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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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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: 978‐1‐51776
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). ISBN61
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Body Odor and Biopolitics: Characterizing Smell in Neoliberal America29
‘Improving the odds for everybody’: Narrative and media in stem cell donor recruitment patient appeals, and the work to redress racial inequity28
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The power of family? Family social capital and the risk of externalising behaviours among youth with multiple childhood adversities24
Patient‐activist or ally? Assessing the effectiveness of conscience and beneficiary constituents in disease advocacy fundraising24
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
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 (eb21
COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities20
Experiential knowledge in mental health services: Analysing the enactment of expertise in peer support20
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 9780367193553.19
Reconfiguring Vulnerability and Dis/Ability: An Agential Realist Exploration to Disentangle Vulnerability Effects in Austria's COVID‐19 Response19
Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South19
The Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System19
Trust, affect, and choice in parents’ vaccination decision‐making and health‐care provider selection in Switzerland19
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The medicalisation of everyday life: A critical perspective17
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism. By L.Diedrich, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 150 pp. $10 (paperback); $4.95 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐45297122‐316
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
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The Political Sociology of NICE: Investigating Pharmaceutical Cost‐Effectiveness Regulation in the UK15
The global governance of pandemics15
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Data driven or data informed? How general practitioners use data to evaluate their own and colleagues’ clinical work in clusters15
Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients' access to PARP inhibitors14
Non‐binary genders: Navigating communities, identities, and healthcare. By BenVincent, Bristol: Policy Press. 2020. pp. 250. £26.99 (pbk); £79.99 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐144735192414
Conceptualising Lived Experience in Mental Health Research: Problems, Insights and Implications14
Can a disability studies‐medical sociology rapprochement help re‐value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation?14
Navigating Dementia: Political Materialities of Public Transport in the All‐Ageing Metropolis14
The needle pricking and two modes of ‘doing good’ in the Swedish school‐based human papillomavirus vaccination programme14
Social vulnerability and the impact of policy responses to COVID‐19 on disabled people13
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging13
Passive tolerance and productive uncertainties in food allergy immunotherapy biomedical practices13
1845 or 2023? Friedrich Engels’s insights into the health effects of Victorian‐era and contemporary Canadian capitalism13
From Cells to Organoids: Sociological Considerations for the Bioengineering of Human Models12
Let ‘Pregnant Women Choose the Destiny for Themselves and Their Child’. How Fertility Clinic Digital Platforms Frame Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) in Spain12
Misophonia matters: A case study of the role of brain imaging in debates over new diagnoses12
Hope: The Dream We Carry (2021)12
I am what I am?—An integrative review of understandings of ‘health identity’ and ‘illness identity’ in scientific literature12
The Golden Ticket? Widening Access in UK Medicine and the Making of an Emotional Proletariat12
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Frying eggs or making a treatment plan? Frictions between different modes of caring in a community mental health team11
Countering ‘the moral science of biopolitics’: Understanding hepatitis C treatment ‘non‐compliance’ in the antiviral era11
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
Extreme weight loss: Life before and after bariatric surgery11
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
The myth of the wrong body. By M.Missé, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2022. pp. 142. $50 (Cloth); $16.99 (pbk); $12.45 (ebk)11
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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
Where Are the Irish in Research on Ethnic Health Inequalities in Britain? A State‐Of‐The‐Art Literature Review10
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
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
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The challenges of coeliac disease at work: A contestation of the politics of inclusion10
The effects of disappearing social safety nets on inequalities in health10
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
“Am I in ‘Suboptimal Health’?”: The Narratives and Rhetoric in Carving out the Grey Area Between Health and Illness in Everyday Life9
Sitting as a moral practice: Older adults’ accounts from qualitative interviews on sedentary behaviours9
Sustaining relational subjectivity: The experience of women with dementia9
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
Routes into the homeopathic profession: Witnessing, gender and subaltern therapeutics9
COVID companions: Exploring pets as social support9
Proper distance in the age of social distancing: Hepatitis C treatment, telehealth and questions of care and responsibility9
Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction8
The importance of rhythms for maintaining consent in diagnostic encounters to detect cervical cancer8
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The Sociology of Diagnosis Index8
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), $28
The practice of participatory action research: Complicity, power and prestige in dialogue with the ‘racialised mad’8
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
Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity8
Regulating diagnosis—Molecular and regulatory sub‐stratifications of lung cancer treatment8
From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico8
Using social media as a platform to publicly disclose HIV status among people living with HIV: Control, identity, informing public dialogue8
The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–20228
Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries8
Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: Patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing7
Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of ‘competent’ parenting: A qualitative analysis7
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
Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study7
Navigating the uncertainties of next‐generation sequencing in the genetics clinic7
'Just have some IVF!': A longitudinal ethnographic study of couples' experiences of seeking fertility treatment7
Health Effects of Interpersonal and Structural Discrimination on Minority Groups in Europe7
Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity7
Aiming at the ‘proper’ body: How exoskeletons foster ‘risky’ bodies and conflicting knowledge regimes7
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
Complicity: Methodologies of power, politics and the ethics of knowledge production7
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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
E‐consultation as existential media: Exploring doctor‐patient ‘digital thrownness’ in Danish general practice7
Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the StatePetrUrbanLizzieWard (eds.) Cham, Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. 318pp. £79.99 (hbk) £54.99 (pbk) £63.99 (ebk) ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐41436‐86
Emotional labour as a vehicle of organisational change in maternity care: The case of Russian doulas' institutional work6
Researching the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations: Complicity, oppression and resistance6
Transforming Health Care with Qualitative Research6
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people6
When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere6
Correction to ‘Companions’ contributions to information gathering in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction’6
Precision patients: Selection practices and moral pathfinding in experimental oncology6
Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID6
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Childhood social capital and drug use disorder in adulthood: A retrospective study on antecedent determinants of the type of drug use6
Proposing a new history of grief’s medicalisation: A critical discourse analysis6
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Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review6
Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance6
The long tail of COVID and the tale of long COVID: Diagnostic construction and the management of ignorance6
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Negotiating Care: The Biographical Narratives of Young Adults Who Questioned Their Gender When Younger6
Changes of heart: Debating the role of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India, 1948–19686
Current challenges for doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, reprofessionalisation or fragmentation?6
Young onset Parkinson’s disease: Biographical disruption as a repetitive process5
Introduction to special issue: New dialogues between medical sociology and disability studies5
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences5
The Role of Algorithms in Molecular Tumour Boards—Managing the Gap Between Research and Clinic in Precision Medicine5
Black Lives Matter: Extended Special Section5
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
Divergent spender: State‐societal and meso‐organisational mechanisms in the containment of public spending on pharmaceuticals in a liberal capitalist democracy5
Edgework, institutions and enhanced interrogation5
Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority5
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Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools5
Knowledge, community and care: Digital biocitizenship in gestational diabetes5
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
Emotion work and emotional labour, neglected facets of parental health information work. Analysing mothers of neurodivergent children5
Theorising health equity research for people with intersex variance through new materialism5
At the limits of “capability”: The sexual and reproductive health of women migrant workers in Malaysia5
Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework5
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
‘You’re just a Guinea pig’: Exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long COVID‐19: A view from the undiagnosed5
Disparities in Urban Health: The Wounds of Policies and Legal DoctrinesBy Edward V.Wallace: John Hopkins Press, 2024. 194 pp. $38.95 (paperback). ISBN: 97814214456945
How companions speak on patients’ behalf without undermining their autonomy: Findings from a conversation analytic study of palliative care consultations5
‘It's not just to treat everybody the same’: A social justice framework for caring for larger patients in healthcare practice5
Young adults’ experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long COVID5
For better or worse: Governing healthcare organisations in times of financial distress5
The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice5
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
Physician dominance in the 21st century: Examining the rise of non‐physician autonomy through prevailing theoretical lenses4
Disorder or difference? How clinician‐patient interaction and patient age shape the process and meaning of autism diagnosis4
Between epistemic injustice and therapeutic jurisprudence: Coronial processes involving families of autistic people, people with learning disabilities and/or mental ill health4
Social support for the chronically ill during lockdown. Qualitative research in the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity. An intersectional approach4
‘Staying in the lane’ of public health? Boundary‐work in the roles of state health officials and experts in COVID‐19 policymaking4
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
Hearts in their hands—Physicians’ gestures embodying shared professional knowledge around the world4
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Travelling with Sugar: Chronicles of a global epidemic4
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Paragons, Mavericks and Innovators—A typology of orthopaedic surgeons' professional identities. A comparative case study of evidence‐based practice4
Capturing the smile: Exploring embodied and social acts of smiling4
Emotional Reflexivity and Lifelong Leisure Time Physical Activity: Managing ‘Successful Womanhood’ for Busy Middle‐Class Women4
Curating ‘the good story’: Care as representative performance in Danish veteran rehabilitation4
Empowerment or Control? Social Capital and Maternal Health Practices in Rural Ethiopia4
Mothers, milk and mourning: The meanings of breast milk after loss of an infant4
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Mapping mental health inequalities: The intersecting effects of gender, race, class, and ethnicity on ADHD diagnosis4
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Training the ageing bodies: New knowledge paradigms and professional practices in elderly care4
Towards an ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: Practising beyond the biopsychosocial model4
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Imaginaries of the data‐driven hospital in a time of crisis4
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: 978‐1474
The intensification of parenting and generational fracturing of spontaneous physical activity from childhood play in the United Kingdom4
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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