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Bargaining With 'Reproductive Capital': Multilayered Stratified Reproduction in the Case of Taiwanese Gay Men Seeking Transnational Surrogacy.

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70019

Jung Chen

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When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self-Improvement in the Manosphere.

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Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70015

Michael Halpin, Meghan Gosse, Katharine Yeo, Ingrid Handlovsky, Finlay Maguire

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Navigating Dementia: Political Materialities of Public Transport in the All-Ageing Metropolis.

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70017

James Rupert Fletcher

{"title":"Navigating Dementia: Political Materialities of Public Transport in the All-Ageing Metropolis.","authors":"James Rupert Fletcher","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.70017","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9566.70017","url":null,"abstract":"Age- and dementia-friendliness are major areas of contemporary urban policy and scholarship, seeking to maintain older people and those with cognitive impairment in their own homes and communities. Such work relies on architectural augmentation to maximise the functionality of ageing bodies and minds and has been criticised for conceptualising place as a static unidirectional determinant of individual disability. New materialist scholarship on place, ageing and disability is challenging such conceptions, theorising people and places as dynamically co-constituting socio-material ecologies that co-age and co-dis/enable. Moreover, a critical tradition is resituating dementia-friendliness in the materialising capacities of political economy in everyday public living with dementia. Building on that work, this paper reports on a yearlong creative go-along ethnography conducted with eight passengers with dementia on public transport in Greater Manchester, UK. Through interviewing, multimedia generation and map-making, their stories highlight unequal materialisations of (im)mobilities in relation to the fractious political economies of urban infrastructures in the all-ageing metropolis.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":"47 3","pages":"e70017"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11890419/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586797","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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Emotional Reflexivity and Lifelong Leisure Time Physical Activity: Managing 'Successful Womanhood' for Busy Middle-Class Women. 情感反思与终身闲暇体育活动：为忙碌的中产阶级女性打造 "成功女性"。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70004

Maria Hybholt, Fiona Spotswood

{"title":"Emotional Reflexivity and Lifelong Leisure Time Physical Activity: Managing 'Successful Womanhood' for Busy Middle-Class Women.","authors":"Maria Hybholt, Fiona Spotswood","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.70004","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9566.70004","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines leisure time physical activity (LTPA) for middle-class women as relational, intricately linked with societal understandings of personal responsibility to work, to family and to health and entangled with the emotion management of 'successful' middle-class womanhood. We focus on middle-class Danish women who engage in routinised participation in LTPA. We illuminate through our qualitative study how emotional reflexivity involves dispersed practices that are entangled with this lifelong physical activity and how these entangled, mutually evolving practices enable women to dutifully enact 'successful' womanhood, in line with contemporary ideals. First, emotional reflexivity during LTPA represents a habituated way to handle the routine pressures of everyday working and caring, enacted through practices of switching off and working through. Second, women are better able to manage their emotions during challenging everyday situations because of their routinised LTPA that both still emotions and enables engagement with them. Particularly, exercising in nature strengthens the women's capacity for emotion management. Emotional reflexivity practices become part of the LTPA practice template. Lifelong LTPA enables busy middle-class women to succeed at, and sustain, overwhelming and unrealistic caring and working practice performances that meet neoliberal ideals.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":"47 2","pages":"e70004"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11774260/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143053246","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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Antibiotic Economies: The Economisation of Antibiotic Use in Australia and Implications for the Mitigation of Antimicrobial Resistance. 抗生素经济：澳大利亚抗生素使用的经济化及其对减轻抗菌素耐药性的影响》。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70011

M Davis, A Schermuly, A Rajkhowa, K Thursky, N Warren, P Flowers

{"title":"Antibiotic Economies: The Economisation of Antibiotic Use in Australia and Implications for the Mitigation of Antimicrobial Resistance.","authors":"M Davis, A Schermuly, A Rajkhowa, K Thursky, N Warren, P Flowers","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.70011","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9566.70011","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how economic rationalities shape antibiotic usage with the aim of expanding options for the reduction of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Antibiotic usage is typically attributed to the individual behaviours of patients, pet owners and prescribers, an emphasis that has neglected sociological explanations, particularly the economic rationalities that are transforming healthcare. We used sociological theory of pharmaceutical capitalisation and economisation to explore in-depth interviews on antibiotic usage with scientists, policymakers, prescribers, patients and pet owners in Australia. Antibiotics attracted values in terms of cost to the patient and pet owner, profit for the clinic, how the drugs saved time away from work and childcare, and how they eased the pressures of self-care, parenting and pet ownership. Economic transactions that are only partially under individual patient and prescriber control shape antibiotic use. In these circumstances, antibiotic use is influenced by other social agents-for example, business managers and clinic owners-decentring prescriber authority. Adoption of socio-economic values of antibiotic usage and inclusion of its other economic agents is needed to improve AMR intervention effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":"47 2","pages":"e70011"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11791877/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190521","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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Muscling in and Making Space: 'Demonstrable Claims' and 'Jurisdictional Clipping' in the Reconfiguration of Professional Jurisdictions in the Surgical Care of Older People.

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70003

Justin J Waring, Graham P Martin

{"title":"Muscling in and Making Space: 'Demonstrable Claims' and 'Jurisdictional Clipping' in the Reconfiguration of Professional Jurisdictions in the Surgical Care of Older People.","authors":"Justin J Waring, Graham P Martin","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.70003","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9566.70003","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the micro-processes of jurisdictional change in the eco-systems of healthcare work. This qualitative study investigated the expansion of geriatrician involvement in the perioperative pathway for older people. This study shows how, in response to opposition from surgeons and anaesthetists, geriatricians developed linked strategies that involved claiming the medical needs of surgical patients, and simultaneously integrating geriatric expertise into the non-surgical peripheries of the pathway. By progressively demonstrating their ability to mitigate risks and improve surgical outcomes, geriatricians acquired an expanded role in the care pathway. This paper develops the concepts of 'demonstrable claims' and 'jurisdictional clipping' to explain the strategies of jurisdictional expansion. It also problematises these strategies by suggesting that role expansion was controlled and contained by more powerful incumbent groups, whereby the expansion of work was limited to temporal and spatial peripheries that were less valued by surgeons or anaesthetists.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":"47 2","pages":"e70003"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11826968/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143415232","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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Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity.

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Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70006

Venla Oikkonen, Elina Helosvuori, Ahalya Ganesh, Lilli Aini Rokkonen

{"title":"Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity.","authors":"Venla Oikkonen, Elina Helosvuori, Ahalya Ganesh, Lilli Aini Rokkonen","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.70006","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9566.70006","url":null,"abstract":"Multimorbidity, meaning multiple long-term conditions impacting a person's health, has become a rising societal and public health issue. The article contributes to the sociological study of chronic illness and multimorbidity by analysing how the blurriness of illnesses and entanglement of symptoms in multimorbidity is experienced and negotiated by people with coexisting chronic conditions. Drawing on qualitative interviews with people who live with endometriosis, fibromyalgia or hormonal migraine in Finland, we show how people with multiple chronic conditions distinguish between evolving symptoms based on past embodied experiences to make decisions about how to best manage their health. We argue that coexisting illnesses become entangled in ambiguous and open-ended ways, which, if left unaddressed, complicates treatment. Our analysis of illness experiences is aligned with the growing body of literature that argues that the single-disease model underlying healthcare systems fails to address the needs of patients living with multiple chronic conditions. Our emphasis on evolving entanglements between illnesses and the blurriness of conditions makes visible crucial discrepancies between lived illness and existing biomedical models and healthcare structures.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":"47 2","pages":"e70006"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143053248","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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Latino adolescents' experiences of residential risks on social media and mental health implications. 拉丁裔青少年在社交媒体上的居住风险体验及其对心理健康的影响。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-02 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13859

Celeste Campos-Castillo, Sarah M Groh, Linnea I Laestadius

{"title":"Latino adolescents' experiences of residential risks on social media and mental health implications.","authors":"Celeste Campos-Castillo, Sarah M Groh, Linnea I Laestadius","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.13859","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9566.13859","url":null,"abstract":"Despite alarms raised that adolescents' social media use can aggravate the harmful impact of residential risks (e.g. local violence) to their mental health, the mechanisms are poorly understood. To better understand potential mechanisms, we interviewed Latino adolescents living in a hypersegregated U.S. city, for whom social media may aggravate existing inequalities in residential risks to their mental health. Through an abductive analysis, we identified two processes suggesting how social media can amplify the deleterious impact of residential risks to their mental health. We refer to the first as additive, whereby social media heightens awareness of residential risks. The second is extension, whereby social media lengthens one's risk awareness, speeds up potential for risk awareness and multiplies who may become aware. We found evidence suggestive of parallel processes yielding diminution, whereby social media can minimise the deleterious effects of residential risks via adding and extending exposure to mental health resources, like collective efficacy. Further, the potential for extension (to both risks and resources) appears limited because social media practices (e.g. reposting, seeking viral attention) can foster indifference. Findings suggest the need to consider how adolescents activate resources via social media to avoid overstating its negative impact on mental health.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":" ","pages":"e13859"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11849767/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142564042","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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From Cells to Organoids: Sociological Considerations for the Bioengineering of Human Models. 从细胞到有机体：人体模型生物工程的社会学考虑。

IF 2.7 2区医学

Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13862

Sara Bea, Amy Hinterberger

{"title":"From Cells to Organoids: Sociological Considerations for the Bioengineering of Human Models.","authors":"Sara Bea, Amy Hinterberger","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.13862","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9566.13862","url":null,"abstract":"By examining the laboratory practices behind designing and crafting organoids-miniature, three-dimensional cellular structures that replicate organ functions-we highlight a critical shift in biomedical research. Over the past 16 years, advances in stem cell research have transitioned from generating stem cells to utilising these cells in building sophisticated organ models and bioengineered tissues. This transition represents a significant move from the 'what' of cell creation to the 'how' of constructing and interpreting three-dimensional human models. Through ethnographic research (including observations and interviews) in Europe and North America, we explore how organoids are constructed and the underlying logic driving their development. Our analysis underscores the growing importance of these in vitro models for human health, urging a sociological examination of their 'near human' status. We argue that understanding the implications of this shift-particularly how it influences perceptions of human representation and diversity in biomedical research-requires critical scrutiny from sociologists of health and illness. This paper aims to address the urgent need to investigate not just the experimental challenges but also the socio-political dimensions of using organoids as proxies for human physiology.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":" ","pages":"e13862"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142695905","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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Cancer Survivorship and the Significance of an Integrated Diachronic Life Course Perspective.

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Sociology of health & illness Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70012

Matthew Tieu

{"title":"Cancer Survivorship and the Significance of an Integrated Diachronic Life Course Perspective.","authors":"Matthew Tieu","doi":"10.1111/1467-9566.70012","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9566.70012","url":null,"abstract":"Standardised health care is primarily focused on remediation and delivered episodically through costly and fragmented health-care systems. Such an approach is untenable, given the diversity and complexity of peoples' health-care needs, increasing prevalence of chronic disease and existing heath inequities. A life course perspective fundamentally challenges our current understanding of health care and has great potential to promote innovation in health-care practice, systems and policy. However, the way that health develops and manifests across the life course is a highly complex process underpinned by a plethora of causal antecedents, consequences and interdependencies that have yet to be adequately captured and articulated in current life course frameworks. The field of cancer survivorship and its recent rise to prominence provides a highly relevant and compelling case example to inform development and refinement of existing life course frameworks. Cancer survivorship exemplifies what can be described as an integrated diachronic life course perspective, which serves as a conceptual framework to enhance our understanding of health development across the life course and guide health-care practice, systems and policy to meet the increasingly complex health-care needs of current and future generations.","PeriodicalId":21685,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of health & illness","volume":"47 2","pages":"e70012"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11791886/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143123543","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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