Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph Series

Edited by Professor Ian Rees Jones

Cardiff School of Social Sciences

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Current titles

The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality

edited by Davina Allen, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Jane Sandall and Justin Waring

Children, Health and Well-being: Policy Debates and Lived Experience

edited by Geraldine Brady, Pam Lowe and Sonja Olin Lauritzen

From Health Behaviours to Health Practices: Critical Perspectives

edited by Simon Cohn

Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Sociological Agenda

edited by Robert Dingwall, Lily M Hoffman and Karen Staniland

The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions (2012)

edited by Natalie Armstrong and Helen Eborall

Body Work in Health and Social Care: Critical Themes, New Agendas (2011)

edited by Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen and Sarah Nettleton

Technogenarians: Studying Health and Illness Through an Ageing, Science, and Technology Lens (2010)

edited by Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe

Communication in Healthcare Settings: Policy, Participation and New Technologies (2009)

edited by Alison Pilnick, Jon Hindmarsh and Virginia Teas Gill

Pharmaceuticals and Society: Critical Discourses and Debates (2009)

edited by Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe and Peter Davis

Ethnicity, Health and Health Care: Understanding Diversity, Tackling Disadvantage (2008)

edited by Waqar I. U. Ahmad and Hannah Bradby

The View From Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences (2007)

edited by Raymond de Vries, Leigh Turner, Kristina Orfali and Charles Bosk

The Social Organisation of Healthcare Work (2006)

edited by Davina Allen and Alison Pilnick

Social Movements in Health (2005)

edited by Phil Brown and Stephen Zavestoski

Health and the Media (2004)

edited by Clive Seale

Partners in Health, Partners in Crime: Exploring the boundaries of criminology and sociology of health and illness (2003)

edited by Stefan Timmermans and Jonathan Gabe

Rationing: Constructed Realities and Professional Practices (2002)

edited by David Hughes and Donald Light

Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health (2000)

edited by Joan Busfeld

Sociological Perspectives on the New Genetics (1999)

edited by Peter Conrad and Jonathan Gabe

The Sociology of Health Inequalities (1998)

edited by Mel Bartley, David Blane and George Davey Smith

The Sociology of Medical Science (1997)

edited by Mary Ann Elston

Health and the Sociology of Emotion (1996)

edited by Veronica James and Jonathan Gabe

Medicine, Health and Risk (1995)

edited by Jonathan Gabe

This edition first published 2016
Originally published as Volume 38, Issue 2 of The Sociology of Health & Illness
Chapters © 2016 The Authors.
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Davina Allen School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

Emma-Louise Aveling Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, UK; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Jeffrey Braithwaite Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia

Patrick R. Brown Department of Sociology and Centre for Social Science and Global Health, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Michael W. Calnan School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent

Stephen Campbell NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (GM PSTRC), NIHR School for Primary Care Research, University of Manchester & Research and Action in Public Health (CeRAPH), University of Canberra

Gavin Daker-White NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (GM PSTRC), University of Manchester

Huw Davies School of Management, University of St. Andrews, UK

Mary Dixon-Woods Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, UK

Tim Freeman Leadership, Work and Organisation, Middlesex University, UK

Suzanne Grant Division of Population Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland

Bruce Guthrie Division of Population Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland

Nicola Mackintosh Division of Women's Health, King's College London, London, UK

Russell Mannion Health Services Management Centre, Birmingham, UK

Ruth McDonald Manchester Business School and NIHR School for Primary Care Research, University of Manchester

Jessica Mesman Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Technology and Society Studies, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Ross Millar Health Services Management Centre, Birmingham, UK

Michael Parker Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, UK

Penny Rhodes NIHR School for Primary Care Research, University of Manchester

Jane Sandall Division of Women's Health, King's College London, London, UK; Women's Health Academic Centre, King's College London, UK

Caroline Sanders NIHR School for Primary Care Research & Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC), University of Manchester

Julia E. Szymczak Division of Infectious Diseases and The Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

Justin Waring Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, UK