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SHI is an international journal publishing sociological articles on all aspects of health, illness, medicine & health care. THIS ACCOUNT IS NO LONGER ACTIVE

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After much deliberation, we will no longer be posting from this account. We are exploring a move to alternative platforms in the very near future. Please stay tuned. Many thanks. The SHI team.
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Attending to Gyn-Ecology: Managing the ‘Mess’ of Recurrent Vulvovaginal Thrush @sueziebland #vulvovaginalthrush doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Attending to Gyn‐Ecology: Managing the ‘Mess’ of Recurrent Vulvovaginal Thrush

Previous social science research on gendered experiences of thrush and vulvovaginal health has overlooked, or inadvertently sanitised, the materiality of having a body. Therefore, this study aims to...

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Transitions in and out of Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Latent Class Analysis of Older Adults in England #pandemicloneliness #covid19 #populationageing #socialhealth doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Transitions in and out of Loneliness During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Latent Class Analysis of Older...

Disease control measures during the COVID-19 pandemic may have intensified loneliness among older adults, though experiences varied based on individual vulnerabilities and resources. This study...

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Reverse Healthism and Antiscience Healthism: New Modes of Healthism in the Misinformation and COVID-19 Era #healthism #covid19 doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Reverse Healthism and Antiscience Healthism: New Modes of Healthism in the Misinformation and...

This commentary considers how Robert Crawford's concept of healthism may be applied to the current conditions of misinformation, populist and libertarian politics and declining interest by governme...

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Immunitary Life in COVID-19 Times: Understandings, Practices and Experiences Among Members of Marginalised Social Groups #covid19 #marginalisedsocialgroups @kerryndrysdale doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Immunitary Life in COVID‐19 Times: Understandings, Practices and Experiences Among Members of...

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the concepts of human immunity and immune responsiveness have received new attention. This article reports findings from a project that interviewed members of four...

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BOOK REVIEW Abortion Trail Activism: The Global Infrastructures for Abortion Access By D. Duffy, London: Bloomsbury, 2024 doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Abortion Trail Activism: The Global Infrastructures for Abortion Access. By D. Duffy, London:...

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Building and Boosting Capitals for Health Care Access: A Qualitative Study of Homeless Health Peer Advocacy in London, UK doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Building and Boosting Capitals for Health Care Access: A Qualitative Study of Homeless Health Peer...

Peer support is widely promoted as enabling health care access with people experiencing homelessness, including through enabling independence, empowering individuals and managing stigma. However,...

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‘A Completely Different Person’: Embodied Dialectics and Biographical Disruption After Stroke @SophieRowland93 #stroke doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

‘A Completely Different Person’: Embodied Dialectics and Biographical Disruption After Stroke

Stroke is a leading cause of complex disability, with many survivors experiencing mobility, cognitive and/or speech and language impairment. This paper explores the relationship between biographical...

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‘Hell No!’—Exploring Scepticism in UK Health Research Since COVID-19 Amongst Communities Who Have Been Labelled ‘Underserved’ #covid19 @davidwyatt83 doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

‘Hell No!’—Exploring Scepticism in UK Health Research Since COVID‐19 Amongst Communities Who Have...

Healthcare research globally has seen a renewed shift to increase diversity in research participation. People previously excluded from the production of biomedical knowledge, and often labelled...

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Misunderstood, Minimised, Misrepresented: Autistic Young Adults' Experiences of Epistemic Injustices in Healthcare Interactions Around Autism @AinoMariUisma #autism doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Misunderstood, Minimised, Misrepresented: Autistic Young Adults' Experiences of Epistemic Injusti...

This article explores autistic young adults' experiences of epistemic injustice in healthcare interactions where autism is invoked and a subject of misaligned sensemakings. We take a particular...

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Coordinating First Aid Provision: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Multiplicity of Categories at the Great North Run #firstaid #greatnorthrun #emergencycare doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Coordinating First Aid Provision: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Multiplicity of Categories at...

First aid is an under-investigated category of the emergency care system, with much research focusing on ambulance crews and emergency service departments. Historically, first aid research has been...

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BOOK REVIEW Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection. By J. Jayawickrama and J. Wright, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 #mentalhealth #bookreview doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection. By J. Jayawickrama and J. Wright,...

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Deus Ex Machina: An Ethnographic Exploration of Technology, Death and Decision-Making in Respiratory Care #endoflifecare #respiratorycare #Foucault doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Deus Ex Machina: An Ethnographic Exploration of Technology, Death and Decision‐Making in Respirat...

Noninvasive advanced respiratory support (NARS) is widely used in acute respiratory failure, including at the end of life, where its use is ethically and emotionally fraught. This ethnographic study...

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Neoliberal Governance and Agribusiness Influence: Public Health Policymaking and the Risk to Meatpacking Workers During COVID-19 #publichealth #policymaking #covid19 doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Neoliberal Governance and Agribusiness Influence: Public Health Policymaking and the Risk to...

In this article, we examine how neoliberal governance, corporate influence and public health policy intersected during the COVID-19 pandemic in one meatpacking town we call Cattleford. We focus on...

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The Moral Force of Guidelines: How Surgeons Use Evidence-Based Medicine to Curb Their Interventionism doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

The Moral Force of Guidelines: How Surgeons Use Evidence‐Based Medicine to Curb Their Interventio...

The epistemology of evidence-based medicine (EBM) is said to clash with the culture of surgery: EBM demands contemplation, whereas surgeons prize decisive, and even heroic, action. How, then, have...

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Exploring How Nuanced Agency Enables Citizenship of People Living With Dementia in Their Home Gardens @LynPhillipson #citizenship #agency #dementia #gardens doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Exploring How Nuanced Agency Enables Citizenship of People Living With Dementia in Their Home...

An expanded view of agency as nuanced and embodied can help us recognise the agency of people with dementia as citizens in everyday life. Places such as gardens, with their sensory and material...

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Postfeminist Healthism: Understanding the Gendering of Healthism Using Menstrual Tracking Apps as an Example #healthism #menstrualtrackingapps doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Postfeminist Healthism: Understanding the Gendering of Healthism Using Menstrual Tracking Apps as...

‘Postfeminist healthism’ offers an essential framework for understanding how healthism is gendered. In this article, we describe and advance the concept of postfeminist sensibility and its synergis...

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‘A Completely Different Person’: Embodied Dialectics and Biographical Disruption After Stroke #stroke #biographicaldisruption #informedcare @SophieRowland93 doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

‘A Completely Different Person’: Embodied Dialectics and Biographical Disruption After Stroke

Stroke is a leading cause of complex disability, with many survivors experiencing mobility, cognitive and/or speech and language impairment. This paper explores the relationship between biographical...

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Challenging Health Citizenship: Digital Health Engagement Among the Oldest Age Groups #digitalhealth doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Challenging Health Citizenship: Digital Health Engagement Among the Oldest Age Groups

This article investigates how older citizens perceive and utilise digital health technologies as part of their everyday health management, health-related risk monitoring and illness prevention. This...

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Providing Hope or Assigning Blame? Healthism in Print Media Portrayals of Dementia Risk and Responsibility @AlisonPilnick #dementia #healthism #stigma doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70…

Providing Hope or Assigning Blame? Healthism in Print Media Portrayals of Dementia Risk and...

Media representations often imply that dementia is preventable through lifestyle choices, potentially blaming individuals for their condition. Crawford's ideology of healthism outlines this form of...

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