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The moral evaluation of Emergency Department patients: An ethnography of triage work in Romania. By M.Wamsiedel, London: Lexington Books. 2023. pp. 198. ISBN: 978‐1‐66691‐654‐6 (hbk); $95.000 (£73.00) (hbk); $45.00 (£35.00) (ebk). ISBN: 978-1-66691-655-3 (ebk) Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Bella Wheeler, Catherine Pope
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At risk: Indian sexual politics and the global AIDS crisis. By G.Vijayakumar, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2021. pp. 280. $28.00 (pbk). ISBN: 9781503628052 Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Upasana Goswami
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On vulnerability: A critical introduction. By P.Brown, Routledge. 2021. pp. 200. $49.95 (pbk); $170.00 (hbk); $44.95 (ebk). ISBN: 9780367366612 Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Katrine Callander
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What is public trust in the health system? Insight into health data use. By F.Gille, Bristol: Policy Press, Bristol University. 2023. pp. 166. £45 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐1‐4473‐6735‐2 Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Kazi Md Mukitul Islam
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Reframing the public/private debate on healthcare services: Tracking boundaries in the National Health Service Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Hannah Cowan
This paper intervenes in the dichotomous debate on the ‘privatisation’ of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Whilst research suggests that involving private‐sector actors and principles deviates from the founding aims of the NHS to deliver equitable healthcare for all, the opposing argument to ‘keep our NHS public’ also limits understanding and alternative possibilities. Through focusing on maintaining
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Choreographing a good death: Carers’ experiences and practices of enacting assisted dying Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Sophie Lewis, Camille La Brooy, Ian Kerridge, Alex Holmes, Ian Olver, Peter Hudson, Michael Dooley, Paul Komesaroff
The proliferation of assisted dying legislative reforms globally is a significant change in the social and medico‐legal landscape of end‐of‐life care. Understanding the impacts of these legislative reforms on family members who care for a dying person is vital, yet under‐theorised in research. In this article, drawing on semi‐structured interviews with 42 carers for a person who has sought assisted
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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). ISBN: 978‐1447369226 Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Lucinda Cash‐Gibson
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Issue Information Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-15
No abstract is available for this article.
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Relationship between payment problems and health: A nation-wide register study in Norway Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Nan Zou Bakkeli, Ida Drange
Previous studies have found a solid correlation between payment problems and health, and a large body of literature has recognised the impact of debt burden on ill health. However, few have looked at the reversed causality—the impact of health on over-indebtedness and payment problems. In this article, we investigate whether or not a person with mental and physical health challenges is more likely
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Aiming at the ‘proper’ body: How exoskeletons foster ‘risky’ bodies and conflicting knowledge regimes Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Denisa Butnaru
Exoskeletal devices are new technologies that have been developed in the medical field to provide assistance and rehabilitation for persons with motor impairments. Among these impairments, spinal cord injury and stroke are the most common. Drawing on materials collected during multi-sited ethnography conducted in France, Germany and Switzerland from 2014 to 2019, I suggest that exoskeletons contribute
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The ritualisation of the surgical safety checklist and its decoupling from patient safety goals Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Marcia Facey, Nancy Baxter, Melanie Hammond Mobilio, Carol-anne Moulton, Elise Paradis
Patient harm, patient safety and their governance have been ongoing concerns for policymakers, care providers and the public. In response to high rates of adverse events/medical errors, the World Health Organisation (WHO) advocated the use of surgical safety checklists (SSC) to improve safety in surgical care. Canadian health authorities subsequently made SSC use a mandatory organisational practice
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Explanations for sickness absence due to common mental disorders: A narrative study of young health and social care workers Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Noora Heinonen, Anu Katainen, Tea Lallukka, Hilla Nordquist, Anne Kouvonen
Over recent decades, sickness absence due to common mental disorders has increased among young workers. The phenomenon is mostly understood on the basis of epidemiological research, and knowledge regarding the viewpoints of young workers themselves is lacking. Our study explored the explanations for mental health-related sickness absence in the narrative accounts of young workers in high-risk health
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Issue Information Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-27
No abstract is available for this article.
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The importance of rhythms for maintaining consent in diagnostic encounters to detect cervical cancer Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Lynne Baxter, Catherine Wright
Diagnostic encounters can be seen as complex socio-material processes. Drawing on the new materialist ideas of Barad, we studied how an innovative technology became part of the intra-actions between different human and non-human materialities in a cervical cancer diagnostic process. While researching the development of a technology intended to improve cervical cancer detection, we carried out a series
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‘Staying in the lane’ of public health? Boundary-work in the roles of state health officials and experts in COVID-19 policymaking Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Katelyn Esmonde, Jeff Jones, Michaela Johns, Brian Hutler, Ruth Faden, Anne Barnhill
The state-level COVID-19 response in the United States necessitated collaboration between governor' offices, health departments and numerous other departments and outside experts. To gain insight into how health officials and experts contributed to advising on COVID-19 policies, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 individuals with a health specialisation who were involved in COVID-19 policymaking
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Ethico-racial positioning in campaigns for COVID-19 research and vaccination featuring public figures Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Andrew Smart, Ros Williams, Kate Weiner, Lijiaozi Cheng, Francesca Sobande
This article analyses a set of videos which featured public figures encouraging racially minoritised people in the UK to take the COVID-19 vaccine or get involved in related research. As racially targeted health communication has both potentially beneficial and problematic consequences, it is important to examine this uniquely high-profile case. Using a purposive sample of 10 videos, our thematic content
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The shame–blame complex of parents with cognitively disabled children in Italy Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Alice Scavarda
This article aims to advance knowledge related to the concept of the ‘shame–blame complex’ by analysing the accounts and experiences of parents with cognitively disabled children. It draws on 29 interviews with parents of children with Down syndrome and shadowing sessions with one family, carried out in Italy. Results show how the feeling of shame as a consequence of being associated with a disabled
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Data driven or data informed? How general practitioners use data to evaluate their own and colleagues’ clinical work in clusters Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Christoffer Bjerre Haase, Margaret Bearman, John Brandt Brodersen, Torsten Risor, Klaus Hoeyer
In contemporary policy discourses, data are presented as key assets for improving health-care quality: policymakers want health care to become ‘data driven’. In this article, we focus on a particular example of this ambition, namely a new Danish national quality development program for general practitioners (GPs) where doctors are placed in so-called ‘clusters’. In these clusters, GPs are obliged to
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The historical sociology of medicine in India: Introduction to the special section Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Roger Jeffery, David S. Jones, Kiran Kumbhar
This introduction to a special section brings together three papers first presented at a panel, ‘Medical Professions in South Asia: Historical and Contemporary Analyses’, at the 26th European Conference on South Asian Studies, held in Vienna, Austria and online, in July 2021. All three papers deal with aspects of the professionalisation of biomedical doctors in India since its independence in 1947
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For better or worse: Governing healthcare organisations in times of financial distress Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Tessa S. van Dijk, Martijn Felder, Richard T. J. M. Janssen, Wilma K. van der Scheer
Due to processes of financialisation, financial parties increasingly penetrate the healthcare domain and determine under which conditions care is delivered. Their influence becomes especially visible when healthcare organisations face financial distress. By zooming-in on two of such cases, we come to know more about the considerations, motives and actions of financial parties in healthcare. In this
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SATISFICING DEATH: Ageing and end-of-life preparation among transgender older Americans Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Nik M. Lampe
A good death—a normative ideology of living and dying well that may allow an individual to gain awareness, acceptance, and preparation for death—has captured the attention of researchers, clinicians, and policymakers in recent years. Prior sociological research has uncovered nuanced perspectives of a good death, yet there has been minimal exploration into how marginalised communities reconstruct their
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Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity. An intersectional approach Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Nick Drydakis
The study examines the socioeconomic determinants of physical health among populations experiencing food insecurity and receiving free meals in soup kitchens in the Prefecture of Attica, Greece. Data were collected from the same six soup kitchens in 2012, 2017 and 2021, resulting in a dataset of 1533 observations. The study revealed that periods characterised by an economic recession are associated
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Talking cervixes: How times materialise during the first stage of labour Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Siân M. Beynon-Jones, Clare Jackson
The clock occupies a prominent position in many feminist and midwifery critiques of the medicalisation of labour and birth. Concern has long focused on the production of standardised ‘progress’ during labour via the expectation that once in ‘established’ labour, birthing people’s cervixes should dilate at a particular rate, measurable in centimetres and clock time. In this article we draw on 37 audio-
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Tinkering with symptoms, causes and solutions: Tracing the enactments of multiple chronic illnesses in specialised outpatient check-ups Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Anna Louise Skovgaard, Marianne Johansson Jørgensen, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Mette Terp Høybye
People living with multiple chronic illnesses and an increasing need for acute care is a global health challenge, which questions the conventional ways of managing illness. A central issue is how medical practices can become more patient-centred and aligned with the everyday life of patients. Communicative strategies for eliciting the patient's goals and preferences are often proposed. In this article
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HUI: Beautiful scars Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Fran Kewene, Alexandra King, Teramira Schutz, Annemarie Jutel, Jessica Young
This article is the written account of a discussion between a group of indigenous women (trained both in Western and Indigenous knowledge systems), on the relevance of diagnosis in their conceptualisations of health and illness.
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Compelled loneliness and necessitated social isolation: “It’s like being on the other side of a mirror, just looking in” Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Natalie Wotherspoon
This article develops the conceptualisation of loneliness by drawing on 42 accounts of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). While illness experience is a central concern of the sociology of health and illness, experiences of loneliness alongside contested and chronic illness have received less attention. The analysis illustrates how loneliness can be an integral part of living with ME and offers two novel
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Epistemic injustice in experiences of young people with parents with mental health challenges Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Scott Yates, Brenda Gladstone, Kim Foster, Anneli Silvén Hagström, Andrea Reupert, Lotti O’Dea, Rose Cuff, Violette McGaw, Rochelle Hine
Amongst the impacts of growing up with a parent with mental health challenges is the experience of stigma-by-association, in which children and young people experience impacts of stigmatisation due to their parent’s devalued identity. This article seeks to expand our understanding of this issue through an abductive analysis of qualitative data collected through a codesign process with young people
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Value-based health care in translation: From global popularity to primary care for Dutch elderly patients Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Gijs Steinmann, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Antoinette de Bont, Diana Delnoij
In this article we examine the fragmented interpretation and implementation of a remarkably popular concept, value-based health care (VBHC). By building on a case study of a project team working on the development of value-based primary care services for elderly patients, we shed new light on the way in which VBHC transitions from theory to practice. The concept of ‘translation’ is used to theoretically
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How a ‘good parent’ decides on childhood vaccination. Demonstrating independence and deliberation during Dutch healthcare visits Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Robert Prettner, Hedwig te Molder, Bogdana Humă
Childhood vaccination consultations are considered an important phase in parents’ decision-making process. To date, only a few empirical studies conducted in the United States have investigated real-life consultations. To address this gap, we recorded Dutch vaccination conversations between healthcare providers and parents during routine health consultations for their newborns. The data were analysed
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Multimorbidity as chronic crisis: ‘Living on’ with multiple long-term health conditions in a socially disadvantaged London borough Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Esca van Blarikom, Nina Fudge, Deborah Swinglehurst
Contemporary health services are primarily designed around single diseases. People with multimorbidity (multiple long-term health conditions) often become burdened by accumulated treatments. Through multimodal fieldwork in a socially disadvantaged London borough, we explore how people living with multimorbidity navigate conditions of ‘chronic crisis’, encompassing ill-health, overmedicalisation, polypharmacy
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Issue Information Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-08
No abstract is available for this article.
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Doing and undoing transgender health care: The ordering of ‘gender dysphoria’ in clinical practice Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Wolter de Boer, Bert C. Molewijk, Marijke A. Bremmer, Baudewijntje P. C. Kreukels, Eileen M. Moyer, Karl Gerritse
A formal Gender Dysphoria classification— as outlined in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders— is a prerequisite for the reimbursement of both gender-affirming medical care and transgender mental health care in the Netherlands. Gender Dysphoria and its conceptual precursors have always been moving targets: moving due to research, policy, care practices and
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‘Planning for a healthy baby and a healthy pregnancy’: A critical analysis of Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of opioid dependence during pregnancy Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Fiona S. Martin, Meghan Gosse, Emma Whelan
As opioid fatalities rise in North America, the need to improve the supports available to those who are dependent on opioids and pregnant has become more urgent. This paper discusses the social organisation of drug treatment supports for those who are pregnant, using Canadian clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) as a case study. Pregnant patients are a priority
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The diffusion of diagnosis and its implications for the epistemology and ontology of disease Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Yishai Barth, Darin Weinberg
Rather than confining the categories health and sickness to a biomedical conception of the biological organism, there is growing recognition of epistemological and ontological multiplicity in the realm of diagnosis and, indeed, in the very realm of disease itself. In short, the empirical manifestations of health and illness as well as the processes thought to cause them are now understood to assume
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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 health Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Jeppe Oute, Susan McPherson
Between 2017 and 2020, the UN Special Rapporteur (SR) Dainius Puras published three reports that called for significant changes to organisation, funding and service provision in mental health care in ways that emphasise inclusive, rights-oriented, democratic and sustainable community health services. This article aims to examine formal organisational responses to the UN mental health reports and consider
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Addiction stigma and opioid use in chronic non-cancer pain management in Nigeria Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Ediomo-Ubong E. Nelson
This study uses 26 in-depth interviews conducted with people who use drugs (PWUD) who had sought care for chronic non-cancer pain in public health facilities in Nigeria, to explore how drug consumption stigma constitutes patient legitimacy based on neoliberal ideals. It found drug consumption stigma to be salient and pervasive in PWUD health-care encounters, operating through interpersonal interactions
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Decision-making as discovery: Vetting clinical research in a leading precision oncology service Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Alberto Cambrosio, Jonah Campbell, Alexander E. Drilon, Peter Keating, Jess B. Polk
Based on fieldwork carried out at the Early Drug Development Service of a world-leading cancer institution, our study sheds lights on decision-making processes at the stage where decisions are made about which clinical trial to pursue and thus which experimental drugs will feed the growing pipeline of molecularly guided therapies and therapeutic strategies available to treating physicians. The paper
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Journey for a cure: Illness narratives of obstetric fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Hannah M. Degge, Mary Laurenson, Emeka W. Dumbili, Heidi Saxby, Mark Hayter
Obstetric fistula is a life transforming event resulting in embodied biographical disruption. Survivors suffer myriad long-term physical and emotional consequences. This paper is an account of a narrative inquiry, conducted with 15 fistula survivors in North-central, Nigeria, who described how their identities had been transformed by their condition. A narrative therapeutic approach, using Frank’s
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‘When the visible body is no longer the seer’: The phenomenology of perception and the clinical gaze in video consultations Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Lucy Moore, Gemma Hughes, Joseph Wherton, Sara Shaw
Video technology enabled professionals and patients to conduct consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic when in-person health care was minimised to reduce the spread of the virus. We present findings of a study of video-consulting through in-depth qualitative remote interviews with 40 health professionals, managers, support staff and 10 patients in health-care services across the UK from 2020 to
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Detecting value(s): Digital biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and the valuation of new diagnostic technologies Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Alessia Costa, Richard Milne
This article explores how the meanings and values of diagnosis are being reconfigured at the interface between technological innovation and imaginaries of precision medicine. From genome sequencing to biological and digital ‘markers’ of disease, technological innovation occupies an increasingly central space in the way we imagine future health and illness. These imaginaries are usually centred on the
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Countering ‘the moral science of biopolitics’: Understanding hepatitis C treatment ‘non-compliance’ in the antiviral era Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 David Moore, Suzanne Fraser, Adrian Farrugia, Renae Fomiatti, Michael Edwards, Elizabeth Birbilis, Carla Treloar
Although new hepatitis C treatments are a vast improvement on older, interferon-based regimens, there are those who have not taken up treatment, as well as those who have begun but not completed treatment. In this article, we analyse 50 interviews conducted for an Australian research project on treatment uptake. We draw on Berlant’s (2007, Critical Inquiry, 33) work on ‘slow death’ to analyse so-called
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Health risks at work mean risks at home: Spatial aspects of COVID-19 among migrant workers in precarious jobs in England Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Sam Miles, Alicia Renedo, Charlotte Kühlbrandt, Catherine McGowan, Rachel Stuart, Pippa Grenfell, Cicely Marston
During COVID-19 lockdowns in England, ‘key workers’ including factory workers, carers and cleaners had to continue to travel to workplaces. Those in key worker jobs were often from more marginalised communities, including migrant workers in precarious employment. Recognising space as materially and socially produced, this qualitative study explores migrant workers’ experiences of navigating COVID-19
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Issue Information Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-09-19
No abstract is available for this article.
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Making assessment protocols workable: Navigating transparency and person-centredness in Norwegian reablement Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Maya Christiane Flensborg Jensen, Mia Vabø
Western welfare states are facing great challenges as they strive to optimise their health and social systems in response to the realities of an ageing population. Many countries put a stake on reablement services—short-term rehabilitative interventions aiming to help older people regain functional capacity. To ensure a person-centred approach and outcome measures, service providers are recommended
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Remaking critical care: Place, body work and the materialities of care in the COVID intensive care unit Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Catherine M. Montgomery, Annemarie B. Docherty, Sally Humphreys, Corrienne McCulloch, Natalie Pattison, Steve Sturdy
In this article, we take forward sociological ways of knowing care-in-practice, in particular work in critical care. To do so, we analyse the experiences of staff working in critical care during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. This moment of exception throws into sharp relief the ways in which work and place were reconfigured during conditions of pandemic surge, and shows how critical
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Race in clinical trials in Sweden: How regulatory and medical standards in clinical research trump the post-racial discourse Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Shai Mulinari, Anna Bredström
The post-racial discourse that permeates many Western European countries depicts society as having moved beyond race concepts and classifications. This article focuses on Sweden, a country that, in line with the post-racial thinking, declares race to be an offensive and unscientific concept. The article investigates what happens when this post-racial discourse meets clinical research standards that
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The incurable self: Negotiating social bonds and dis/connection with metastatic breast cancer Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Sophie Lewis, Giselle Newton, Katherine Kenny, Frances Boyle
As the culture of silence that once surrounded cancer has gradually given way to greater public awareness, normative visions of what cancer survivorship should entail have proliferated. These visions emphasise positivity and perseverance in pursuit of cure. While these visions provide comfort to many, for people with metastatic cancer, the emphasis on cure can undermine their sense of belonging to
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The social life of natural experiments in epidemiology and public health Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Clare Herrick, Kirsten Bell
Over the twentieth century, the concept of the natural experiment has become increasingly prominent across a variety of disciplines, albeit most consequentially in epidemiology and public health. Drawing on an analysis of the scientific and medical literature, we explore the social life of the natural experiment, tracing its changing use, meaning and uptake to better understand the work done by the
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Taking after a parent: Phenotypic resemblance and the professional familialisation of genomics Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Adam Hedgecoe, Kathleen Job, Angus Clarke
This article draws on 2 years’ worth of ethnographic observation of team meetings to explore decision-making in an NHS clinical genomics service. The focus of discussions was on ambiguous genomic results known as VUS or Variants of Uncertain Significance, which may be pathogenic but which also may turn out to be benign. In examining decision-making around such results, we note how, in contrast to much
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Men’s Health in Northern Ireland: Why do we need a men’s health policy? Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Erin Early, Paula Devine
Males accounted for half the United Kingdom population in 2021 yet they fail to be prioritised in health and social policies. As examining the health of males and females collectively falls short in accounting for the complexities associated with gendered health outcomes, male health should be considered as a separate policy issue. The island of Ireland has two jurisdictions, the Republic of Ireland
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‘Not in it for huge profits but because it’s right’: The contested moral economies of UK–India exports in health worker education and training Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Sibille Merz, Benjamin Hunter, Ramila Bisht, Susan Fairley Murray
While the growth of global markets in health-related services may have significant consequences for healthcare provisioning and training, it has received relatively little attention from the social sciences. This article examines UK–India, and specifically England–India, exports in health worker education and training as one such global market, drawing on sociological scholarship on moral economies
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How artificial intelligence is reshaping the autonomy and boundary work of radiologists. A qualitative study Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Linda Lombi, Eleonora Rossero
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical practice is spreading, especially in technologically dense fields such as radiology, which could consequently undergo profound transformations in the near future. This article aims to qualitatively explore the potential influence of AI technologies on the professional identity of radiologists. Drawing on 12 in-depth interviews with a subgroup
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Regulating diagnosis—Molecular and regulatory sub-stratifications of lung cancer treatment Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Amalie Martinus Hauge
The sociology of diagnosis has shown that diagnosis not only serves to label the underlying cause of disease but also to provide access to services and resources. Elaborating on this double-affordance of diagnosis, this article examines how precision medicine reconfigures diagnosis as a label and as a process in regulatory and clinical settings. Reporting from an ethnographic case study of the introduction
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Bricolage as an expression of self and of cultural and familial foodways among people living in prison—‘You make what you can with anything you can get’ Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Clair Woods-Brown, Kate Hunt, Helen Sweeting
In this article, we use Lévi-Strauss’s (1962, The savage mind, University of Chicago Press) concept of ‘bricolage’ to explore informal food preparation among men in Scottish prisons. The art of ‘making do with whatever is at hand’, in innovative and creative ways, to give new functions to everyday items has recently been reimagined and applied to the field of food. It has been used to explore the practice
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The intensification of parenting and generational fracturing of spontaneous physical activity from childhood play in the United Kingdom Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 John Day
Despite an increased drive over the past two decades in Western societies to promote children’s physically active play to improve their health, there are concerns that childhood has become less physically active. There are also fears that a previously naturally occurring aspect of childhood has become less authentically playful. Both trends highlight changes over time in the amount and type of play
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Competing realities, uncertain diagnoses of infectious disease: Mass self-testing for COVID-19 and liminal bio-citizenship Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Alan Petersen, Kiran Pienaar
Diagnoses of infectious diseases are being transformed as mass self-testing using rapid antigen tests (RATs) is increasingly integrated into public health. Widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic, RATs are claimed to have many advantages over ‘gold-standard’ polymerase chain reaction tests, especially their ease of use and production of quick results. Yet, while laboratory studies indicate the value
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Changes of heart: Debating the role of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India, 1948–1968 Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 David S. Jones, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
In 1950, the leaders of independent India celebrated the contributions that surgeons could make to modernising India. Surgeons, however, faced a difficult choice. Some wanted to invest in generalist surgeons to make basic surgical care available to all Indians. Others wanted to invest in specialists to ensure that India participated in cutting-edge surgical research and care. These debates shaped the
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The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two-generational, longitudinal approach Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Ingunn Marie Eriksen, Kari Stefansen, Tonje Fjogstad Langnes, Kristin Walseth
The topic of this article is the classed formation of health lifestyles in youth. Based on longitudinal interview data (41 youths, 17 of their parents) from two contrasting class contexts in Norway, we investigate how health lifestyles are reproduced across generations and during youth, focussing particularly on diet and physical activity. We find that young people’s health lifestyles are powerfully
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Issue Information Sociology of Health & Illness (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-07-20
No abstract is available for this article.