The 2010 special issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior, titled “Fifty Years of
Medical Sociology,” defined the contours of the medical sociological perspective. We use …

This article addresses 2 questions. First, to what extent are sex and gender incorporated into
research on genetics and health? Second, how might social science understandings of sex …

Objective We systematically review the literature on social epigenetics, examining how
empirical research to date has conceptualized and operationalized social determinants of …

Arguably, the most important problem at the intersection of sociology and epidemiology is
how to understand the pervasive positive relationship between various indicators of social …

Social and behavioral research in public health is often intimately tied to profound, but
frequently neglected, biological influences from underlying genetic, environmental, and …

We detail the implications of sociogenomics for social determinants research. We focus on
education and race because of how early twentieth-century scientific eugenic thinking …

This article describes both sociological and genetic theories of illness causation and derives
propositions expected under each and under a transdisciplinary theoretical frame. The …

Diversity in both biological attributes and the external, lived environment gives rise to
different susceptibilities, exposures, health outcomes, and longevity. Public policy can …

Calls have been issued for understanding the “contexts” or “environment” shaping the
causes and consequences of health and health care. Existing efforts raise concerns about …

Anthropological insights into the use of race/ethnicity to explore genetic contributions to
disparities in health were developed using in-depth qualitative interviews with editorial staff …