Sociology of Health and Illness

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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Chronic illness as biographical disruption.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1982	2,575
2	The methodology of Focus Groups: the importance of interaction between research participants.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1994	2,312
3	Loss of self: a fundamental form of suffering in the chronically ill.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1983	1,209
4	The rise of surveillance medicine.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1995	740
5	The genesis of chronic illness: narrative re-construction.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1984	636
6	The experience of infertility: a review of recent literature	Sociology of Health and Illness	2010	576
7	Illness narratives: fact or fiction?	Sociology of Health and Illness	2001	560
8	The sociology of chronic illness: a review of research and prospects	Sociology of Health and Illness	1991	544
9	Being epileptic: coming to terms with stigma.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1986	532
10	Illness and narrative	Sociology of Health and Illness	1997	505
11	Health‐related stigma	Sociology of Health and Illness	2009	458
12	Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept	Sociology of Health and Illness	2000	444
13	Embodied health movements: new approaches to social movements in health	Sociology of Health and Illness	2004	439
14	Sociology of diagnosis: a preliminary review	Sociology of Health and Illness	2009	437
15	Dynamic professional boundaries in the healthcare workforce	Sociology of Health and Illness	2005	365
16	Doctor in the house: the Internet as a source of lay health knowledge and the challenge to expertise	Sociology of Health and Illness	1999	351
17	'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	351
18	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	335
19	Care = organisation + physical labour + emotional labour.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1992	334
20	Why behavioural health promotion endures despite its failure to reduce health inequities	Sociology of Health and Illness	2014	330
21	'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	318
22	Empty ethics: the problem with informed consent	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	310
23	A theoretical proposal for the relationship between context and disease	Sociology of Health and Illness	2001	302
24	Belief, knowledge and expertise: the emergence of the lay expert in medical sociology	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	298
25	The practice of medical technology	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	281
26	Food and eating as social practice – understanding eating patterns as social phenomena and implications for public health	Sociology of Health and Illness	2009	281
27	Health inequalities according to educational level in different welfare regimes: a comparison of 23 European countries	Sociology of Health and Illness	2008	268
28	‘Ordinary people only’: knowledge, representativeness, and the publics of public participation in healthcare	Sociology of Health and Illness	2008	265
29	The pharmaceuticalisation of society? A framework for analysis	Sociology of Health and Illness	2011	262
30	Theorising class, health and lifestyles: can Bourdieu help us?	Sociology of Health and Illness	1995	260
31	Renegotiating identity: cancer narratives.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1995	253
32	Doing the right thing: genetic risk and responsibility	Sociology of Health and Illness	1999	249
33	Finding dignity in dirty work: the constraints and rewards of low-wage home care labour	Sociology of Health and Illness	2005	242
34	Perceptions of stigma: the parents of autistic children.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1993	237
35	Social capital and social support on the web: the case of an internet mother site	Sociology of Health and Illness	2005	236
36	Medical sociology, chronic illness and the body.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1996	234
37	'Breast is best': Infant feeding decisions and maternal deviance	Sociology of Health and Illness	1999	234
38	Practices of reading and writing: the constitutive role of the patient record in medical work.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1996	232
39	Gender norms and social norms: differences, similarities and why they matter in prevention science	Sociology of Health and Illness	2020	232
40	Accounts of health and illness: Dilemmas and representations.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1996	230
41	Sudden illness and biographical flow in narratives of stroke recovery	Sociology of Health and Illness	2004	229
42	Health and media: an overview	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	224
44	From biographical disruption to biographical reinforcement: the case of HIV-positive men.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1995	218
45	Lay experiences of health and illness: past research and future agendas	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	215
46	Normal rubbish: deviant patients in casualty departments.	Sociology of Health and Illness	1979	214
47	Prostate cancer: embodied experience and perceptions of masculinity	Sociology of Health and Illness	2002	213
48	Social movements in health: an introduction	Sociology of Health and Illness	2004	208
50	The determinants of health: structure, context and agency	Sociology of Health and Illness	2003	202

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