Sociology of Health & Illness

Article	Citations
Beyond deficit: ‘strengths‐based approaches’ in Indigenous health research	59
Health inequalities, fundamental causes and power: towards the practice of good theory	37
Gender, socioeconomic status, and COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy in the US: An intersectionality approach	33
Understanding and managing uncertainty in health care: revisiting and advancing sociological contributions	32
Can digital data diagnose mental health problems? A sociological exploration of ‘digital phenotyping’	29
Social networks and health in later life: a state of the literature	29
Towards a sociological understanding of medical gaslighting in western health care	28
Masculinities, emotions and men’s suicide	25
“No one associates alcohol with being in good health”: Health and wellbeing as imperatives to manage alcohol use for young people	25
Populism and health policy: three international case studies of right‐wing populist policy frames	24
Media framing of fighting COVID‐19 in China	22
Exclusion and hospitality: the subtle dynamics of stigma in healthcare access for people emerging from alcohol and other drug treatment	22
Trust, affect, and choice in parents’ vaccination decision‐making and health‐care provider selection in Switzerland	19
Coronavirus (COVID‐19), pandemic psychology and the fractured society: a sociological case for critique, foresight and action	19
Feeding inequality: food insecurity, social status and college student health	19
Learning to manage uncertainty: supervision, trust and autonomy in residency training	18
Race/ethnicity, gender and the SES gradient in BMI: The diminishing returns of SES for racial/ethnic minorities	18
Patient data work: filtering and sensing patient‐reported outcomes	18
Fertility and digital technology: narratives of using smartphone app ‘Natural Cycles’ while trying to conceive	17
Intersectional analysis of cannabis use, stigma and health among marginalized Nigerian women	16
‘Willy nilly’ doctors, bad patients, and resistant bodies in general public explanations of antimicrobial resistance	16
Emerging contaminants, coerced ignorance and environmental health concerns: The case of per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)	16
The diffusion of innovative diabetes technologies as a fundamental cause of social inequalities in health. The Nord‐Trøndelag Health Study, Norway	16
‘That thing in his head’: Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal Australian caregiver responses to neurodevelopmental disability diagnoses	15
Children's active outdoor play: ‘good’ mothering and the organisation of children's free time	15

Non‐human matter, health disparities and a thousand tiny dis/advantages	15
What does the literature mean by social prescribing? A critical review using discourse analysis	15
Re‐ordering connections: UK healthcare workers' experiences of emotion management during the COVID‐19 pandemic	14
What would it take to meaningfully attend to ethnicity and race in health research? Learning from a trial intervention development study	14
The violence of narrative: embodying responsibility for poverty‐related stress	14
Destabilising social inclusion and recovery, and pursuing 'lines of flight' in the mental health sector	14
How men step back – and recover – from suicide attempts: A relational and gendered account	14
Why doesn’t integrated care work? Using Strong Structuration Theory to explain the limitations of an English case	13
A sociology of precision‐in‐practice: The affective and temporal complexities of everyday clinical care	13
The COVID‐19 pandemic and cause of death	13
Implications of internalised ableism for the health and wellbeing of disabled young people	13
Air care: an ‘aerography’ of breath, buildings and bugs in the cystic fibrosis clinic	13
Place of alcohol in the ‘wellness toolkits’ of midlife women in different social classes: A qualitative study in South Australia	13
‘And breathe…’? The sociology of health and illness in COVID‐19 time	13
‘You Have to Withstand That Because You Have Come for What You Have Come for’: Barriers and facilitators to antiretroviral treatment access among older South Africans living with HIV	12
‘You're just a locum’: professional identity and temporary workers in the medical profession	12
Body mass index is just a number: Conflating riskiness and unhealthiness in discourse on body size	12
Essentially invisible: risk and personal support workers in the time of COVID‐19	12
Universal HIV testing and treatment and HIV stigma reduction: a comparative thematic analysis of qualitative data from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial in South Africa and Zambia	11
In a vigilant state of chronic disruption: how parents with a young child with type 1 diabetes negotiate events and moments of uncertainty	11
Social vulnerability and the impact of policy responses to COVID‐19 on disabled people	11
Tracking towards care: Relational affordances of self‐tracking in gym culture	11
Women’s empowerment and their experience to food security in rural Bangladesh	11
Frailty as biographical disruption	11
Experiences and implications of smartphone apps for depression and anxiety	11
‘You're basically calling doctors torturers’: stakeholder framing issues around naming intersex rights claims as human rights abuses	11
How does cultural capital keep you thin? Exploring unique aspects of cultural class that link social advantage to lower body mass index	10
Discussing the effects of prostate cancer beyond biographical disruption and new normalcy: the experiences of men with prostate cancer in Germany	10
A delicate balance between control and flexibility: Experiences of care and support among pre‐teenage children with type 1 diabetes and their families	10
Delivering healthcare’s ‘triple aim’: electronic health records and the health research participant in the UK National Health Service	10
Negotiating identities of ‘responsible drinking’: Exploring accounts of alcohol consumption of working mothers in their early parenting period	9
Obese societies: Reconceptualising the challenge for public health	9
Material Citizenship: An ethnographic study exploring object–person relations in the context of people with dementia in care homes	9
The impossibility of engaged research: Complicity and accountability between researchers, ‘publics’ and institutions	9
Shame in a post‐socialist society: a qualitative study of healthcare seeking and utilisation in common mental disorders	9
Feeling less alone online: patients’ ambivalent engagements with digital media	9
Wild data: how front‐line hospital staff make sense of patients’ experiences	9
Biological costs and benefits of social relationships for men and women in adulthood: The role of partner, family and friends	9
Hepatitis C cure as a ‘gathering’: Attending to the social and material relations of hepatitis C treatment	9
Desynchronised times? Chronobiology, (bio)medicalisation and the rhythms of life itself	9
Excitable models: Projections, targets, and the making of futures without disease	9
Exploring the relevance of intersectionality in Australian dietetics: Issues of diversity and representation	8
Is the end in sight? A study of how and why services are decommissioned in the English National Health Service	8
“We’re just stuck in a daily routine”: Implications of the temporal dimensions, demands and dispositions of mothering for leisure time physical activity	8
Community pharmacy and public health: preserving professionalism by extending the pharmacy gaze?	8
Professional boundary struggles in the context of healthcare change: the relational and symbolic constitution of nursing ethos in the space of possible professionalisation	8
Ambivalent anticipation: How people with Alzheimer’s disease value diagnosis in current and envisioned future practices	8
Structuring unequal relations: role trajectories in informal dementia care	8
Doing good: autonomy in the margins of welfare	8
Family imaginaries in the disclosure of a blood‐borne virus	8

Managing death: navigating divergent logics in end‐of‐life care	8
Experiential expertise in the co‐development of social and health‐care services: Self‐promotion and self‐dismissal as interactional strategies	8
Managing (im) patience of nurses and nurse's aides: Emotional labour and normalizing practices at geriatric facilities	8
Precision patients: Selection practices and moral pathfinding in experimental oncology	7
“They created a team of almost entirely the people who work and are like them”: A qualitative study of organisational culture and racialised inequalities among healthcare staff	7
‘A holistic approach’: incorporating sustainability into biopedagogies of healthy eating in Sweden’s dietary guidelines	7
Obligatory medical prescription of antibiotics in Russia: Navigating formal and informal health‐care infrastructures	7
Effect of caste on health, independent of economic disparity: evidence from school children of two rural districts of India	7
‘You're only there on the phone’? A qualitative exploration of community, affect and agential capacity in HIV self‐testing using a smartphone app	7
Platform encounters: A study of digitised patient follow‐up in HIV care	7
Sitting as a moral practice: Older adults’ accounts from qualitative interviews on sedentary behaviours	7
Triage as an infrastructure of care: The intimate work of redistributing medical care in nursing homes	7
Depressive symptoms and perception of risk during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic: A web‐based cross‐country comparative survey	7
Mindfulness and the ‘psychological imagination’	7
‘Your wealth is your health’: the fundamental causes of inequalities in diabetes management outcomes: a qualitative analysis	7
Impact of COVID‐19 inequalities on children: An intersectional analysis	7
How companions speak on patients’ behalf without undermining their autonomy: Findings from a conversation analytic study of palliative care consultations	7
Intra‐familial health polarisation: how diverse health concerns become barriers to health behaviour change in families with preschool children and emerging obesity	7
Health consequences of child removal among Indigenous and non‐Indigenous sex workers: Examining trajectories, mechanisms and resiliencies	7
Forms of resistance in people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities	7
Enacting evidence‐based medicine in fertility care: Tensions between commercialisation and knowledge standardisation	7
Assembling care: How nurses organise care in uncharted territory and in times of pandemic	7
Making sense of experiences in suicide helpline calls: Offering empathy without endorsing suicidal ideation	7
Drug fatalities and treatment fatalism: Complicating the ageing cohort theory	7
The ‘normality’ of living as a gay serodiscordant couple in Sydney, Australia	7
The mask trap: from symbol of preparation to symbol of negligence—understanding the ambiguous relationships between face masks and the French public decision‐makers1	7
Attending to child agency in paediatric palliative care consultations: Adults’ use of tag questions directed to the child	7
Frying eggs or making a treatment plan? Frictions between different modes of caring in a community mental health team	7
The impact of financialisation on public health in times of COVID‐19 and beyond	6
Experiences of face mask use during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A qualitative study	6
Understanding self‐construction of health among the slum dwellers of India: a culture‐centred approach	6
Is it an issue before it’s a problem? Investigating men’s talk about fertility	6
Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study	6
An ethnocultural perspective on loneliness in young adulthood: A population‐based study in Israel	6
A ‘patient–industry complex’? Investigating the financial dependency of UK patient organisations on drug company funding	6
Uncomfortable science: How mathematical models, and consensus, come to be in public policy	6
Mapping mental health inequalities: The intersecting effects of gender, race, class, and ethnicity on ADHD diagnosis	6
Performing care: emotion work and ‘dignity work’ – a joint autoethnography of caring for our mum at the end of life	6
Moral barriers to HIV prevention and care for gay and bisexual men: Challenges in times of conservatism in Brazil	6
The health effects of wage setting institutions: How collective bargaining improves health but not because it reduces inequality	6
Knowing (with) the body: Sensory knowing in contraceptive self‐tracking	6
Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: Patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing	6
Burnout as an identity rupture in the life course: a longitudinal narrative method	6
Interrogating inclusion with youths who use augmentative and alternative communication	6
‘My relationships have changed because I’ve changed’: biographical disruption, personal relationships and the formation of an early menopausal subjectivity	6
From more‐than‐human solidarity to multi‐species biographical value: insights from a veterinary school about ethical dilemmas in One Health promotion	6
Linking socioeconomic disadvantage to healthiness of food practices: Can a practice‐theoretical perspective sharpen everyday life analysis?	6
COVID‐19, public health, and the politics of prevention	6
Men, chronic illness and healthwork: accounts from male partners of women with endometriosis	6
The social meanings of PrEP use – A mixed‐method study of PrEP use disclosure in Antwerp and Amsterdam	6
In their own words: A narrative analysis of illness memoirs written by men with prostate cancer	6
From ‘dirty wound care’ to ‘woundology’: A professional project for wound healing clinicians	6
Epistemic injustices in clinical communication: the example of narrative elicitation in person‐centred care	6
Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of ‘competent’ parenting: A qualitative analysis	5
Negotiating the ‘buffet’ of choice: advances in technology and end‐of‐life decision‐making in the intensive care unit setting	5
The optics of noncommunicable diseases: from lifestyle to environmental toxicity	5
Physician dominance in the 21st century: Examining the rise of non‐physician autonomy through prevailing theoretical lenses	5
Epistemic in/justice in patient participation. A discourse analysis of the Dutch ME/CFS Health Council advisory process	5
Black knowledges matter: How the suppression of non‐white understandings of dementia harms us all and how we can combat it	5
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment: a sociological perspective on tackling a contemporary healthcare issue	5
Prescribing as affective clinical practice: Transformations in sexual health consultations through HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis	5
Stigma, mental illness & ethnicity: Time to centre racism and structural stigma	5
Advising without personalising: how a helpline may satisfy callers without giving medical advice beyond its remit	5
Theorising rehabilitation: Actors and parameters shaping normality, liminality and depersonalisation in a UK hospital	5
The practice of participatory action research: Complicity, power and prestige in dialogue with the ‘racialised mad’	5
Can HIV‐positive gay men become parents? How men living with HIV and HIV clinicians talk about the possibility of having children	5
Appraising screening, making risk in/visible. The medical debate over Non‐Rare Thrombophilia (NRT) testing before prescribing the pill	5
Patient experience data as enacted: Sociomaterial perspectives and ‘singular‐multiples’ in health care quality improvement research	5
Inter‐professional practice in the prevention and management of child and adolescent self‐harm: foster carers’ and residential carers’ negotiation of expertise and professional identity	5
Biologically infallible? Men’s views on male age‐related fertility decline and sperm freezing	5
Fat shaming under neoliberalism and COVID‐19: Examining the UK’s Tackling Obesity campaign	5
Health technology identities and self. Patients’ appropriation of an assistive device for self‐management of chronic illness	5
An incongruous intervention: Exploring the role of anti‐institutionalism in less‐educated individual’s limited uptake of nutrition information	5
Post‐place care: disrupting place‐care ontologies	5
Compulsory separation of women prisoners from their babies following childbirth: Uncertainty, loss and disenfranchised grief	5
‘Who cares if you're poz right now?’: Barebackers, HIV and COVID‐19	5
‘We're responsible for the diagnosis and for finding help’. The help‐seeking trajectories of families of children on the autism spectrum	5
Vaccine hesitancy and emerging parental norms: A qualitative study in Taiwan	5
Troubling content: Guiding discussion of death by suicide on social media	5
‘Black African’ identification and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Britain: A site for sociological, ethical and policy debate	5

The exchange and use of cultural and social capital among community health workers in the United States	5
Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity	5
Reordering the machinery of participation with young people	5
Off the record: The invisibility work of doctors in a patient‐accessible electronic health record information service	4
Constituting link working through choice and care: An ethnographic account of front‐line social prescribing	4
From community of practice to epistemic community – law, discipline and security in the battle for the legalisation of medical cannabis in Poland	4
Digital health: A sociomaterial approach	4
Disaggregating inequalities in the career outcomes of international medical graduates in the United States	4
Off‐label prescribing of stimulant medication to students: a qualitative study on the general practitioner perspective	4
At the limits of “capability”: The sexual and reproductive health of women migrant workers in Malaysia	4
Risk, trust and patients’ strategic choices of healthcare practitioners	4
Theorising health professionals’ prevention and management practices with children and young people experiencing self‐harm: a qualitative hospital‐based case study	4
From knowledge to a gendered event and trustful ties: HPV vaccine framings of eligible Finnish girls and school nurses	4
Understanding adolescent health risk behaviour and socioeconomic position: A grounded theory study of UK young adults	4
‘So just to go through the options…’: patient choice in the telephone delivery of the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services	4
Defining patient’s experiential knowledge: Who, what and how patients know. A narrative critical review	4
Integrating fundamental cause theory and Bourdieu to explain pathways between socioeconomic status and health: the case of health insurance denials for genetic testing	4
Risk work in dental practices: an ethnographic study of how risk is managed in NHS dental appointments	4
Overcoming adversity: a grounded theory of health management among middle‐aged and older gay men	4
‘They don't know themselves, so how can they tell us?’: parents navigating uncertainty at the frontiers of neonatal surgery	4
Interrogating the promise of technology in epilepsy care: systematic, hermeneutic review	4
Desire over damage: Epistemological shifts and anticolonial praxis from an indigenous‐led community health project	4
Psychosocial resilience among left‐behind adolescents in rural Thailand: A qualitative exploration	4
Researching the health and social inequalities experienced by European Roma populations: Complicity, oppression and resistance	4
Unpacking ‘patient‐centredness’: how knowledge is negotiated dialogically in the interweaving of genres and voices in counselling conversations	4
Struggling, helping and adapting: Crowdfunding motivations and outcomes during the early US COVID‐19 pandemic	4
‘I just don’t think it’s that natural’: adolescent mothers’ constructions of breastfeeding as deviant	4
Data protection, information governance and the potential erosion of ethnographic methods in health care?	4
Affect, dis/ability and the pandemic	4
Paradoxes of professional autonomy: a qualitative study of U.S. neonatologists from 1978‐2017	4
Gendered social practices in reproductive health: A qualitative study exploring lived experiences of unwed single mothers in China	4
Sociological contributions to race and health: Diversifying the ontological and methodological agenda	4
Disease surveillance infrastructure and the economisation of public health	4
Experiential knowledge in mental health services: Analysing the enactment of expertise in peer support	4
The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people	4
Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID	4
Biographical accounts of the impact of fatigue in young people with sickle cell disease	4
Valuing Black lives and the ‘Good Death’ in the United States	4