OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Health capital: toward a conceptual framework for understanding the construction of individual health	24
The complexities of developing equal relationships in patient and public involvement in health research	13
Ambivalence and the biopolitics of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation	9
Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design & exploring the role(s) of capital	7
Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle?	7
Self-reported health and the social body	7
‘I couldn’t say the words’: communicative bodies and spaces in parents’ encounters with nonsuicidal self-injury	6
Inequality, distress and harm-reduction: a social justice approach to self-injury	6
The psychosocial implications of social distancing for people with COPD: some exploratory issues facing a uniquely marginalised group during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Understanding social inequalities in cardiac treatment through the lens of cultural health capital: a study of Danish socially disadvantaged ischemic heart patients’ lived experiences of healthcare in	5
Medicalising the moral: the case of depression as revealed in internet blogs	5
COVID-19 amongst western democracies: A welfare state analysis	5
Challenging the clinically-situated emotion-deficient version of empathy within medicine and medical education research	4
Coronavirus, capitalism and a ‘thousand tiny dis/advantages’: a more-than-human analysis	4
Medical hybridity and beyond: professional transitions in Italian outpatient settings	4
The social life of self-harm in general practice	4
Unruly bodies: resistance, (in)action and hysteresis in a public health intervention	4
From shame to blame: institutionalising oppression through the moralisation of mental distress in austerity England	3
Self-injury in social context: an emerging sociology	3
Patients’ knowledge and their trust in surgical doctors. A questionnaire-based study and a theoretical discussion from Norway	3
What shapes local health system actors’ thinking and action on social inequalities in health? A meta-ethnography	3
Exploring the significance of relationality, care and governmentality in families, for understanding women’s classed alcohol drinking practices	2
Revisiting rural healthcare access through Held’s ethics of care	2
When health is wealth: occupationally differentiated patterns of health capital in post-industrial Europe	2
Bodies need yoga? No plastic surgery! Naturalistic versus instrumental bodies among professions in the Danish healthcare field	2

Structural determination and social practice: towards a new understanding of ‘structure’ in health inequality research	1
Mindfulness meditation as “good medicine”: a new epistemological pluralism in health care	1
The challenges of rural family physician program in Iran: a discourse analysis of the introduction to criticizing power imbalance between rural health and mainstream urban health	1
Double perspective in the Colonial present	1
Neurasthenia and autonomic imbalance as minor diagnoses: comparison, concept and implications	1
The social gradient in smoking: individual behaviour, norms and nicotine dependence in the later stages of the cigarette epidemic	1
The changing governance of welfare: revisiting Jessop’s framework in the context of healthcare	1
An ecological and systems thinking approach for support to siblings with and without disabilities	1
How to make sense of cultural difference in mental health care: analyzing biographies of diasporic Muslim women with mental health problems	1
‘The almighty pill and the blessed healthcare provider’: medicalisation of mental distress from an Eliasian perspective	1
Earbuds, smartphones, and music. Spiritual care and existential changes in COVID-19 times	1
Affective relations of sleep in rehabilitation: cutting across social and biological divide to study how sleep comes to matter in rehabilitation	1
RETRACTED ARTICLE: The omnipresence of risk and associated harms in secure and forensic mental health services in England and Wales	1
An unproblematized truth: Foucault, biopolitics, and the making of a sociological canon	1
Habits and the socioeconomic patterning of health-related behaviour: a pragmatist perspective	1
How US newspapers view the UK’s NHS: a study in international lesson-drawing	1
The co-production of a workplace health promotion program: expected benefits, contested boundaries	1
“Not a lifestyle disease”: the importance of boundary work for the construction of a collective illness identity among people with type 1 diabetes	1