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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Chronic illness as biographical disruption.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1982	2,644
2	The methodology of Focus Groups: the importance of interaction between research participants.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1994	2,359
3	Loss of self: a fundamental form of suffering in the chronically ill.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1983	1,244
4	The rise of surveillance medicine.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1995	786
5	The genesis of chronic illness: narrative re-construction.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1984	672
6	The experience of infertility: a review of recent literature	Sociology of Health and Illness	2010	596
7	Illness narratives: fact or fiction?	Sociology of Health and Illness	2001	581
8	The sociology of chronic illness: a review of research and prospects	Sociology of Health and Illness	1991	579
9	Being epileptic: coming to terms with stigma.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1986	545
10	Illness and narrative	Sociology of Health and Illness	1997	491
11	Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept	Sociology of Health and Illness	2000	463
12	Embodied health movements: new approaches to social movements in health	Sociology of Health and Illness	2004	459
13	Health‐related stigma	Sociology of Health and Illness	2009	451
14	Sociology of diagnosis: a preliminary review	Sociology of Health and Illness	2009	424
15	Doctor in the house: the Internet as a source of lay health knowledge and the challenge to expertise	Sociology of Health and Illness	1999	398
16	Dynamic professional boundaries in the healthcare workforce	Sociology of Health and Illness	2005	386
17	Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox: the implications of coronary candidacy for health education.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1991	373
18	Care = organisation + physical labour + emotional labour.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1992	357
19	The development of a subjective health indicator.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1980	355
20	'Everybody just freezes. Everybody is just embarrassed': felt and enacted stigma among parents of children with high functioning autism	Sociology of Health and Illness	2002	352
21	Considering the Vignette Technique and its Application to a Study of Drug Injecting and HIV Risk and Safer Behaviour	Sociology of Health and Illness	1998	348
22	'Ignorance is bliss sometimes': constraints on the emergence of the 'informed patient' in the changing landscapes of health information	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	336
23	Empty ethics: the problem with informed consent	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	325
24	A theoretical proposal for the relationship between context and disease	Sociology of Health and Illness	2001	307
25	Belief, knowledge and expertise: the emergence of the lay expert in medical sociology	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	307
26	Why behavioural health promotion endures despite its failure to reduce health inequities	Sociology of Health and Illness	2014	306
27	Food and eating as social practice – understanding eating patterns as social phenomena and implications for public health	Sociology of Health and Illness	2009	285
28	‘Ordinary people only’: knowledge, representativeness, and the publics of public participation in healthcare	Sociology of Health and Illness	2008	276
29	The practice of medical technology	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	275
30	Theorising class, health and lifestyles: can Bourdieu help us?	Sociology of Health and Illness	1995	272
31	Health inequalities according to educational level in different welfare regimes: a comparison of 23 European countries	Sociology of Health and Illness	2008	269
32	The pharmaceuticalisation of society? A framework for analysis	Sociology of Health and Illness	2011	268
33	Doing the right thing: genetic risk and responsibility	Sociology of Health and Illness	1999	266
34	Renegotiating identity: cancer narratives.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1995	258
35	Accounts of health and illness: Dilemmas and representations.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1996	252
36	Finding dignity in dirty work: the constraints and rewards of low-wage home care labour	Sociology of Health and Illness	2005	252
37	Medical sociology, chronic illness and the body.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1996	251
38	Social capital and social support on the web: the case of an internet mother site	Sociology of Health and Illness	2005	251
39	'Breast is best': Infant feeding decisions and maternal deviance	Sociology of Health and Illness	1999	249
40	Sudden illness and biographical flow in narratives of stroke recovery	Sociology of Health and Illness	2004	245
41	From biographical disruption to biographical reinforcement: the case of HIV-positive men.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1995	243
42	Practices of reading and writing: the constitutive role of the patient record in medical work.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1996	243
43	Perceptions of stigma: the parents of autistic children.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1993	239
44	Health and media: an overview	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	238
45	Normal rubbish: deviant patients in casualty departments.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1979	227
46	Is There a Place for Geography in the Analysis of Health Inequality?	Sociology of Health and Illness	1998	223
47	Lay experiences of health and illness: past research and future agendas	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	223
48	Prostate cancer: embodied experience and perceptions of masculinity	Sociology of Health and Illness	2002	220
49	The significance and consequences of having painful and disabled joints in older age: co-existing accounts of normal and disrupted biographies	Sociology of Health and Illness	2002	209
50	Problems in the conceptual framework of patient satisfaction research: an empirical exploration.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1983	207
51	Theorising Inequalities in Health: The Place of Lay Knowledge	Sociology of Health and Illness	1998	207
52	Genetic, Cultural or Socio-economic Vulnerability? Explaining Ethnic Inequalities in Health	Sociology of Health and Illness	1998	205
53	Social movements in health: an introduction	Sociology of Health and Illness	2004	205
54	Illness in the Context of Older Age: The Case of Stroke	Sociology of Health and Illness	1998	203
55	Risk theory in epidemic times: sex, drugs and the social organisation of 'risk behaviour'	Sociology of Health and Illness	1997	201
56	The determinants of health: structure, context and agency	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	200
57	The impact of management on medical professionalism: a review	Sociology of Health and Illness	2012	199
58	The Nursing-Medical Boundary: a Negotiated Order?	Sociology of Health and Illness	1997	197
59	The illness experience: state of knowledge and perspectives for research	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	194
60	Beyond 'beer, fags, egg and chips'? Exploring lay understandings of social inequalities in health	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	193
61	Seeing health and illness worlds - using visual methodologies in a sociology of health and illness: a methodological review	Sociology of Health and Illness	2002	191
62	Diagnosis at a distance: the invisible work of patients and healthcare professionals in cardiac telemonitoring technology	Sociology of Health and Illness	2008	191
63	The interplay between doctors and nurses -- a negotiated order perspective.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1996	190
64	‘Trusting blindly can be the biggest risk of all’: organised resistance to childhood vaccination in the UK	Sociology of Health and Illness	2007	190
65	Conceptualising body work in health and social care	Sociology of Health and Illness	2011	188
66	The commodification of patient opinion: the digital patient experience economy in the age of big data	Sociology of Health and Illness	2014	187
67	Mortality, the Social Environment, Crime and Violence	Sociology of Health and Illness	1998	186
68	Epidemic psychology: a model.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1990	184
69	The mundane realities of the everyday lay use of the internet for health, and their consequences for media convergence	Sociology of Health and Illness	2005	182
70	Explaining non‐help‐seeking amongst young adults with mental distress: a dynamic interpretive model of illness behaviour	Sociology of Health and Illness	2007	182
71	A continuum of risk? The management of health, physical and emotional risks by female sex workers	Sociology of Health and Illness	2004	181
72	‘But obviously not for me’: robots, laboratories and the defiant identity of elder test users	Sociology of Health and Illness	2010	180
73	Contemporary Hospice Care: the Sequestration of the Unbounded Body and ‘Dirty Dying’	Sociology of Health and Illness	1998	177
74	Politics, welfare regimes, and population health: controversies and evidence	Sociology of Health and Illness	2011	177
75	Is anybody there? Critical realism, chronic illness and the disability debate	Sociology of Health and Illness	1999	176
76	Distributed decision making: the anatomy of decisions‐in‐action	Sociology of Health and Illness	2008	174
77	List of books reviewed.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1991	173
78	Changing faces: nurses as emotional jugglers	Sociology of Health and Illness	2001	173
79	Men’s discourses of help‐seeking in the context of depression	Sociology of Health and Illness	2012	173
80	Exploring stigma: medical knowledge and the stigmatisation of parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder	Sociology of Health and Illness	2009	172
81	Men, masculine identities, and health care utilisation	Sociology of Health and Illness	2008	171
82	Gender norms and social norms: differences, similarities and why they matter in prevention science	Sociology of Health and Illness	2020	170
83	Sentimental work in the technologized hospital	Sociology of Health and Illness	1982	168
84	Social selection: what does it contribute to social class differences in health?	Sociology of Health and Illness	1993	168
85	Pro-anorexia, weight-loss drugs and the internet: an 'anti-recovery' explanatory model of anorexia	Sociology of Health and Illness	2005	167
86	Framing the doctor-patient relationship in chronic illness: a comparative study of general practitioners' accounts	Sociology of Health and Illness	2004	163
87	Mortgage Debt, Insecure Home Ownership and Health: An Exploratory Analysis	Sociology of Health and Illness	1998	162
88	Chronic illness, expert patients and care transition	Sociology of Health and Illness	2007	161
89	Illness and narrative.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1997	160
90	The personal significance of home: habitus and the experience of receiving long‐term home care	Sociology of Health and Illness	2005	160
91	Demystifying disability: a review of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health	Sociology of Health and Illness	2004	159
92	Blurring the boundaries: breastfeeding and maternal subjectivity	Sociology of Health and Illness	2001	156
93	A grief ignored: narratives of pregnancy loss from a male perspective	Sociology of Health and Illness	2004	156
94	Unhealthy prisons: exploring structural determinants of prison health	Sociology of Health and Illness	2007	156
95	Social constructionism and the development of medical sociology.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1986	155
96	Agency and structure: the impact of ethnic identity and racism on the health of ethnic minority people	Sociology of Health and Illness	2002	155
97	When nurse knows best: some aspects of nurse/doctor interaction in a casualty department.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1988	153
98	Transcending the dualisms: towards a sociology of pain.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1995	152
99	Health consumer groups in the UK: a new social movement?	Sociology of Health and Illness	2004	152
100	Bodies, mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI	Sociology of Health and Illness	2008	152

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