Social Theory & Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Theory & Health is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Conceptualising care: critical perspectives on informal care and inequality9
Street-level bureaucrat's coping strategies in health policy implementation: a comparative case study from Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of Ghana9
Mindfulness meditation as “good medicine”: a new epistemological pluralism in health care8
Inequity in palliative care: class and active ageing when dying7
Patients’ knowledge and their trust in surgical doctors. A questionnaire-based study and a theoretical discussion from Norway6
UK public opinion on reasons to oppose healthcare privatisation: a failure of neoliberal persuasion and discursive politicisation6
Coronavirus, capitalism and a ‘thousand tiny dis/advantages’: a more-than-human analysis5
Aging in light of digitalization of healthcare5
An unproblematized truth: Foucault, biopolitics, and the making of a sociological canon4
In the absence of meaning: care practices and environmental factors behind the multiple selves of the digital psychiatry participant4
‘You’d think they’d know’: social epistemology and informal carers of mental health service users4
Revisiting rural healthcare access through Held’s ethics of care3
COVID-19 amongst western democracies: A welfare state analysis3
The psychosocial implications of social distancing for people with COPD: some exploratory issues facing a uniquely marginalised group during the COVID-19 pandemic2
(F)ailing mothers and the quest for redemption: a sociological study of postnatal depression recovery blogs2
“Different names for the same thing”? Novelty, expectations, and performative nominalism in personalized and precision medicine2
What is evidence as evidence is used? A case of dualism?2
Structural determination and social practice: towards a new understanding of ‘structure’ in health inequality research2
RETRACTED ARTICLE: The omnipresence of risk and associated harms in secure and forensic mental health services in England and Wales2
Negotiating body and power in forensic mental health care2
Contextualizing race and sex-related health disparities: doing difference and sexual risk behaviors2
Challenging the clinically-situated emotion-deficient version of empathy within medicine and medical education research1
Professionalization of Chinese medicine practice in Canada: from medical pluralism to neo-orientalism1
Disability and social trust: a comparison of people with a spinal cord injury and the general population in Norway, the Netherlands, and South-Africa1
Using socio-technical systems theory to study the health information management workforce in Australian acute hospitals1
Confiding in strangers: trust and mental health service use in China1
Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design & exploring the role(s) of capital1
Instituting Traditional Medicine: changes to identity and legitimacy in global health1
When health is wealth: occupationally differentiated patterns of health capital in post-industrial Europe1
Extending Durkheim’s sociology of suicide to healthcare decision-making: towards a sociology of choice as a social phenomenon of integration and regulation1
“Not a lifestyle disease”: the importance of boundary work for the construction of a collective illness identity among people with type 1 diabetes1
Frailty after Covid: tracing emergent shifts through heterogenous network mapping1
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