Faith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness
in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where …

This book explores historical and philosophical connections between music, leisure, and
education. Specifically, it considers how music learning, teaching, and participation can be …

A mong the central themes of the eclectic field of mad studies is a cri LI tique of psychiatric
authority. Activists and academics, from a range of Jl-Impositions and perspectives, have …

This article provides an ethnographic account of pediatric cochlear implantation, revealing
an important shift in the definition of deafness from a sensory loss to a neurological …

In this article, we theorise and explain Exercise is Medicine (EiM), as indicative of broader
physical activity (PA) health promotion, from a sociological perspective through the lens of …

The concept of the sick role entered sociology in 1951 when Talcott Parsons creatively
separated the sick person out of the doctor–patient dyad. The idea became fundamental in …

The nursing community in the United States polarized in September 2020 between Dawn
Wooten's whistleblowing about forced hysterectomies at an immigration center in Georgia …

We live in the age of fitness. Hundreds of thousands of people run marathons and millions
go jogging in local parks, work out in gyms, cycle, swim, or practice yoga. The vast majority …

In the 1930s, erosion caused storms of dust to hurtle across the American Great Plains and
Midwest. While agricultural conservation methods helped remediate this landscape, recent …

Neoliberalism's travels across social and cultural theory and its perceived applicability in
heterogeneous sites and forms of critique have been central to its success and calls for its …