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Caring infrastructures for sexual health and the implications of antibiotic-resistant STIs. 性健康护理基础设施和耐抗生素性传播感染的影响。

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Health Sociology Review Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-14 DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2026.2700183

Shiva Chandra, Alex Broom, Michelle Peterie, Damien Ridge, Bridget Haire, Catriona Bradshaw, Jennifer Broom, Katherine Kenny, Carla Treloar, Lise Lafferty, Rebecca Guy, Tanya Applegate

{"title":"Caring infrastructures for sexual health and the implications of antibiotic-resistant STIs.","authors":"Shiva Chandra, Alex Broom, Michelle Peterie, Damien Ridge, Bridget Haire, Catriona Bradshaw, Jennifer Broom, Katherine Kenny, Carla Treloar, Lise Lafferty, Rebecca Guy, Tanya Applegate","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2700183","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2700183","url":null,"abstract":"Infrastructures fundamentally shape sexual health, but their gaps and failings often only come into view during moments of crisis. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a looming microbiological and global societal crisis, and one that is posing increasing challenges and risks for medical practice and public health alike. In sexual health, concerns have been raised about growing resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and the less well-known Mycoplasma genitalium. In this article, we examine contemporary sexual health infrastructures and their adequacy in the context of rising antibiotic-resistant STIs. To do this, we draw on 49 semi-structured interviews with cisgender gay and bisexual men, and trans and gender diverse people (GBTQ+) in Australia. Findings reveal that growing costs, a lack of access to sexual healthcare services, complexities in navigating these services and lengthy wait times all present challenges to optimal care, and that growing resistance may further strain these socio-material-temporal arrangements. We argue that greater investment in sexual health infrastructures will increase capacity to accommodate complex lives, multiple subjectivities and ensure easier access to services. In the context of resistance, this frames sexual health infrastructures beyond ideas of simply 'coping with crisis' to being able to care well for people within a shifting environment.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"281-297"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438233","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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Relational care as emotional resistance: medicalisation, childbirth, and breastfeeding practices. 关系护理作为情感抵抗：医疗化、分娩和母乳喂养实践。

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Health Sociology Review Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-10-04 DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2026.2738544

Andrew F Baird, Federica Bono

{"title":"Relational care as emotional resistance: medicalisation, childbirth, and breastfeeding practices.","authors":"Andrew F Baird, Federica Bono","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2738544","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2738544","url":null,"abstract":"Health sociologists conceptualise the medicalisation of birth and breastfeeding within broader socio-cultural frameworks of fear and antagonism toward the female body. While birth emotions shape breastfeeding initiation, their longer-term implications and the role of emotional support during childbirth remain less clear. We use survey data from the Hampton Roads Infant Feeding Study (N = 1,360), collected among mothers who gave birth between 2020 and 2024, to estimate a generalised structural equation model linking medical interventions, relational care, emotional responses, and exclusive breastfeeding at six months. Building on Hochschild's theory of emotion work and recent literature on emotional geography and emotional resistance, we show that medicalised birth is associated with breastfeeding partly through negative emotional pathways, while doula and midwife support are associated with positive emotional experiences and higher odds of exclusive breastfeeding. We argue that relational care can function as emotional resistance by supporting embodied confidence and mother-infant connection across birth and infant feeding. Relational care during childbirth may therefore extend beyond the birthing space, not only shaping the emotional conditions for breastfeeding, but potentially also transforming more general normative constructions of womanhood.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"331-348"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149116593","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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Fostering a culture of inclusive LGBTQIA+ research practice: reflections on a community of practice in higher education. 培养包容性的LGBTQIA+研究实践文化：对高等教育实践社区的思考。

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Health Sociology Review Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2026.2719679

Anthony K J Smith, Brooke Brady, Andy Kaladelfos, Bridget Haire, Adam Hughes, Christy E Newman, Kerryn Drysdale

{"title":"Fostering a culture of inclusive LGBTQIA+ research practice: reflections on a community of practice in higher education.","authors":"Anthony K J Smith, Brooke Brady, Andy Kaladelfos, Bridget Haire, Adam Hughes, Christy E Newman, Kerryn Drysdale","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2719679","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2719679","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous guidelines aim to support inclusive approaches to conducting research with LGBTQIA+ people. Implementing these in practice, however, requires deliberate consideration of the situated social and cultural contexts that shape research (co-)design, participant recruitment, data collection and analysis. This commentary considers the imperative to foster a culture of inclusive research and practice with LGBTQIA+ populations through a higher education initiative to develop more equitable, transdisciplinary research: the UNSW Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer and Trans people and people with Innate variations of sex characteristics, or 'CoPQTI'. This community of practice provides a robust model for creating a safe and supportive professional environment to enact high-quality, ethical, and accurate research within higher education contexts. In some international jurisdictions, anti-LGBTQIA+ policies are increasing or emerging that threaten to undermine the possibility for rigorous LGBTQIA+ research, which directly impacts the health and wellbeing of these communities and how they are discursively constructed in research practices. Proactive collaborations that seek to embed inclusivity as a normative research practice are needed more than ever.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"245-258"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148889165","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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Choice versus safety: a qualitative exploration of the complexities of respectful maternity care in Singapore. 选择与安全：对新加坡尊重产妇护理复杂性的定性探索。

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Health Sociology Review Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-14 DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2026.2700192

Jamie Qiao Xin Ng, Jenny Munro, Sarah Su Tin Ho-Lim, Ting Shian Chiang, Mahesh Choolani, Shefaly Shorey

{"title":"Choice versus safety: a qualitative exploration of the complexities of respectful maternity care in Singapore.","authors":"Jamie Qiao Xin Ng, Jenny Munro, Sarah Su Tin Ho-Lim, Ting Shian Chiang, Mahesh Choolani, Shefaly Shorey","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2700192","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2700192","url":null,"abstract":"Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) emphasises dignity, autonomy, and compassion as universal rights, yet its practical enactment within highly medicalised, standardised, and multicultural systems remains complex. This study aimed to explore how RMC is enacted by women and obstetricians, nurses, and midwives in hospital-based maternity care in Singapore. A qualitative exploratory study involving in-depth semi-structured interviews with mothers and healthcare providers was conducted. Mothers with maternity experience within the last 48 months were included regardless of parity (number of previous pregnancies). Healthcare providers were included if they had worked within the maternity setting within the last 4 years. Braun and Clarke's reflexive thematic analysis approach was used to develop themes and subthemes. We found that concepts of RMC, particularly autonomy, were interpreted differently by mothers and providers. Though nurse-midwives were intermediaries for respectful care, providers were operating within the constraints of protocol-driven efficiency within a technocratic society with norms of deference to authority. Mothers demonstrated situated agency by drawing on informal networks and using payment tiers to secure more relational care. However, this market-based differentiation risks commodifying dignity and deepening inequities in RMC based on the ability to pay. Systems need to integrate relational autonomy and informed choice to improve respectful maternity care practices.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"259-280"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438216","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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The cost of safety during China's COVID-19 management: state of exception and political auto-immunity. 中国新冠疫情防控中的安全成本：例外状态与政治自身免疫。

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Health Sociology Review Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-08-26 DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2026.2718149

Xu Liu

{"title":"The cost of safety during China's COVID-19 management: state of exception and political auto-immunity.","authors":"Xu Liu","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2718149","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2718149","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines China's zero-COVID strategy through a Foucauldian lens, analysing how the pandemic was transformed from a biological event into a political crisis that legitimised the 'state of exception'. Situated within China's hybrid context of 'fragmented authoritarianism' and neoliberal transition, I argue that the state mobilised a specific 'regime of truth' to monopolise the definition of life. By deploying what Esposito terms the immunisation, the government's approach of 'Life Above All' (shengming zhishang) paradoxically protected biological existence by negating the biopolitical attributes of the population, reducing citizens to 'bare life'. Drawing on online ethnography from the early Wuhan outbreak to the Shanghai lockdown, I analyse how residents and medical professionals navigated China's pandemic governance through forms of Foucauldian counter-conduct. Rather than standing outside the governing regime, these practices contested how truth, risk, and obligation were defined and imposed under the zero-COVID policy. The paper therefore shows how pandemic governance became a site of ongoing negotiation over lived experience, social relations, and the terms on which life could be governed.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"298-313"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148833543","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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The nexus between accessible health communication and information resilience in diverse societies: the case of migrants and people with disability. 不同社会中可获得的卫生通信与信息复原力之间的联系：以移徙者和残疾人为例。

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Health Sociology Review Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-08-26 DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2026.2718151

Ashleigh Haw

{"title":"The nexus between accessible health communication and information resilience in diverse societies: the case of migrants and people with disability.","authors":"Ashleigh Haw","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2718151","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2718151","url":null,"abstract":"Trustworthy communication is crucial for building safe and informed societies, but for marginalised communities, disparate access to reliable information is an enduring challenge. I examined this problem in my qualitative investigation into health information access challenges facing migrants and people with disability during the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) pandemic in Australia. Guided by a reflexive approach to Interpretive Thematic Analysis, I conducted 12 semi-structured interviews and two focus group discussions with service providers who supported these communities during the pandemic. Findings reveal that being excluded from accessing timely and reliable communication about Covid-19 routinely compelled migrants and people with disability to engage with false (and often dangerous) health claims. Informed by the literature on information resilience and epistemic injustice, this article discusses the important role of accessible health communication in efforts to address the enduring problem of mis/disinformation. I present considerations for research, policy, and practice seeking to improve health and social equity in diverse societies, arguing that effective responses require a more structural and intersectional appreciation of the connection between accessible communication and information resilience.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"314-330"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148833528","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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Why access to health services is hard work: negotiating access in a cross-sectoral mental health program in Denmark. 为什么获得卫生服务是一项艰巨的工作：丹麦跨部门精神卫生项目的谈判。

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Health Sociology Review Pub Date : 2026-10-23 DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2026.2745150

Michael Fehsenfeld, Andreas Nielsen Hald, Katrine Glintborg Iversen, Viola Burau

{"title":"Why access to health services is hard work: negotiating access in a cross-sectoral mental health program in Denmark.","authors":"Michael Fehsenfeld, Andreas Nielsen Hald, Katrine Glintborg Iversen, Viola Burau","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2026.2745150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2026.2745150","url":null,"abstract":"Even in universal healthcare systems structured around principles of free and equal access, inequity in health continues to increase. This study explores how access to healthcare services is constructed in the intersection between individual experiences, organisational arrangements, and broader structural conditions. Using the analytical concept of candidacy, we examine how health and social care professionals and people seeking and receiving care negotiate access in everyday practice. Empirically, the study is based on a critical case study of a novel intersectoral care model for people with severe mental illness implemented in three Danish municipalities. The study draws on an ethnographically inspired design, including 34 individual interviews with people receiving care and health and social care professionals, three focus group interviews with health and social care professionals, and 15 observations of home visits and staff meetings. We show that, even after formal inclusion in a program designed to support access, people receiving care still had to work hard to engage with health and social care professionals, communicate symptoms and care needs, and sustain their eligibility for care. We argue that the candidacy framework helps explain access as an ongoing negotiated process across individual, organisational, and structural levels.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149239984","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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'Then we forget to sit on our hands': how epistemic injustice impedes midwives' and students' capacities to humanize birth. “然后我们忘记了坐以待发”：认识上的不公正如何阻碍助产士和学生将分娩人性化的能力。

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Health Sociology Review Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2025.2599806

Caragh Brosnan, Penny Buykx, Allison Cummins, Campbell Tickner, Katharine Gillett, Lynelle Hill, Elizabeth Newnham

{"title":"'Then we forget to sit on our hands': how epistemic injustice impedes midwives' and students' capacities to humanize birth.","authors":"Caragh Brosnan, Penny Buykx, Allison Cummins, Campbell Tickner, Katharine Gillett, Lynelle Hill, Elizabeth Newnham","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2025.2599806","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2025.2599806","url":null,"abstract":"The ubiquity of negative childbirth experiences, and their repercussions, are gaining increased global attention. 'Humanizing birth' principles, developed by social science and midwifery scholars, promote relationship-based care tailored to women/birthing people's needs. Midwives play a vital role in birth experiences, but little is known about how they form their perspectives on and capacities to facilitate humanized birth. To address this gap, this study analyses Australian midwives' and students' views of a good birth, a good midwife, and the factors assisting or preventing them facilitating humanized birth experiences. Focus groups and semi-structured interviews elicited participants' (n = 23) perspectives. Participants consistently articulate a specialized midwifery approach and knowledge base aligning strongly with humanizing birth principles. However, they describe having their expertise dismissed within the hospital-based birth system, thus prevented from practicing according to these principles and the evidence base. We argue this constitutes epistemic injustice, with testimonial injustice occurring when midwives'/students' knowledge is wrongly overridden by others with higher status in the professional hierarchy, and hermeneutical injustice perpetuated by epistemic assumptions built into the healthcare system itself. Unable to deploy their expertise, midwives experience epistemic stress and are driven to leave the mainstream birth system, further diminishing the possibilities of humanizing birth.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"215-231"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146031278","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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Indigiqueer health and well-being in so-called Australia: an anticolonial approach. 所谓澳大利亚土著人的健康和福利：反殖民主义方针。

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Health Sociology Review Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-07 DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2026.2655622

Corrinne T Sullivan, Kim Spurway, John Leha, Karen Soldatić

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Drug consumption stigma and patient legitimacy: experiences of people who use drugs seeking care for chronic non-cancer pain in Nigeria. 吸毒耻辱感与患者的合法性：尼日利亚吸毒者寻求慢性非癌性疼痛治疗的经历。

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Health Sociology Review Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2024.2413058

Ediomo-Ubong Nelson

{"title":"Drug consumption stigma and patient legitimacy: experiences of people who use drugs seeking care for chronic non-cancer pain in Nigeria.","authors":"Ediomo-Ubong Nelson","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2024.2413058","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2024.2413058","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored how people who use drugs (PWUD) experience and respond to stigma in biomedical chronic non-cancer pain management. Thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with PWUD (n = 26) who had sought care for chronic non-cancer pain in public hospitals in Uyo, Nigeria, drew on the idea of stigma as process of social reproduction and the concept of borderwork. Accounts framed stigma as a normalised feature of healthcare that emerged under different circumstances and operated to position chronic non-cancer pain patients who were PWUD as illegitimate subjects underserving of care. Stigma was widely seen as something to be expected, and was often tolerated by PWUD due to its ubiquity. However, they enacted borderwork marking-off stigma experiences that violated values of fairness and humaneness as well as those that spurned traditional gender norms. Participants responded to intolerable stigma through various acts of resistance, including dropping out of care. Stigma creates barriers to adequate pain management and establishes a context where basic care is accessed at the cost of fundamental human rights and dignity. Routine toleration of stigma helps to naturalise the phenomenon and render it invisible. Resistance to stigma provides a basis for interventions to address all forms of stigma in healthcare.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"156-170"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142577067","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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