There is a large and growing body of evidence on the health benefits of engagement in
leisure activities (voluntary, enjoyable non-work activities, such as hobbies, arts …

The social construction of illness is a major research perspective in medical sociology. This
article traces the roots of this perspective and presents three overarching constructionist …

Background Approximately 10% of patients with Covid-19 experience symptoms beyond 3–
4 weeks. Patients call this “long Covid”. We sought to document such patients' lived …

Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American
Sociological Association Winner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice …

Responding to the growing gap between the sociological ethos and the world we study, the
challenge of public sociology is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways. These public …

When seeking information not covered in patient-friendly documents, healthcare consumers
may turn to the research literature. Reading medical papers, however, can be a challenging …

Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods
of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from …

Outlines how the social dimensions of medical diagnosis can deepen our understanding of
health. Diagnosis is central to medicine. It creates order, explains illness, identifies …

There is little evidence that the prevailing strategies of science education have an impact on
the use and interpretation of science in daily life. Most science educators and science …

This article proposes the notion of 'evidence-based activism'to capture patients' and health
activists' groups' focus on knowledge production and knowledge mobilisation in the …