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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Conflict and antagonism within global psychiatry: A discourse analysis of organisational responses to the UN reports on rights‐based approaches in mental health99
Coalitions of touch: Balancing restraint and haptic soothing in the veterinary clinic66
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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). ISBN27
Institutional, humane, therapeutic: Towards an understanding of caregiver violence through third sector violence prevention discourse in Finland26
Disputes over the figures of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Epistemic diversity, dissemination of science, and political opposition24
Help‐seeking and access to care for stroke and heart attack during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A qualitative study23
Negotiating Care: The Biographical Narratives of Young Adults Who Questioned Their Gender When Younger22
Privileges, and Permissions: Theorising Intersectionality and Cultures of Control in the Care of People Living With Dementia in Acute Hospital Settings21
The pandemic divide: How COVID increased inequality in America. By Gwendolyn L.Wright, LucasHubbard, William A.Darity (Eds.), Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. pp. 312. $14.84 (ebk). ISBN: 9781478020
‘Improving the odds for everybody’: Narrative and media in stem cell donor recruitment patient appeals, and the work to redress racial inequity20
Platform encounters: A study of digitised patient follow‐up in HIV care19
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people19
Disease surveillance infrastructure and the economisation of public health18
Chemically Imbalanced: everyday suffering, medication and our troubled quest for self‐mastery17
Thanks to Reviewers – October 2021 to September 202217
The pandemic and the problem of compliance with safety measures: The case of Egypt16
The sociology of diagnosis: Critical distance16
Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One15
The paramedic at work: A sociology of a new profession. By McCannL., Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. pp. 272. £32.49 (hbk). ISBN 978‐0‐19‐881636‐215
Fight or flight? Exploring suicide thoughts, experiences, and behaviours among correctional workers and their interventions of agency15
Divided bodies: Lyme disease, contested illness and evidence‐based medicine15
Childhood social capital and drug use disorder in adulthood: A retrospective study on antecedent determinants of the type of drug use15
Motherhood on ice: The mating gap and why women freeze their eggs. By M. C.Inhorn, New York: NYU Press. 2023. pp. 352. £25.49 (pbk). ISBN: 147981304415
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Infrastructures of racial violence, health and debility14
Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond13
Taking care of our own: When family caregivers do medical work13
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Human papillomavirus self‐sampling: A tool in cancer prevention and sexual health promotion13
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Against All Odds. Psychosocial Distress and Healing Among Women. 1st edMahimaNayarNew Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd. 2019. 237 pp. ISBN: 978935328192212
Transforming Health Care with Qualitative Research12
Unintended Consequences of Electronic Medical Records An Emergency Room Ethnography Barbara Cook Overton Lexington Books Print ISBN 9781498567459, 1498567452, e‐text ISBN 9781498567466, 1498567460 pri12
Dying to Count: Post‐Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal Rutgers12
Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the StatePetrUrbanLizzieWard (eds.) Cham, Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. 318pp. £79.99 (hbk) £54.99 (pbk) £63.99 (ebk) ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐41436‐812
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Young onset Parkinson’s disease: Biographical disruption as a repetitive process11
‘It's just a matter of playing the odds’: Navigating risks associated with sexual behaviour in the COVID‐19 era11
Body Odor and Biopolitics: Characterizing Smell in Neoliberal America11
Battles over ‘unruly bodies’: Practitioners’ interpretations of eating disorders and the utility of psychiatric labelling11
The ritualisation of the surgical safety checklist and its decoupling from patient safety goals11
Frailty as biographical disruption11
Islam, assisted reproductive technology and the politics of emergence: When markets and hegemonies collide11
Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools10
Imaginaries of patienthood: Constructions of HIV patients by HIV specialist health professionals10
The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two‐generational, longitudinal approach10
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Compelled loneliness and necessitated social isolation: “It’s like being on the other side of a mirror, just looking in”10
Ageing and health: The politics of better policies. By Scott L.Greer, JuliaLynch, AaronReeves, MichelleFalkenbach, JaneGingrich, JonathanCylus, and ClareBambra, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 9
The power of family? Family social capital and the risk of externalising behaviours among youth with multiple childhood adversities9
Excitable models: Projections, targets, and the making of futures without disease9
Just go on the pill, the uneven burden of reproductive politics. By KrystaleLittlejohn, USA: University of California Press. 2021. pp. 179. ISBN: 97800‐520‐30745‐29
SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS9
Normative puzzles for local government: Managing the introduction of single‐handed care in England9
Just care: Messy entanglements of disability, dependency and desire. By A.Nishida, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2022. pp. 264. $110.50 (hardcover); $34.95 (pbk); $34.95 (ebk). EAN 97814399199
Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review9
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‘Black African’ identification and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Britain: A site for sociological, ethical and policy debate9
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: 978‐1‐5179
Stuck in separation: Liminality, graffiti arts and the forensic institution as a failed rite of passage9
Expressivist objections to prenatal screening and testing: Perceptions of people living with disability9
Epistemic injustice in experiences of young people with parents with mental health challenges8
The impossibility of engaged research: Complicity and accountability between researchers, ‘publics’ and institutions8
Turning the gaze: Digital patient feedback and the silent pathology of the NHS8
Understanding health inequalities through a practice‐oriented ‘capabilities’ perspective. Motherhood and leisure time physical activity8
Unsettling the treatment imperative? Chemotherapy decision‐making in the wake of genomic techniques8
Biological costs and benefits of social relationships for men and women in adulthood: The role of partner, family and friends8
Sensemaking in the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic: A narrative exploration of polarised morality in an NHS Trust8
Desire over damage: Epistemological shifts and anticolonial praxis from an indigenous‐led community health project8
Subordinated agency: Negotiating the biomedicalisation of masculinity among gay men living with HIV8
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: 978‐14473633928
Interrogating the promise of technology in epilepsy care: systematic, hermeneutic review8
Trust, affect, and choice in parents’ vaccination decision‐making and health‐care provider selection in Switzerland8
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 (eb8
Patient‐activist or ally? Assessing the effectiveness of conscience and beneficiary constituents in disease advocacy fundraising8
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences8
‘You’re just a Guinea pig’: Exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long COVID‐19: A view from the undiagnosed7
Reinventing the good life: An empirical contribution to the philosophy of care. By J.Pols, London: UCL Press. 2023. pp. 372. £45 (hbk); £30 (pbk); £0 (ebk). ISBN: 97818000860297
Health consequences of child removal among Indigenous and non‐Indigenous sex workers: Examining trajectories, mechanisms and resiliencies7
‘Becoming restrained’: Conceptualising restrictive practices in the care of people living with dementia in acute hospital settings7
Medicalising agents? Teachers’ uncertainty and emerging expertise in the age of inclusion policy and medicalisation in Israel7
Current challenges for doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, reprofessionalisation or fragmentation?7
Elite class self‐interest, socioeconomic inequality and U.S. population health7
Masculinities and men’s emotions in and after intimate partner relationships7
Changes of heart: Debating the role of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India, 1948–19687
Hospital corridors as lived spaces: The reconfiguration of social boundaries during the early stages of the Covid pandemic6
Like clockwork? (Re)imagining rhythms and routines when living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)6
Disruption, discontinuity and a licence to live: Responding to cancer diagnoses6
The (radical) role of belonging in shifting and expanding understandings of social inclusion for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities6
How artificial intelligence is reshaping the autonomy and boundary work of radiologists. A qualitative study6
When the wheels come off: Actor‐network therapy for mental health recovery in the bicycle repair workshop6
Proposing a new history of grief’s medicalisation: A critical discourse analysis6
Correction to ‘Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction’6
How companions speak on patients’ behalf without undermining their autonomy: Findings from a conversation analytic study of palliative care consultations6
Knowledge, community and care: Digital biocitizenship in gestational diabetes6
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A sociology of precision‐in‐practice: The affective and temporal complexities of everyday clinical care6
Drinking as affective labour: A discussion of Australian men working in hospitality and corporate workplaces6
Temp nurses go digital: Examining gig care in US nursing homes6
When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere6
Psychosocial resilience among left‐behind adolescents in rural Thailand: A qualitative exploration6
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A Socio‐Criminological Analysis of the HIV Epidemic. B.MeiniDelaware: Vernon Press, 2020. 158pp £33 (cloth) £27 (pbk) £55 (ebk) ISBN: 978‐1‐64889‐054‐35
Patient experience data as enacted: Sociomaterial perspectives and ‘singular‐multiples’ in health care quality improvement research5
COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities5
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Towards a sociological understanding of medical gaslighting in western health care5
Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South5
Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to PARP inhibitors5
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Epistemic in/justice in patient participation. A discourse analysis of the Dutch ME/CFS Health Council advisory process5
A Political–Economic Model of Community and Societal Health Resources: A 92‐Country Global Analysis5
The Choreography of Familial Bargaining: A Qualitative Study of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) Negotiation in China5
The Biomedical Empire: Lessons learned from the COVID‐19 pandemic. By B. K.Rothman, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2021. pp. 164. $14.00 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐5036‐2881‐65
Divergent spender: State‐societal and meso‐organisational mechanisms in the containment of public spending on pharmaceuticals in a liberal capitalist democracy5
Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing and Down Syndrome5
The Normalization of the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in South Africa. Katinkade Wet. London: Routledge, 2019. 170 pp £120 (cloth) £36.99 (pbk) £33.29 (ebk) ISBN 9780367193553.5
Black Lives Matter: Extended Special Section5
Navigating the Limits of Diagnosis: Young Adults' Experiences of Chronic Living5
Experiential knowledge in mental health services: Analysing the enactment of expertise in peer support5
The (commercialised) experience of operating: Embodied preferences, ambiguous variations and explaining widespread patient harm5
The Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System5
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Working diagnosis: The medical labour process and the classification of suffering4
Doing and undoing transgender health care: The ordering of ‘gender dysphoria’ in clinical practice4
Edgework, institutions and enhanced interrogation4
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Donors: Curious connections in donor conception. By PetraNordqvist, and LeahGilman, Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022. pp. 274. £24.00 (pbk). ISBN: 97818004356744
Theorising health equity research for people with intersex variance through new materialism4
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: 97813502501924
Sexual citizens: A landmark study of sex, power and assault on campus. By Jennifer A.Hirsch and ShamusKhan, New York: Norton and Company. 2023. 45(4), 395 pages. ISBN: 9781324001706 (hbk); £19.47 (hbk4
Varieties of improvement expertise: Knowledge and contestation in health‐care improvement4
Young adults’ experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long COVID4
Othering and ethics of belonging in migrants' embodied healthcare experiences4
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1845 or 2023? Friedrich Engels’s insights into the health effects of Victorian‐era and contemporary Canadian capitalism4
Disaggregating inequalities in the career outcomes of international medical graduates in the United States4
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Passive tolerance and productive uncertainties in food allergy immunotherapy biomedical practices4
Can a disability studies‐medical sociology rapprochement help re‐value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation?4
Cabin fever: Surviving lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic. By PaulCrawford and Jamie OrionCrawford, Bingley: Emerald Publishing. 2021. pp. 152. £16.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐80071‐355‐04
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Taking Care of Our Own: When Family Caregivers Do Medical Work4
Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, Alison, Emerald. 2022. 168pp. £65 (hbck). ISBN: 97818007174424
Tinkering with (in)visibilities: Caring for older people with surveillance technologies4
The transformation of health and social care: Insights from sociology4
Being just their hands? Personal assistance for disabled people as bodywork4
Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America. By DavidDranove and Lawton RobertBurns, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2021. pp. 336. $35 (cloth) $22.5 (pbk) $34.99 (ebk). I4
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: 978‐15292150694
Sick of social status: A Bourdieusian perspective on morbidity and health inequalities4
Gut Anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes. By A.Benezra, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. 266 pages (pbk). £21.99. ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐0130 (pbk); £90. ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐0129‐5 4
Non‐binary genders: Navigating communities, identities, and healthcare. By BenVincent, Bristol: Policy Press. 2020. pp. 250. £26.99 (pbk); £79.99 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐14473519244
Multimorbidity: Inequalities, lived experience and the need for service redesign4
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The medicalisation of everyday life: A critical perspective4
More than medicine: Nurse practitioners and the problems they solve for patients, health care organizations, and the state. By LaTonya J.Trotter, Ithaca, New York: ILR Press. 2020. 191 pages. $115.00 4
Religion and Health Care in East Africa: Lessons from Uganda, Mozambique and Ethiopia4
Socially stratified associations between self‐employment and health among Chilean older people4
Talking about borderline personality disorder, shaping care: The multiple doings of narratives4
Sleep, body work and bodily capital: Sleep discourse in the magazines Men's Health and Women's Health4
Curating ‘the good story’: Care as representative performance in Danish veteran rehabilitation4
Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework4
The needle pricking and two modes of ‘doing good’ in the Swedish school‐based human papillomavirus vaccination programme4
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