The social construction of genetic risk Richard Holden MPs’ unsuccessful Private Members Bill to ban cousin marriage provoked a debate in the UK Parliament and in the media in 2024/5….

There has been a “fluttering in the dovecotes” of academia in New Zealand. The Marsden panels for Humanities and the Social Sciences have been disbanded, and the remaining panels need…

We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize are Professor Kate Reed, Julie Ellis and Elspeth Whitby for…

People in police custody say they are being denied medication for their health problems by police and nurses, new research says. Dr Stephanie Mulrine interviewed 42 people with physical or…

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…

Our recent report on stark ethnic inequalities in the NHS, published by the NHS Race and Health Observatory will make for uncomfortable reading for NHS managers, commissioners and government departments…

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…