Sociology of Health & Illness is an international English language journal which publishes sociological articles on all aspects of health, illness, medicine and healthcare. Addiction is a widespread ...

In the world of medicine, treating the body and treating the person can be two distinctly different things. The medical sociology program in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of ...

The Nepali doctor Rishav Koirala is, by his own admission, an unusual Nepali. He’s a fan of Jim Morrison and the Doors, loves European philosophy and practices psychiatry in a country where medical ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Jesse Tse does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this ...

Mental health and mental illness are on a continuum but are also different. Source: Anna Tarazevich/Pexels Who is mentally ill? Who is not? Why draw a distinction? In recent decades, there has been a ...

If you’ve been around a young child for any amount of time, you know that “why?” is a favorite question. “Why is the sky blue?” “Why do leaves fall off trees?” “Why do I have to go to sleep at night?” ...

The UK public broadly supports efforts to reduce the environmental impact of health care, but some fear that environmental arguments could be used to justify cost-cutting or service reductions, shows ...

The field of Sociology of Health examines the ways in which social structures, interactions, and cultural contexts shape health outcomes and the distribution of disease across populations. It ...