Social Theory & Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Theory & Health is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
‘You’d think they’d know’: social epistemology and informal carers of mental health service users22
Inequity in palliative care: class and active ageing when dying12
Conceptualising care: critical perspectives on informal care and inequality10
“Not a lifestyle disease”: the importance of boundary work for the construction of a collective illness identity among people with type 1 diabetes8
What is evidence as evidence is used? A case of dualism?8
“They are not almighty god, they are doctors, they are human”: a qualitative study of mechanisms underlying epistemic injustices in chronic pain patients’ testimonies6
Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design & exploring the role(s) of capital6
Neurasthenia and autonomic imbalance as minor diagnoses: comparison, concept and implications5
Negative health classifications: understanding avoidance and social exclusion during a pandemic5
Solidarity and recognition of identity: the case of informal care4
Fragmentation in One Health policy and practice responses to antimicrobial resistance and the salutary value of collaborative humility4
Experience and research: implications for mental health promotion4
“It has to somehow permeate to the public”: expert views on the solidaristic potential of Israel’s National genomic biobank initiative3
Aging in light of digitalization of healthcare3
(F)ailing mothers and the quest for redemption: a sociological study of postnatal depression recovery blogs3
Is there power in Mad knowledge?3
COVID-19 amongst western democracies: A welfare state analysis3
Street-level bureaucrat's coping strategies in health policy implementation: a comparative case study from Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of Ghana2
Whither sociological theory in the health field?2
Mothering with migraine2
Patients’ knowledge and their trust in surgical doctors. A questionnaire-based study and a theoretical discussion from Norway2
Earbuds, smartphones, and music. Spiritual care and existential changes in COVID-19 times2
UK public opinion on reasons to oppose healthcare privatisation: a failure of neoliberal persuasion and discursive politicisation2
Extending Durkheim’s sociology of suicide to healthcare decision-making: towards a sociology of choice as a social phenomenon of integration and regulation2
Engagement and qualitative sociology in health research: proximal, but incongruent1
Risk management in a global market of alternative addiction care: a case study of the ibogaine medical subculture1
Confiding in strangers: trust and mental health service use in China1
What shapes local health system actors’ thinking and action on social inequalities in health? A meta-ethnography1
Milky bonds: exploring solidarity in human milk banking1
Frailty after Covid: tracing emergent shifts through heterogenous network mapping1
Disability and social trust: a comparison of people with a spinal cord injury and the general population in Norway, the Netherlands, and South-Africa1
When health is wealth: occupationally differentiated patterns of health capital in post-industrial Europe1
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