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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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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: 978‐1‐51767
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). ISBN42
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Body Odor and Biopolitics: Characterizing Smell in Neoliberal America30
Experiential knowledge in mental health services: Analysing the enactment of expertise in peer support29
Trust, affect, and choice in parents’ vaccination decision‐making and health‐care provider selection in Switzerland29
‘Improving the odds for everybody’: Narrative and media in stem cell donor recruitment patient appeals, and the work to redress racial inequity25
The power of family? Family social capital and the risk of externalising behaviours among youth with multiple childhood adversities23
Patient‐activist or ally? Assessing the effectiveness of conscience and beneficiary constituents in disease advocacy fundraising23
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 (eb22
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
Reconfiguring Vulnerability and Dis/Ability: An Agential Realist Exploration to Disentangle Vulnerability Effects in Austria's COVID‐19 Response21
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Racialised Immigrant Health: The Association Between Previous Documentation Status and Self‐Reported Health Among Immigrants With Lawful Permanent Resident Status20
Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South19
COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities19
The Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System17
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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
Data driven or data informed? How general practitioners use data to evaluate their own and colleagues’ clinical work in clusters16
The medicalisation of everyday life: A critical perspective16
Navigating Dementia: Political Materialities of Public Transport in the All‐Ageing Metropolis16
Conceptualising Lived Experience in Mental Health Research: Problems, Insights and Implications15
Can a disability studies‐medical sociology rapprochement help re‐value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation?15
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Social vulnerability and the impact of policy responses to COVID‐19 on disabled people15
Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to PARP inhibitors15
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism. By L.Diedrich, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 150 pp. $10 (paperback); $4.95 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐45297122‐315
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
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
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1845 or 2023? Friedrich Engels’s insights into the health effects of Victorian‐era and contemporary Canadian capitalism13
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The Political Sociology of NICE: Investigating Pharmaceutical Cost‐Effectiveness Regulation in the UK13
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging13
Misophonia matters: A case study of the role of brain imaging in debates over new diagnoses12
Inequality, Trust and Fear: Migrant Healthcare During the COVID‐19 Pandemic and Beyond12
From Cells to Organoids: Sociological Considerations for the Bioengineering of Human Models12
The Golden Ticket? Widening Access in UK Medicine and the Making of an Emotional Proletariat12
I am what I am?—An integrative review of understandings of ‘health identity’ and ‘illness identity’ in scientific literature12
Hope: The Dream We Carry (2021)12
Let ‘Pregnant Women Choose the Destiny for Themselves and Their Child’. How Fertility Clinic Digital Platforms Frame Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) in Spain12
Countering ‘the moral science of biopolitics’: Understanding hepatitis C treatment ‘non‐compliance’ in the antiviral era12
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
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: 978‐1‐4780‐1527‐711
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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: 978‐1‐5179‐10511
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
COVID companions: Exploring pets as social support10
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
Routes into the homeopathic profession: Witnessing, gender and subaltern therapeutics10
The effects of disappearing social safety nets on inequalities in health10
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
Proper distance in the age of social distancing: Hepatitis C treatment, telehealth and questions of care and responsibility10
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: 978152616226710
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Regulating diagnosis—Molecular and regulatory sub‐stratifications of lung cancer treatment9
From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico9
Reconciling healthism and techno‐solutionism: An observational study of a digital mental health trial9
Re‐ordering connections: UK healthcare workers' experiences of emotion management during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction9
The importance of rhythms for maintaining consent in diagnostic encounters to detect cervical cancer9
Sitting as a moral practice: Older adults’ accounts from qualitative interviews on sedentary behaviours9
Sustaining relational subjectivity: The experience of women with dementia9
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
Using social media as a platform to publicly disclose HIV status among people living with HIV: Control, identity, informing public dialogue9
“Am I in ‘Suboptimal Health’?”: The Narratives and Rhetoric in Carving out the Grey Area Between Health and Illness in Everyday Life9
The challenges of coeliac disease at work: A contestation of the politics of inclusion8
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'Just have some IVF!': A longitudinal ethnographic study of couples' experiences of seeking fertility treatment8
Navigating the uncertainties of next‐generation sequencing in the genetics clinic8
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
The practice of participatory action research: Complicity, power and prestige in dialogue with the ‘racialised mad’8
The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–20228
Complicity: Methodologies of power, politics and the ethics of knowledge production8
The Sociology of Diagnosis Index8
Where Are the Irish in Research on Ethnic Health Inequalities in Britain? A State‐Of‐The‐Art Literature Review8
Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries8
Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of ‘competent’ parenting: A qualitative analysis8
Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity8
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
Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: Patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing7
Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID7
Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity7
E‐consultation as existential media: Exploring doctor‐patient ‘digital thrownness’ in Danish general practice7
Emotional labour as a vehicle of organisational change in maternity care: The case of Russian doulas' institutional work7
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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
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
Health Effects of Interpersonal and Structural Discrimination on Minority Groups in Europe7
Aiming at the ‘proper’ body: How exoskeletons foster ‘risky’ bodies and conflicting knowledge regimes7
Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study7
Proposing a new history of grief’s medicalisation: A critical discourse analysis6
Current challenges for doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, reprofessionalisation or fragmentation?6
Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review6
Correction to ‘Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction’6
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Changes of heart: Debating the role of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India, 1948–19686
Young onset Parkinson’s disease: Biographical disruption as a repetitive process6
When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere6
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences6
The long tail of COVID and the tale of long COVID: Diagnostic construction and the management of ignorance6
Transforming Health Care with Qualitative Research6
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
Negotiating Care: The Biographical Narratives of Young Adults Who Questioned Their Gender When Younger6
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people6
Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools6
Childhood social capital and drug use disorder in adulthood: A retrospective study on antecedent determinants of the type of drug use6
Precision patients: Selection practices and moral pathfinding in experimental oncology6
Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance6
The Role of Algorithms in Molecular Tumour Boards—Managing the Gap Between Research and Clinic in Precision Medicine6
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‘You’re just a Guinea pig’: Exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long COVID‐19: A view from the undiagnosed5
‘It's not just to treat everybody the same’: A social justice framework for caring for larger patients in healthcare practice5
Empowerment or Control? Social Capital and Maternal Health Practices in Rural Ethiopia5
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Paragons, Mavericks and Innovators—A typology of orthopaedic surgeons' professional identities. A comparative case study of evidence‐based practice5
Emotion work and emotional labour, neglected facets of parental health information work. Analysing mothers of neurodivergent children5
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
Theorising health equity research for people with intersex variance through new materialism5
Black Lives Matter: Extended Special Section5
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
Knowledge, community and care: Digital biocitizenship in gestational diabetes5
‘Staying in the lane’ of public health? Boundary‐work in the roles of state health officials and experts in COVID‐19 policymaking5
Towards an ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: Practising beyond the biopsychosocial model5
Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post‐COVID Syndrome in Brazil5
Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity. An intersectional approach5
Imaginaries of the data‐driven hospital in a time of crisis5
For better or worse: Governing healthcare organisations in times of financial distress5
Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework5
How companions speak on patients’ behalf without undermining their autonomy: Findings from a conversation analytic study of palliative care consultations5
Introduction to special issue: New dialogues between medical sociology and disability studies5
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
‘I just wanted a change, a positive change’: Locating hope for young people engaged with residential alcohol and drug services in Victoria, Australia5
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: 978‐1475
The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice5
Edgework, institutions and enhanced interrogation5
Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority5
Young adults’ experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long COVID5
Curating ‘the good story’: Care as representative performance in Danish veteran rehabilitation5
Capturing the smile: Exploring embodied and social acts of smiling4
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
Emotional Reflexivity and Lifelong Leisure Time Physical Activity: Managing ‘Successful Womanhood’ for Busy Middle‐Class Women4
Hearts in their hands—Physicians’ gestures embodying shared professional knowledge around the world4
When the Place of Care Is Hybrid: An Ethnographic Study of Hospital Video Consultations4
How a ‘good parent’ decides on childhood vaccination. Demonstrating independence and deliberation during Dutch healthcare visits4
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Travelling with Sugar: Chronicles of a global epidemic4
Disorder or difference? How clinician‐patient interaction and patient age shape the process and meaning of autism diagnosis4
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
Between epistemic injustice and therapeutic jurisprudence: Coronial processes involving families of autistic people, people with learning disabilities and/or mental ill health4
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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
Processes underpinning survival in gay men living with HIV and a history of suicidality4
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 (ebook4
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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
Social support for the chronically ill during lockdown. Qualitative research in the COVID‐19 pandemic4
The intensification of parenting and generational fracturing of spontaneous physical activity from childhood play in the United Kingdom4
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