Patient-centred care (PCC) is typically framed as a moral imperative, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the past. Critical engagement with the concept is difficult,…

We are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize is Professor Alison Pilnick (pictured right) for her book, Reconsidering…

Watch below as Professor Judith Green announces this year’s Foundation for Sociology of Health and Illness Prize. Congratulations to Ruth Holliday, Meredith Jones and David Bell, authors of Beautyscapes: Mapping…

Which book has really set your MedSoc synapses alight in the last three years? Do you think it’s made a significant contribution to medical sociology? What about sociology of health…

Self-injury – or self-harm – is increasingly known about, named, and discussed. News stories frequently frame this in dramatic language, referring to an ‘epidemic’ or ‘startling rise’ in incidence, usually…