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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

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