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Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine Template

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About the Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine format

Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Empathy and Medical Education, Mental Health and Psychiatry. Over its lifetime it has published 1,312 papers, which have received 29,949 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inMental Health and Patient Involvement Empathy and Medical Education Mental Health and Psychiatry Obesity and Health Practices Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
ISSN1363-4593
Citation impact (2-yr)1.31
h-index81
i10-index664
Top institutions publishing hereUNSW Sydney
Journal websitewww.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine per year

52
2014
44
2015
39
2016
46
2017
38
2018
60
2019
41
2020
70
2021
36
2022
35
2023
38
2024
47
2025

Citation impact of Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine by publication year

1.3K
2014
1.3K
2015
914
2016
1K
2017
806
2018
1K
2019
526
2020
709
2021
228
2022
167
2023
95
2024
59
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine

Health as a meaningful social practice

Robert Crawford · 14 Sep 2006

The pursuit of health has become a highly valued activity in modern and contemporary life, commanding enormous resources and generating an expansive professionalization and commercialization along with attendant goods, services and knowledge. Health has also become a focal, signifying practice. As a 'key word', health is constructed in relation to social structures and experience and…

Stem Cells, Tissue Cultures and the Production of Biovalue

Catherine Waldby · 1 Jul 2002

This article examines some of the social and philosophical implications of stem cell technologies. Stem cell technologies promise to transform the way that healthy tissues for transplant are sourced and circulated; from a social economy in which citizens donate whole organs to others, to one in which embryos are a major source of therapeutic tissues.…

The plastic brain: Neoliberalism and the neuronal self

Victoria Pitts‐Taylor · 25 Oct 2010

Neuroscience-based representations and practices of the brain aimed at lay populations present the brain in ways that both affirm biological determinism and also celebrate plasticity, or the brain's ability to change structure and function. Popular uses of neuroscientific theories of brain plasticity are saturated with a neoliberal vision of the subject. Against more optimistic readings…

Chronic illness and health-seeking information on the Internet

Stephanie L. Ayers, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld · 1 Jul 2007

By using the theories of help-seeking behavior and health-information seeking, this article demonstrates the relationship between chronic illness, retrieving health information from the Internet and changing health behavior. Research on the impact of health information on the Internet and changing health behavior is fairly new, given the growth of the Internet in recent years. Using…

Distinguishing distress from disorder as psychological outcomes of stressful social arrangements

Allan V. Horwitz · 1 Jul 2007

Some studies in the sociology of stress conceptualize their outcome variables as distress, while others treat the same outcomes as mental disorder. This article focuses on the importance of distinguishing between the two. It argues that there are fundamental differences between distress that arises in non-disordered persons and genuine mental disorder but that studies of…

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Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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