The Journal of Biosocial Science regularly publishes papers addressing the social and
cultural aspects of disease, sickness and well-being. Most of these papers attempt to …

The last quarter of the 20th century has seen a shift in the social sciences, especially in
anthropology, from objectified descriptions of the body in health and illness to subjective, in …

In their reply to my commentary (Mason et al., 2017; Simandan, 2017) Mason et al. provide a
thoughtful and engaging discussion of my original points, and go beyond it, to offer a …

Growing consensus indicates that progress in tuberculosis control in the low-and middle-
income world will require not only investment in strengthening tuberculosis control …

We argue for a sociology of health, illness, and disease. Under the influence of Talcott
Parsons, the social study of health began as medical sociology and then morphed into …

'It happens then as it does to physicians in the treatment of Consumption, which in the
commencement is easy to cure and difficult to understand; but when it has neither been …

Social construction represents a major theme in sociology. Ever since Berger and Luckman
(1967) suggested that some of our most taken-for-granted assumptions about society are …

Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text,
popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the …

'Designed for students and professionals in the social sciences and health fields, this
handbook is easy to use when searching for specific ideas, theorists and topics and contains …

Approximately one in two hundred persons in the Marshall Islands have active tuberculosis
(TB). We examine the historical antecedents of this situation in order to assign ethical …