Sociology of Health & Illness

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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). ISBN	78
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: 978‐1‐517	39
Thanks to Reviewers – October 2021 to September 2022	36
Reconfiguring Vulnerability and Dis/Ability: An Agential Realist Exploration to Disentangle Vulnerability Effects in Austria's COVID‐19 Response	32
Racialised Immigrant Health: The Association Between Previous Documentation Status and Self‐Reported Health Among Immigrants With Lawful Permanent Resident Status	30
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Patient‐activist or ally? Assessing the effectiveness of conscience and beneficiary constituents in disease advocacy fundraising	25
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 (eb	23
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: 978‐1447363392	22
The power of family? Family social capital and the risk of externalising behaviours among youth with multiple childhood adversities	21
COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities	20
‘Improving the odds for everybody’: Narrative and media in stem cell donor recruitment patient appeals, and the work to redress racial inequity	20
New Editorial Team	19
Non‐binary genders: Navigating communities, identities, and healthcare. By BenVincent, Bristol: Policy Press. 2020. pp. 250. £26.99 (pbk); £79.99 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1447351924	19
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The Political Sociology of NICE: Investigating Pharmaceutical Cost‐Effectiveness Regulation in the UK	18
Cabin fever: Surviving lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic. By PaulCrawford and Jamie OrionCrawford, Bingley: Emerald Publishing. 2021. pp. 152. £16.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐80071‐355‐0	17
The needle pricking and two modes of ‘doing good’ in the Swedish school‐based human papillomavirus vaccination programme	17
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Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism. By L.Diedrich, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 150 pp. $10 (paperback); $4.95 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐45297122‐3	16
Data driven or data informed? How general practitioners use data to evaluate their own and colleagues’ clinical work in clusters	15
Passive tolerance and productive uncertainties in food allergy immunotherapy biomedical practices	15
Transitions in and out of Loneliness During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Latent Class Analysis of Older Adults in England	15
Coordinating the Medical Division of Labour: The Travails of Electronic Patient Records in the United Kingdom and United States	15

Disentangling Responsibility: Perspectives on Dementia Prevention From Stakeholders in Canada, Germany and Switzerland	15
Temporal Attunements of Care: Scrutinising Counselling Practices in the Context of Prenatal Testing and Abortion	15
Navigating Dementia: Political Materialities of Public Transport in the All‐Ageing Metropolis	15
Conceptualising Lived Experience in Mental Health Research: Problems, Insights and Implications	14
Misophonia matters: A case study of the role of brain imaging in debates over new diagnoses	14
Misunderstood, Minimised, Misrepresented: Autistic Young Adults' Experiences of Epistemic Injustices in Healthcare Interactions Around Autism	14
Reverse Healthism and Antiscience Healthism: New Modes of Healthism in the Misinformation and COVID‐19 Era	14
Can a disability studies‐medical sociology rapprochement help re‐value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation?	14
1845 or 2023? Friedrich Engels’s insights into the health effects of Victorian‐era and contemporary Canadian capitalism	14
The Golden Ticket? Widening Access in UK Medicine and the Making of an Emotional Proletariat	14
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: 978‐1‐5179‐105	13
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: 978‐1‐4780‐1527‐7	13
Let ‘Pregnant Women Choose the Destiny for Themselves and Their Child’. How Fertility Clinic Digital Platforms Frame Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) in Spain	13
Shifting Expectations of Novel Immunotherapy Treatments in Oncology: Practitioners' and Patients' Calibration Work in Conditions of Uncertainty	13
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). IS	12
From Cells to Organoids: Sociological Considerations for the Bioengineering of Human Models	12
The myth of the wrong body. By M.Missé, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2022. pp. 142. $50 (Cloth); $16.99 (pbk); $12.45 (ebk)	12
Countering ‘the moral science of biopolitics’: Understanding hepatitis C treatment ‘non‐compliance’ in the antiviral era	12
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I am what I am?—An integrative review of understandings of ‘health identity’ and ‘illness identity’ in scientific literature	12
Inequality, Trust and Fear: Migrant Healthcare During the COVID‐19 Pandemic and Beyond	12
Reproductive injustice: Racism, pregnancy and premature birth. By Dána‐AinDavis, New York: New York University Press. 2019. pp. 251. $89 (clo); $30 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐4798‐5357‐1	11
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: 978‐1‐5179‐1172‐0	11
The challenges of coeliac disease at work: A contestation of the politics of inclusion	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: 9781526162267	11
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), $2	11
Regulating diagnosis—Molecular and regulatory sub‐stratifications of lung cancer treatment	11
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The effects of disappearing social safety nets on inequalities in health	11
Where Are the Irish in Research on Ethnic Health Inequalities in Britain? A State‐Of‐The‐Art Literature Review	11
The importance of rhythms for maintaining consent in diagnostic encounters to detect cervical cancer	10
Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction	10
“Am I in ‘Suboptimal Health’?”: The Narratives and Rhetoric in Carving out the Grey Area Between Health and Illness in Everyday Life	10
Proper distance in the age of social distancing: Hepatitis C treatment, telehealth and questions of care and responsibility	10
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Sustaining relational subjectivity: The experience of women with dementia	10
Non‐Directiveness and Authenticity in the Predictive Genetic Clinic	10
Reconciling healthism and techno‐solutionism: An observational study of a digital mental health trial	10
From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico	9
Biographical Discovery, Affirmation, and Disruption: Trans and Nonbinary Peoples' Experiences Negotiating Gender and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome	9
The Sociology of Diagnosis Index	9
Complicity: Methodologies of power, politics and the ethics of knowledge production	9
Challenging Health Citizenship: Digital Health Engagement Among the Oldest Age Groups	9
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: 978‐1‐5261‐52	9
Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them. By D. M.Tober, New York: Routledge, 2024. 326 pp. £121.50 (hardcover); £14.39 (paperback); £14.39 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐25	9
The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–2022	9
The practice of participatory action research: Complicity, power and prestige in dialogue with the ‘racialised mad’	9
Rethinking ‘Strengths’ in Youth Health Research	9
COVID companions: Exploring pets as social support	9
What Makes a Sexually Transmitted Infection? Discrepant Frames in United States Mpox Discourse and Public Health Response	9

Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity	8
Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female. By S.King, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. 240pp. £80 (cloth), £19.99 (pbk), £19.99 (ebk). ISBN 978‐1‐44‐737163‐2	8
Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID	8
(Re)considering Discourses of Risk and Responsibility Through the Lens of Healthism: Interpreting the International Response to a Global Health Strategy for Noncommunicable Diseases	8
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;	8
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	8
Navigating the uncertainties of next‐generation sequencing in the genetics clinic	8
The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far. By S.O'Sullivan, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2025. 304 pp. £22 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐39‐981963‐3	8
Aiming at the ‘proper’ body: How exoskeletons foster ‘risky’ bodies and conflicting knowledge regimes	8
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Health behaviours and COVID‐19 prevention among immigrants in the United States	7
Be the mother, not the daughter: Immigrant Chinese women, postpartum care knowledge, and mothering autonomy	7
Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study	7
Health Effects of Interpersonal and Structural Discrimination on Minority Groups in Europe	7
Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection. By J.Jayawickrama and J.Wright, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 149 pp. €129.99 (hbk); €106.99 (ebk). ISBN 978‐3‐031‐78257‐2	7
Emotional labour as a vehicle of organisational change in maternity care: The case of Russian doulas' institutional work	7
Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity	7
The long tail of COVID and the tale of long COVID: Diagnostic construction and the management of ignorance	7
E‐consultation as existential media: Exploring doctor‐patient ‘digital thrownness’ in Danish general practice	7
Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance	7
Changes of heart: Debating the role of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India, 1948–1968	6
‘You’re just a Guinea pig’: Exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long COVID‐19: A view from the undiagnosed	6
Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools	6
Knowledge, community and care: Digital biocitizenship in gestational diabetes	6
Correction to ‘Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction’	6
Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review	6
Recognition and Risk: Ethnic Monitoring, Healthcare Access and Everyday Discrimination in Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities in the UK	6
Childhood social capital and drug use disorder in adulthood: A retrospective study on antecedent determinants of the type of drug use	6
Providing Hope or Assigning Blame? Healthism in Print Media Portrayals of Dementia Risk and Responsibility	6
Anything but Endo: Diagnostic Buck‐Passing in Endometriosis Diagnosis	6
The Role of Algorithms in Molecular Tumour Boards—Managing the Gap Between Research and Clinic in Precision Medicine	6
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people	6
When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere	6
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Negotiating Care: The Biographical Narratives of Young Adults Who Questioned Their Gender When Younger	6
Immunitary Life in COVID‐19 Times: Understandings, Practices and Experiences Among Members of Marginalised Social Groups	6
Current challenges for doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, reprofessionalisation or fragmentation?	6
Disparities in Urban Health: The Wounds of Policies and Legal DoctrinesBy Edward V.Wallace: John Hopkins Press, 2024. 194 pp. $38.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781421445694	6
At the Right Time: Temporal Precision in Personalised Medicine	6
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Digital Primary Care Services, Procedural Justice and Intersectionality: A Critical Realist Approach	5
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: 9781350250192	5
Gut Healthism: The Penetrating Gaze and Depoliticising Forces of Direct‐to‐Consumer Microbiome Testing Kits	5
‘I just wanted a change, a positive change’: Locating hope for young people engaged with residential alcohol and drug services in Victoria, Australia	5
Empowerment or Control? Social Capital and Maternal Health Practices in Rural Ethiopia	5
Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority	5
Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework	5
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: 978	5
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences	5
From Biographical Disruption to Oscillation: Exploring Illness Identity Tensions Among Young Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in China	5
Curating ‘the good story’: Care as representative performance in Danish veteran rehabilitation	5
Deus Ex Machina: An Ethnographic Exploration of Technology, Death and Decision‐Making in Respiratory Care	5
Young adults’ experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long COVID	5
Theorising health equity research for people with intersex variance through new materialism	5
Building and Boosting Capitals for Health Care Access: A Qualitative Study of Homeless Health Peer Advocacy in London, UK	5
Emotion work and emotional labour, neglected facets of parental health information work. Analysing mothers of neurodivergent children	5
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: 978‐1529215069	5
Buying Time: Incurable Prognosis, Temporal Uncertainty and the Costs of Metastatic Breast Cancer	5
Proposing a new history of grief’s medicalisation: A critical discourse analysis	5
For better or worse: Governing healthcare organisations in times of financial distress	5
The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice	5
‘Staying in the lane’ of public health? Boundary‐work in the roles of state health officials and experts in COVID‐19 policymaking	5
Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity. An intersectional approach	5
Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post‐COVID Syndrome in Brazil	5
Introduction to special issue: New dialogues between medical sociology and disability studies	5
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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: 978‐1‐80008‐743‐9	4
Edgework, institutions and enhanced interrogation	4
Mothers, milk and mourning: The meanings of breast milk after loss of an infant	4
Transformed States: Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990–2020. By M.Halliwell, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2025. 380 pp. $99.85 (hardcover) ISBN: 978‐1‐97881787‐6	4
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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: 978‐147	4
Between epistemic injustice and therapeutic jurisprudence: Coronial processes involving families of autistic people, people with learning disabilities and/or mental ill health	4
Towards an ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: Practising beyond the biopsychosocial model	4
Hearts in their hands—Physicians’ gestures embodying shared professional knowledge around the world	4
Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities. By L.Olsen, New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 312 pp. $140 (hard); $35 (pbk); $34.99 (ebk). ISBN: 978‐0‐23‐120787‐4	4
Emotional Reflexivity and Lifelong Leisure Time Physical Activity: Managing ‘Successful Womanhood’ for Busy Middle‐Class Women	4
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
Neoliberal Governance and Agribusiness Influence: Public Health Policymaking and the Risk to Meatpacking Workers During COVID‐19	4
The intensification of parenting and generational fracturing of spontaneous physical activity from childhood play in the United Kingdom	4

Imaginaries of the data‐driven hospital in a time of crisis	4
Capturing the smile: Exploring embodied and social acts of smiling	4
Disorder or difference? How clinician‐patient interaction and patient age shape the process and meaning of autism diagnosis	4
Social support for the chronically ill during lockdown. Qualitative research in the COVID‐19 pandemic	4