Sociology of Health & Illness

Article	Citations
Beyond deficit: ‘strengths‐based approaches’ in Indigenous health research	79
Gender, socioeconomic status, and COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy in the US: An intersectionality approach	47
Towards a sociological understanding of medical gaslighting in western health care	47
Health inequalities, fundamental causes and power: towards the practice of good theory	43
Masculinities, emotions and men’s suicide	31
“No one associates alcohol with being in good health”: Health and wellbeing as imperatives to manage alcohol use for young people	30
Media framing of fighting COVID‐19 in China	27
Emerging contaminants, coerced ignorance and environmental health concerns: The case of per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)	24
Coronavirus (COVID‐19), pandemic psychology and the fractured society: a sociological case for critique, foresight and action	23
What does the literature mean by social prescribing? A critical review using discourse analysis	22
Race/ethnicity, gender and the SES gradient in BMI: The diminishing returns of SES for racial/ethnic minorities	22
Trust, affect, and choice in parents’ vaccination decision‐making and health‐care provider selection in Switzerland	22
Fertility and digital technology: narratives of using smartphone app ‘Natural Cycles’ while trying to conceive	20
What would it take to meaningfully attend to ethnicity and race in health research? Learning from a trial intervention development study	20
Intersectional analysis of cannabis use, stigma and health among marginalized Nigerian women	19
Women’s empowerment and their experience to food security in rural Bangladesh	19
Re‐ordering connections: UK healthcare workers' experiences of emotion management during the COVID‐19 pandemic	19
Implications of internalised ableism for the health and wellbeing of disabled young people	18
A sociology of precision‐in‐practice: The affective and temporal complexities of everyday clinical care	18
Why doesn’t integrated care work? Using Strong Structuration Theory to explain the limitations of an English case	17
Body mass index is just a number: Conflating riskiness and unhealthiness in discourse on body size	17
How men step back – and recover – from suicide attempts: A relational and gendered account	16
Social vulnerability and the impact of policy responses to COVID‐19 on disabled people	16
Non‐human matter, health disparities and a thousand tiny dis/advantages	16
Hepatitis C cure as a ‘gathering’: Attending to the social and material relations of hepatitis C treatment	15

Place of alcohol in the ‘wellness toolkits’ of midlife women in different social classes: A qualitative study in South Australia	15
The COVID‐19 pandemic and cause of death	15
‘You Have to Withstand That Because You Have Come for What You Have Come for’: Barriers and facilitators to antiretroviral treatment access among older South Africans living with HIV	14
Obese societies: Reconceptualising the challenge for public health	14
Tracking towards care: Relational affordances of self‐tracking in gym culture	13
Impact of COVID‐19 inequalities on children: An intersectional analysis	13
Negotiating identities of ‘responsible drinking’: Exploring accounts of alcohol consumption of working mothers in their early parenting period	13
Essentially invisible: risk and personal support workers in the time of COVID‐19	13
Frailty as biographical disruption	12
The impossibility of engaged research: Complicity and accountability between researchers, ‘publics’ and institutions	12
Defining patient’s experiential knowledge: Who, what and how patients know. A narrative critical review	12
“We’re just stuck in a daily routine”: Implications of the temporal dimensions, demands and dispositions of mothering for leisure time physical activity	11
Assembling care: How nurses organise care in uncharted territory and in times of pandemic	11
Making sense of experiences in suicide helpline calls: Offering empathy without endorsing suicidal ideation	11
Mapping mental health inequalities: The intersecting effects of gender, race, class, and ethnicity on ADHD diagnosis	11
How companions speak on patients’ behalf without undermining their autonomy: Findings from a conversation analytic study of palliative care consultations	11
A delicate balance between control and flexibility: Experiences of care and support among pre‐teenage children with type 1 diabetes and their families	11
Disability and the (dysbiotic) gut: Sensing, tasting and knowing with food	11
Exploring the relevance of intersectionality in Australian dietetics: Issues of diversity and representation	10
Biological costs and benefits of social relationships for men and women in adulthood: The role of partner, family and friends	10
Triage as an infrastructure of care: The intimate work of redistributing medical care in nursing homes	10
Compulsory separation of women prisoners from their babies following childbirth: Uncertainty, loss and disenfranchised grief	10
Material Citizenship: An ethnographic study exploring object–person relations in the context of people with dementia in care homes	10
Precision patients: Selection practices and moral pathfinding in experimental oncology	10
Desynchronised times? Chronobiology, (bio)medicalisation and the rhythms of life itself	10
Family imaginaries in the disclosure of a blood‐borne virus	10
Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity	10
Community pharmacy and public health: preserving professionalism by extending the pharmacy gaze?	10
Is the end in sight? A study of how and why services are decommissioned in the English National Health Service	9
Managing (im) patience of nurses and nurse's aides: Emotional labour and normalizing practices at geriatric facilities	9
Frying eggs or making a treatment plan? Frictions between different modes of caring in a community mental health team	9
Vaccine hesitancy and emerging parental norms: A qualitative study in Taiwan	9
Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID	9
Attending to child agency in paediatric palliative care consultations: Adults’ use of tag questions directed to the child	9
Depressive symptoms and perception of risk during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic: A web‐based cross‐country comparative survey	9
Excitable models: Projections, targets, and the making of futures without disease	9
Sitting as a moral practice: Older adults’ accounts from qualitative interviews on sedentary behaviours	9
Forms of resistance in people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities	9
Linking socioeconomic disadvantage to healthiness of food practices: Can a practice‐theoretical perspective sharpen everyday life analysis?	9
Enacting evidence‐based medicine in fertility care: Tensions between commercialisation and knowledge standardisation	8
Experiential expertise in the co‐development of social and health‐care services: Self‐promotion and self‐dismissal as interactional strategies	8
Uncomfortable science: How mathematical models, and consensus, come to be in public policy	8
Experiences of face mask use during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A qualitative study	8
Temp nurses go digital: Examining gig care in US nursing homes	8
“They created a team of almost entirely the people who work and are like them”: A qualitative study of organisational culture and racialised inequalities among healthcare staff	8
Ambivalent anticipation: How people with Alzheimer’s disease value diagnosis in current and envisioned future practices	8
Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: Patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing	8
Constituting link working through choice and care: An ethnographic account of front‐line social prescribing	8
Imaginaries of the data‐driven hospital in a time of crisis	8
Health consequences of child removal among Indigenous and non‐Indigenous sex workers: Examining trajectories, mechanisms and resiliencies	8

Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study	8
Fat shaming under neoliberalism and COVID‐19: Examining the UK’s Tackling Obesity campaign	8
The impact of financialisation on public health in times of COVID‐19 and beyond	8
‘I am just a shadow of who I used to be’—Exploring existential loss of identity among people living with chronic conditions of Long COVID	8
Moral barriers to HIV prevention and care for gay and bisexual men: Challenges in times of conservatism in Brazil	8
Platform encounters: A study of digitised patient follow‐up in HIV care	8
Knowing (with) the body: Sensory knowing in contraceptive self‐tracking	8
Black knowledges matter: How the suppression of non‐white understandings of dementia harms us all and how we can combat it	7
Obligatory medical prescription of antibiotics in Russia: Navigating formal and informal health‐care infrastructures	7
Psychosocial resilience among left‐behind adolescents in rural Thailand: A qualitative exploration	7
‘You're only there on the phone’? A qualitative exploration of community, affect and agential capacity in HIV self‐testing using a smartphone app	7
Sociological contributions to race and health: Diversifying the ontological and methodological agenda	7
The social meanings of PrEP use – A mixed‐method study of PrEP use disclosure in Antwerp and Amsterdam	7
The mask trap: from symbol of preparation to symbol of negligence—understanding the ambiguous relationships between face masks and the French public decision‐makers1	7
COVID‐19, public health, and the politics of prevention	7
Drug fatalities and treatment fatalism: Complicating the ageing cohort theory	7
Epistemic in/justice in patient participation. A discourse analysis of the Dutch ME/CFS Health Council advisory process	7
Stigma, mental illness & ethnicity: Time to centre racism and structural stigma	7
The different facets of ‘experiential knowledge’ in Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device	6
An incongruous intervention: Exploring the role of anti‐institutionalism in less‐educated individual’s limited uptake of nutrition information	6
A ‘patient–industry complex’? Investigating the financial dependency of UK patient organisations on drug company funding	6
Affect, dis/ability and the pandemic	6
Disease surveillance infrastructure and the economisation of public health	6
Understanding adolescent health risk behaviour and socioeconomic position: A grounded theory study of UK young adults	6
Taking time: The temporal politics of dementia, care and support in the neighbourhood	6
In their own words: A narrative analysis of illness memoirs written by men with prostate cancer	6
The practice of participatory action research: Complicity, power and prestige in dialogue with the ‘racialised mad’	6
Gendered social practices in reproductive health: A qualitative study exploring lived experiences of unwed single mothers in China	6
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences	6
Prescribing as affective clinical practice: Transformations in sexual health consultations through HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis	6
An ethnocultural perspective on loneliness in young adulthood: A population‐based study in Israel	6
The salutogenic gaze: Theorising the practitioner role in complementary and alternative medicine consultations	6
Appraising screening, making risk in/visible. The medical debate over Non‐Rare Thrombophilia (NRT) testing before prescribing the pill	6
The health effects of wage setting institutions: How collective bargaining improves health but not because it reduces inequality	6
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people	6
Patient experience data as enacted: Sociomaterial perspectives and ‘singular‐multiples’ in health care quality improvement research	5
Experiential knowledge in mental health services: Analysing the enactment of expertise in peer support	5
Like clockwork? (Re)imagining rhythms and routines when living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)	5
Biographical accounts of the impact of fatigue in young people with sickle cell disease	5
Struggling, helping and adapting: Crowdfunding motivations and outcomes during the early US COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Reordering the machinery of participation with young people	5
‘Who cares if you're poz right now?’: Barebackers, HIV and COVID‐19	5
Can HIV‐positive gay men become parents? How men living with HIV and HIV clinicians talk about the possibility of having children	5
At the limits of “capability”: The sexual and reproductive health of women migrant workers in Malaysia	5
Troubling content: Guiding discussion of death by suicide on social media	5
‘Black African’ identification and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Britain: A site for sociological, ethical and policy debate	5
The exchange and use of cultural and social capital among community health workers in the United States	5
Gender roles and selection mechanisms across contexts: a comparative analysis of the relationship between unemployment, self‐perceived health and gender	5
Theorising rehabilitation: Actors and parameters shaping normality, liminality and depersonalisation in a UK hospital	5
‘I'll put up with things for a long time before I need to call anybody’: Face work, the Total Institution and the perpetuation of care inequalities	5
Physician dominance in the 21st century: Examining the rise of non‐physician autonomy through prevailing theoretical lenses	5
Digital health: A sociomaterial approach	5
Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities in Canada: Polemics and anger mobilization as the way forward?	5
Masculinities and men’s emotions in and after intimate partner relationships	5
Desire over damage: Epistemological shifts and anticolonial praxis from an indigenous‐led community health project	5
Austerity and identity formation: How welfare cutbacks condition narratives of sickness	5
Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of ‘competent’ parenting: A qualitative analysis	5
Personalising clinical pathways in a London breast cancer service	5
Epistemic injustice as a bridge between medical sociology and disability studies	5
From community of practice to epistemic community – law, discipline and security in the battle for the legalisation of medical cannabis in Poland	5
Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to PARP inhibitors	5
Emotions and emotion work before, during and after HIV disclosure among Black gay and bisexual men living with HIV	4
‘I just wanted a change, a positive change’: Locating hope for young people engaged with residential alcohol and drug services in Victoria, Australia	4
‘Doing’ hypertension: Experiential knowledge and practice in the self‐management of ‘high blood’ in the Philippines	4
Disaggregating inequalities in the career outcomes of international medical graduates in the United States	4
Patient informed choice in the age of evidence‐based medicine: IVF patients’ approaches to biomedical evidence and fertility treatment add‐ons	4
The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two‐generational, longitudinal approach	4
Coalitions of touch: Balancing restraint and haptic soothing in the veterinary clinic	4
Be the mother, not the daughter: Immigrant Chinese women, postpartum care knowledge, and mothering autonomy	4
‘We're welcomed into people's homes every day’ versus ‘we're the people that come and arrest you’: The relational production of masculinities and vulnerabilities among male first responders	4
Valuing Black lives and the ‘Good Death’ in the United States	4
Living the everyday of dementia friendliness: Navigating care in public spaces	4
‘I know you shouldn't compare to other people, but I can’t do anything most people can’: Age, family and occupation categorisations in men’s reasoning about their anxiety in an online discussion forum	4
Data protection, information governance and the potential erosion of ethnographic methods in health care?	4
To be or not to be: The identity work of pharmacists as clinicians	4
‘Don’t think that we die from AIDS’: Invisibilised uncertainty and global transgender health	4
Varieties of improvement expertise: Knowledge and contestation in health‐care improvement	4
The influence of caregiver's migration status on child's use of healthcare services: evidence from Ireland	4
Can a disability studies‐medical sociology rapprochement help re‐value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation?	4
Researching the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations: Complicity, oppression and resistance	4

Interrogating the promise of technology in epilepsy care: systematic, hermeneutic review	4
Off the record: The invisibility work of doctors in a patient‐accessible electronic health record information service	4
Mental illness stigma and employer evaluation in hiring: Stereotypes, discrimination and the role of experience	4
Egg donation in the age of vitrification: A study of egg providers’ perceptions and experiences in the UK, Belgium and Spain	4
More scientific, more ethical: The ADHD controversy and boundary‐work in Taiwan	4
Embodying disabled liminality: A matter of mal/adjustment to dis/ableism	4
Replacement feeding and the HIV Diaspora: A case of ontological multiplicity and fluid technologies	4
Between diagnostic precision and rapid decision‐making: Using institutional ethnography to explore diagnostic work in the context of Cancer Patient Pathways in Norway	4
A glimpse behind the organisational curtain: A dramaturgical analysis exploring the ways healthcare staff engage with online patient feedback ‘front’ and ‘backstage’ at three hospital Trusts in Englan	4
The long tail of COVID and the tale of long COVID: Diagnostic construction and the management of ignorance	4
All the good care: Valuation and task differentiation in older person care	4
Imagining genomic medicine futures in primary care: General practitioners’ views on mainstreaming genomics in the National Health Service	4
Diagnosing social ills: Theorising social determinants of health as a diagnostic category	4
Turning the gaze: Digital patient feedback and the silent pathology of the NHS	4
From knowledge to a gendered event and trustful ties: HPV vaccine framings of eligible Finnish girls and school nurses	4
Navigating the uncertainties of next‐generation sequencing in the genetics clinic	4
Digital community assets: Investigating the impact of online engagement with arts and peer support groups on mental health during COVID‐19	4
Too big, too young, too risky: How diagnosis of the foetal body determines trajectories of care for the pregnant woman in pre‐viability second trimester pregnancy loss	4
The muddle of institutional racism in mental health	4
Race in clinical trials in Sweden: How regulatory and medical standards in clinical research trump the post‐racial discourse	4
Mothers, milk and mourning: The meanings of breast milk after loss of an infant	4