In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the
American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work …

A critical review of recent literature on US social movements concerned with matters of
health and illness prompts reconsideration of the prevailing conception of such movements …

Social movements have often played an important role in emergencies, mobilising in
defence of those rights that they perceive as being at risk or more urgently needed than …

In the 1980s and 1990s, single-disease interest groups emerged as an influential force in
US politics. This article explores their effects on federal medical research priority-setting …

The contemporary tactics of millennial feminists who are part of an active movement for
social change In 2014, after a young man murdered six students at the University of …

Medical aid in dying (MAID) has been a productive target for social scientific inquiry at the
intersections of law and medicine over the past two decades. Insofar as MAID crystallizes …

Much of the change that social movements try to accomplish requires changing practices
inside organizations, yet reform implementation is difficult to achieve. This comparative case …

This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state
and the market–and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so …

Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece explores the rich
grassroots experience of social movements in Greece between 2008 and 2016. The harsh …

This Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine investigates the potential for positive inter-
disciplinary interaction, a 'generative dance', between organization studies (OS), and two of …