The increased accessibility of medicines across the globe has expanded choice in
therapeutic consumption. These changes give rise to increasing complexity and new …

The global Covid-19 pandemic is posing considerable challenges for governments
throughout the world and has and will have a significant influence on the shape of peoples …

This article presents an ethnographic study of regulatory decision-making regarding the cost-
effectiveness of expensive medicines at the National Institute for Health and Care …

Purpose Cross-cultural psychosis research has typically focused on a limited number of
outcomes (generally symptom-related). It is unknown if the purported superior outcomes for …

Risk has emerged as a key mechanism for controlling the future and learning from past
misfortunes. How did risk influence policy makers' responses to COVID-19? How will they be …

This article seeks to extend understandings of the ways in which trust is integral to analysing
'choice'within healthcare contexts, while also reappraising choice and its salience for …

Sociological research offers crucial understanding of the salience of trust for patients in
mediating a plurality of healthcare activities and settings. Whilst insights generated …

This paper interrogates qualitative data regarding the changing experiences of mental
health service and welfare state interventions for those who self-identify as experiencing …

The past 30 years have seen risk become a major field of study, most recently with the
COVID-19 pandemic positioning it at the centre of public awareness, yet there is limited …

Commentators suggest that there is an erosion of trust in the relations between different
actors in the health system in India. This paper presents the results of an exploratory study of …