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The 'Informed Matter' of Gay and Bisexual Men's (Potential) Use of HIV Antiretrovirals to Prevent COVID-19. 男同性恋和双性恋男性（可能）使用艾滋病毒抗逆转录病毒药物预防COVID-19的“知情事项”。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70078

Daniel Storer, Dean Murphy, Niamh Stephenson, Garrett Prestage, Mohamed A Hammoud

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More Than a Question: A Conversation Analysis of Midwives' Approaches to Addressing Violence in Antenatal Care. 不仅仅是一个问题：助产士在产前护理中解决暴力的方法的对话分析。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70081

Marit Nygård Halvorsen, Mirjam Lukasse, Anne Marie Landmark

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Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post-COVID Syndrome in Brazil. 全球卫生中的争议性疾病和替代专业知识网络：巴西的后covid综合征。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70079

Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva, Amanda Curi, Larry Au, Cristian Capotescu, Gil Eyal

{"title":"Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post-COVID Syndrome in Brazil.","authors":"Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva, Amanda Curi, Larry Au, Cristian Capotescu, Gil Eyal","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70079","url":null,"abstract":"Contested illnesses such as long COVID or post-COVID syndrome create heightened uncertainty for patients as they navigate diagnosis and treatment. To lessen this uncertainty, patients in the United States and Europe have relied on patient activism and patient-led research to seek recognition from medical, scientific and political institutions. However, patients in other countries rely on different sets of strategies. Drawing on a survey (n = 144) and interviews (n = 32) of patients with post-COVID syndrome recruited via social media in Brazil, we found common experiences of psychologisation and dismissal of patient experiences. To combat this dismissal, some patients turned to each other online. However, patient groups showed a preference for advice from credentialled experts rather than asserting the embodied expertise of patients. Similarly, in the construction of alternative expertise networks, patients continued to rely on credentialled experts in the private healthcare system and from foreign and nonstate experts. We discuss how these alternative expertise networks may diminish the possibility of collective mobilisation and how those who are more socioeconomically disadvantaged and under-represented in our study will likely endure additional challenges.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":"47 7","pages":"e70079"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144967260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Coordinating the Medical Division of Labour: The Travails of Electronic Patient Records in the United Kingdom and United States. 协调医疗分工：英国和美国电子病历的艰辛。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70085

Clare Herrick

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Editorial: SHI Special Issue Promoting the Work of Racially Minoritised Sociologists Working on Medicine, Health and Illness. 社论：SHI特刊促进少数民族社会学家从事医学、健康和疾病工作。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70082

Brenda Hayanga, Tanisha Spratt, Patricia Kingori, Tarani Chandola, Gillian Bendelow

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Digital Primary Care Services, Procedural Justice and Intersectionality: A Critical Realist Approach. 数字初级保健服务，程序公正和交叉性：一个批判现实主义的方法。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70083

Gina Netto, Farjana Islam, Sara Bailey

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Shifting Expectations of Novel Immunotherapy Treatments in Oncology: Practitioners' and Patients' Calibration Work in Conditions of Uncertainty. 肿瘤学新免疫疗法的期望转变：不确定条件下从业者和患者的校准工作。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70076

Julia Swallow

{"title":"Shifting Expectations of Novel Immunotherapy Treatments in Oncology: Practitioners' and Patients' Calibration Work in Conditions of Uncertainty.","authors":"Julia Swallow","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.70076","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9566.70076","url":null,"abstract":"Immunotherapy cancer treatments stimulate individuals' immune systems to target and kill cancer, with the potential to extend survival time for individuals living with some forms of advanced cancer. Immunotherapies, however, generate uncertainties in relation to predicting prognosis and managing toxicities and the emergence of side effects during and post-treatment. Drawing on interviews with practitioners and patients in an oncology clinic in the United Kingdom, this paper examines how these uncertainties, defined as epistemic and temporal, are articulated and negotiated in a wider context of shifting treatment expectations. Extending theorisation in the sociology of 'low' expectations, this paper demonstrates how practitioners and patients oscillate between high and low expectations of treatment to negotiate uncertainty. Patients are not passive consumers of hope and hype and do not always articulate high expectations of a pregiven and distant future, which requires recalibration in conditions of uncertainty. Instead, both practitioners and patients craft modest and personalised expectations and visions of the future, which at times involve anchoring to the present. Foregrounding both practitioners' and patients' accounts in theorising (re)calibration is important for understanding how expectations unfold and relate to uncertainties and with what consequences for the making of contemporary patienthood in the present.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":"47 7","pages":"e70076"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12405668/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144967332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sociocultural Factors Shaping Fatherhood and Men's Participation in Antenatal Care in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review. 社会文化因素塑造父亲和男子参与产前保健在撒哈拉以南非洲农村：范围审查。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70084

Anthony Shuko Musiwa, Webster Mavhu, Owen Nyamwanza, Agatha Nyambi, Maya Stevens-Uninsky, Nadia Rehman, Naharin Sultana Anni, Roseline Dzekem Dine, Elizabeth Chadambuka, Rachel Couban, Lawrence Mbuagbaw

{"title":"Sociocultural Factors Shaping Fatherhood and Men's Participation in Antenatal Care in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Anthony Shuko Musiwa, Webster Mavhu, Owen Nyamwanza, Agatha Nyambi, Maya Stevens-Uninsky, Nadia Rehman, Naharin Sultana Anni, Roseline Dzekem Dine, Elizabeth Chadambuka, Rachel Couban, Lawrence Mbuagbaw","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.70084","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9566.70084","url":null,"abstract":"Men's participation is critical to improving antenatal care (ANC) utilisation and mother and child health in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Additionally, current reviews typically examine sociocultural determinants narrowly as barriers or facilitators of men's direct involvement in biomedical ANC activities. We aimed to consolidate existing literature on sociocultural factors shaping fatherhood and men's participation in ANC in rural SSA to inform tailored interventions. We conducted a scoping review, searching 10 online databases (African Index Medicus, Africa Journals Online, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycINFO, Sociology Collection, Social Sciences Abstract and Social Sciences Citation Index) for peer-reviewed articles that reported studies on fatherhood and men's participation in ANC in rural SSA, systematically analysed primary or secondary data, employed a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods design and were published between January 2000 and October 2024 in any language. We included 77 articles reporting 58 qualitative, 6 quantitative and 13 mixed-methods studies conducted in 15 SSA countries. We identified 12 themes demonstrating that local sociocultural conceptions, norms, dynamics and experiences intricately shape fatherhood and men's participation in many different forms of ANC in rural SSA. We recommend interventions that reflect local realities and research that employs Afrocentric approaches to centre marginalised perspectives in rural SSA.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":"47 7","pages":"e70084"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12442332/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145065380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Pandemic Communities of Fate and Care Penalties Among Community Outreach Workers in California's Central Valley. 加州中央谷地社区外展工作者的流行病社区命运和护理惩罚

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70080

Meredith Van Natta, Andrés Arias, Maria Andrea Escobar

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The Power of 'Publicness' Discourse: An Analysis of Counter-Hegemonic Formation Against Health System Privatisation. “公共性”话语的力量：对卫生系统私有化的反霸权形成分析。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70020

Jiwoo Ha, Chang-Yup Kim

{"title":"The Power of 'Publicness' Discourse: An Analysis of Counter-Hegemonic Formation Against Health System Privatisation.","authors":"Jiwoo Ha, Chang-Yup Kim","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.70020","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9566.70020","url":null,"abstract":"In the health sector, social movements have achieved notable success in certain counter-hegemonic struggles against neoliberalism. In South Korea, the 'publicness' discourse has been central to such movements. Through discourse analysis, this study examines two cases in which civic participation played a key role in successfully resisting privatisation. Our contribution includes a detailed contextualisation of for-profit hospital cases and a comprehensive analysis of antagonistic discourses, agents, and ideologies, grounded in the discourse theory developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Against neoliberal and developmental hegemony, a 'publicness' empty signifier articulated to public health institutions had hegemonic power, and the values of the health sector, including the right to health and health equity, served as a cross-sectoral unifying bond. Our findings present an account of a counter-hegemonic movement, which could contribute to power formation within and beyond a single sector and state. To conclude, we claim that although neoliberalism seems to dominate the health sector in South Korea and other national contexts, there are critical conjunctures which can challenge it and provide alternatives.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":"47 6","pages":"e70020"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12188106/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144485777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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