qualitative research in the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Physician dominance in the 21st century: Examining the rise of non‐physician autonomy through prevailing theoretical lenses4
Disorder or difference? How clinician‐patient interaction and patient age shape the process and meaning of autism diagnosis4
Towards an ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: Practising beyond the biopsychosocial model4
Capturing the smile: Exploring embodied and social acts of smiling4
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Illness–Care and Validation‐Dependency in the Diagnostic Model for Trans Healthcare: Ambivalent Epistemic Consequences in Japan's Evolving Medical Framework4
Dipping Into the Pool of Creative Ethnography—A Joint Review4
Travelling with Sugar: Chronicles of a global epidemic4
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
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
Mothers, milk and mourning: The meanings of breast milk after loss of an infant4
Training the ageing bodies: New knowledge paradigms and professional practices in elderly care4
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