Abstract This essay conceptualizes the transformation of ethnography in the health field through a three-wave model and systematically maps the methodological and epistemological opportunities…

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This comprehensive review article, “Towards a Sociology of Healthcare Robots,” published in Sociology of Health & Illness in 2025 by Daniel Robins, Nik Brown,…

Published in the Annual Review of Public Health, this groundbreaking work offers a comprehensive exploration of network analysis as both a powerful methodological tool…

Are you aware of the silent obstacle hindering nutritional research? “Under-reporting of food intake is one of the fundamental obstacles preventing the collection of…

This article by Lisa Wallander, titled “25 years of factorial surveys in sociology: A review,” offers an easy-to-follow overview of how the factorial survey…

Health-related stigma, a concept deeply rooted in notions of shame and deviations from societal norms, has a long historical ancestry. From ancient times, the…

In an era defined by an unprecedented “data deluge”, researchers across sciences, social sciences, and humanities are generating vast volumes of data through new…

Mayer’s review serves two primary aims: to report on trends in life course research, focusing on empirical studies published since 2000, and to assess…

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This comprehensive review, “The Anthropology of Food and Eating” by Sidney W. Mintz and Christine M. Du Bois (2002), offers an insightful overview of…

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This paper, “Understanding and representing ‘place’ in health research: A relational approach”, critically examines the role of ‘place’ in shaping health and health inequalities,…

This insightful paper, “Beyond the knowledge deficit: recent research into lay and expert attitudes to food risks,” provides a crucial overview of psychological and…

The article “A General Theory of Scientific/Intellectual Movements (SIMs)” by Scott Frickel and Neil Gross (2005) presents a comprehensive framework for understanding the emergence,…

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Intersectionality is a fundamental theoretical framework that posits human experience is jointly shaped by multiple social positions such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and…

This article, “Health sociology from post-structuralism to the new materialisms,” authored by Nick J Fox and published in Health in 2016, provides a comprehensive…

This article, titled “Seven warrants for qualitative health sociology” by Stefan Timmermans, published in Social Science & Medicine in 2013, serves as a commentary…

This article, “The sociology of health in the United States: recent theoretical contributions,” authored by William C. Cockerham, offers an insightful examination of recent…

This article, “The Social Environment and Health: A Discussion of the Epidemiologic Literature,” authored by I. H. Yen and S. L. Syme from the…

This article, “A Systematic Review of School-Based Interventions to Prevent Bullying,” by Rachel C. Vreeman and Aaron E. Carroll, addresses the critical issue of…

This paper offers a critical assessment of Michael Bury’s influential concept of chronic illness as biographical disruption. Published in Sociology of Health & Illness,…

This paper, “Sociology of diagnosis: a preliminary review,” by Annemarie Jutel, argues for the establishment of a distinct sub-disciplinary field dedicated to the sociology…

Understanding the psychology of terrorism is a problem of atypical human behavior, and it is crucial for developing effective policies to manage the risk…

The article provides a critical appraisal of the introduction of ‘Z-codes’ in the United States, which explicitly codify social determinants of health, such as…

In “Scrutinizing Justice in Sociology: Inspiration From Social Psychology,” Karen A. Hegtvedt, a distinguished professor of sociology at Emory University and former coeditor of…

This paper, titled “Erasing inequality: Examining discrepancies between electronic health records and patient narratives to uncover perceived stigma and dismissal in clinical encounters,” investigates…

Are you seeking a definitive guide to the dynamic and evolving field of migrant worker studies? Look no further than this groundbreaking article, “Research…

The article addresses a critical challenge for the discipline of psychology in 2023: understanding and addressing human distress in a world increasingly shaped by…

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This article, authored by Liam Crosby and Oliver Bonnington, offers a crucial sociological perspective on the increasing use of smartphone applications for self-care related…

This article, titled “Digital health: A sociomaterial approach” by Benjamin Marent and Flis Henwood, published in Sociology of Health & Illness in 2023, addresses…

This article, “On care infrastructures and health practices: How people in health promotion programmes try to change their everyday life,” by Francesco Miele, a…

The paper addresses the significant challenges posed by the rapidly growing elderly population, which is projected to reach 2.1 billion by 2050, with nearly…

Introduction to the Article: “Contemporary Visualities of Ill Health: On the Social (Media) Construction of Disease Regimes” This article, titled “Contemporary visualities of ill…

This article, “Fertility apps, datafication and knowledge production in reproductive health” by Alina Geampana, published in Sociology of Health & Illness in 2024, offers…

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Unveiling the Temporal Dynamics of Digital Mental Health Peer Support Explore groundbreaking insights into how digital platforms are reshaping the experience of mental health…

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This detailed introduction provides an overview of the article “Ethical Issues when Using Digital Platforms to Perform Interviews in Qualitative Health Research” by Isaac…

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The article “Social Support, Socio-Economic Status, Health and Abuse among Older People in Seven European Countries” by Melchiorre et al. (2013) explores the intricate…

The article “Physical abuse by staff and co-residents of older people and people with intellectual disabilities” by Inger Kjellberg and Karin Berg (2024) addresses…

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This systematic review, published in Geriatric Nursing, comprehensively investigates the factors associated with financial exploitation (FE) in older adults. Financial exploitation is defined as…

This paper, published in Archives of Sexual Behavior in 2025, presents a qualitative study exploring pornography use among adults in Britain. While the use…

This article provides an introduction to the academic paper titled “The social stigma of loneliness: A sociological approach to understanding the experiences of older…

This article, titled “The Social Construction of Illness: Key Insights and Policy Implications,” was authored by Peter Conrad and Kristin K. Barker and published…

The article “Enduring Stigma: The Long-Term Effects of Incarceration on Health” by Jason Schnittker and Andrea John, published in the Journal of Health and…

This article, “The Importance of Different Forms of Social Capital for Health” by Sara Ferlander, published in Acta Sociologica in 2007, provides a comprehensive…

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This paper, titled “Health-related stigma” and authored by Graham Scambler, was published in Sociology of Health & Illness Vol. 31 No. 3 in 2009.…

This article, “Beyond Rational Choice: The Social Dynamics of How People Seek Help” by Bernice A. Pescosolido, published in the American Journal of Sociology…

Tsegaye Melaku and Lidia Assegid’s article, Prescription in Peril: The Sociology of Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance in Low-Resource Settings, presents a timely and critical…

The article titled “Medicalization and Social Control” by Peter Conrad, published in the Annual Review of Sociology (1992), is a comprehensive review of the…

The article titled “The Sociology of Prescribing: A Narrative Review and Agenda” by Anthony K. J. Smith (2025) offers a comprehensive sociological perspective on…

The article “Bringing Our Bodies and Ourselves Back In: Reflections on a Past, Present, and Future ‘Medical Sociology'” by Irving Kenneth Zola (1991) offers…

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The article titled “Sofalizing and its relationship with social media addiction and psychosocial factors: A new phenomenon among emerging adults” presents an empirical investigation…

The article “Challenges and opportunities in examining and addressing intersectional stigma and health” offers a powerful synthesis of emerging scholarship in health-related stigma. It…