How evolutionary psychology helps explain persistent problems in health management, from hand hygiene and vaccine hesitancy to burnout, across seven areas of intersection with…

A scoping review of 82 theories of behaviour and behaviour change from psychology, sociology, anthropology and economics for public health.

Frickel and Gross’s general theory of scientific and intellectual movements: how new ideas gain ground in science.

Health sociology from post-structuralism to the new materialisms: how theoretical approaches have shifted.

Recent structural theories in US health sociology: fundamental causes, social determinants and stratification.

Why diagnosis deserves its own sociology: naming diseases, illness versus disease, contested diagnoses and the engines of diagnosis (Jutel, 2009).

Scrutinising justice in sociology: how social psychology can inspire the sociological study of justice.

An introduction to Slavich’s Social Safety Theory: why social safety and threat shape health, the biological mechanisms and future directions.

The social construction of illness: key sociological insights and their implications for health policy.

The sociology of diagnosis: how diagnosis carries social authority and shapes illness experience.

A sociological perspective on antimicrobial resistance: social drivers of antibiotic misuse and policy implications.

Conrad’s 1992 review of medicalization and social control: conceptual, institutional and interactional levels, degrees of medicalization, demedicalization and critiques.

The sociology of prescribing: social influences on how doctors prescribe drugs.

Zola’s call to bring our bodies and ourselves back into medical sociology, and why embodiment matters.

of Irving Zola’s classic critique of medicalisation: how medicine became a major institution of social control, and why the argument still matters.

of Robert Straus’s 1957 classic: sociology in medicine vs sociology of medicine, and why the distinction still shapes medical sociology.

How grief became medicalised over the past century, and what this means for expertise and intervention today.