Sociology of Health & Illness

Read the most recent Virtual Special Issue on HIV/AIDS and the sociology of health and illness

Go "behind the scenes" of medical sociology and meet the people who wrote the classic books, papers and other publications that have shaped the field.

NEW! Watch the interview between Graham Scambler and Clive Seale

The podcast is split into two parts:
1. Understanding the inequality: Street protests and health care reform
2. What can sociologists do?

NEW! Watch the interview between Peter Conrad and Jonathan Gabe

The podcast is split into three parts:
1. Developing the medicalisation thesis
2. Stigma, the experience of illness and the internet
3. The sociology of genetics and US/UK links

Watch the interview between Mike Bury and Jonathan Gabe

Watch the Interview with Professor Renee Fox about the Reflections on the development of medical sociology

• Professor Renee Fox: Reflections on the development of medical sociology
• Professor Renee Fox: Current and future challenges for medical sociology

Visit the SHI website here

SHI authors on Laurie Taylor's Thinking Allowed
Alan Dolan was interviewed by Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4's "Thinking Allowed" about his SHI article "You can't ask for a Dubonnet and lemonade!": working class masculinity and men's health practices on Wednesday 9th February 2011. Please click here to listen to the podcast.

Patricia Drentea was interviewed by Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4's "Thinking Allowed" about her SHI article "Ethical capital: What's a poor man got to leave?" on Wednesday 2nd March 2011. Please click here to listen to the podcast.

The Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph series provides a sociological perspective on the theory of medical knowledge, the practice of medical work, and the experience of receiving or giving medical and health care. Published annually, they aim to identify and contribute to new areas of debate and research in the discipline and each book is devoted to an important topic of current interest.

Recent books from the series include:

• Technogenerians: Studying Health and Illness Through an Ageing, Science, and Technology Lens by Kelly Joyce & Meika Lowe
• Pharmaceuticals and Society: Critical Discourses and Debates by Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe & Peter Davis
  
  

For further information on the books series, please click here.

Review Articles provide a state-of-the-art overview of the literature on either an established or emerging area, and offer valuable summaries for both teaching and research purposes. They evaluate the progress of research in clarifying a sociological problem and recommend potential fruitful avenues for further empirical, methodological, and theoretical work.

NEW! Read Graham Scambler's article on Health inequalities and the accompanying responses from William C. Cockerham, David Coburn and Graham Scambler.

Current Review Articles include:

- The impact of management on medical professionalism: a review by Dino Numerato, Domenico Salvatore & Giovanni Fattore
- Health inequalities by Graham Scambler
- Politics, welfare regimes, and population health: controversies and evidence by Carles Muntaner, Carme Borrell, Edwin Ng, Haejoo Chung, Albert Espelt Maica Rodriguez-Sanz, Jon Benach & Patricia O'Campo
- Tissue donation to biobanks: a review of sociological studies by Wendy Lipworth, Rowena Forsyth & Ian Kerridge
- Understanding how men experience, express and cope with mental distress: where next? by Damien Ridge, Carol Emslie & Alan White