The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

Ron Barrettis Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. His research focuses on the social determinants of infectious diseases and the anthropology of death and dying. His first book, Aghor Medicine (University of California Press), is an ethnography of religious healing and the stigma of leprosy in northern India. It was awarded the Wellcome Medal by the Royal Anthropological Institute. He also co-authored An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections (Oxford University Press) with George Armelagos, which explores the human determinants of disease in three transition periods occurring in the Neolithic, the Industrial Revolution, and today. Professor Barrett is also a former registered nurse with clinical experience in neurointensive care, brain injury rehabilitation, and hospice.

Shawn Bauldryis Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. His interests in medical sociology include the interrelationship between education and health over the life course and across generations, the evolution of health lifestyles over the life course, and disparities in mental health and mental health care utilization. In addition, he works in the area of applied statistics with a focus on structural equation modeling and models for categorical data. His work has appeared in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior , Social Science & Medicine , Sociological Methodology , and Sociological Methods & Research among others.

Jaunathan Bilodeauis a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His work focuses on the relationship between work-family conflict and mental health, as well as the structural determinants of health inequalities such as gender and social policies. He recently published in Stress & Health , Social Science & Medicine and Annals of Work Exposure and Health .

Carol A. Boyeris former Associate Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and graduate faculty in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. She has devoted her career to health services research and policy and interdisciplinary studies informed by clinical experience in acute-care and emergency settings. With over 30 years’ experience in mental health services research focusing on populations with severe mental illnesses and their medical co-morbidities, her studies addressed access, utilization, stigma, quality of life and the content and outcomes of treatment and services provided to individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, psychosocial interventions and strategies to enhance adherence with antipsychotic medications and linking individuals successfully to home and community services. Her research informed developing and implementing training programs including both didactic and experiential learning components.

Hannah Bradbyis Professor at the Sociology Department, Uppsala University, Sweden since 2013, having previously held a senior lectureship at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research interrogates the links between identity, structure and health with particular reference to racism, ethnicity and religion. She is Field Chief Editor for Frontiers in Sociology and blogs regularly at Cost of Living .

Cindy L. Cainis Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her interests in medical sociology include changes within the healthcare system, the experiences of healthcare workers, and care for vulnerable older adults. In addition, she specializes in qualitative and mixed methods approaches and is especially interested in how we can better integrate different methods. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior , Sociology of Health & Illness , Journal of Contemporary Ethnography , The Gerontologist , and other journals.

Yvonne Chenis a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her major research interests center on race and ethnicity, mental health, social stratification, and social networks. Her work has appeared in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity .

Kirsten Ostergren Clarkis a PhD candidate in medical sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research interests are developmental disabilities, masculinity and fatherhood, and religion and health. She earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of South Carolina and spent several years supervising group homes for individuals with developmental disabilities and working as a renal social worker in dialysis clinics. Her dissertation is a qualitative project involving fatherhood and developmental disabilities.

Adele E. Clarkeis Professor Emerita of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California at San Francisco. Her books include Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and “Problems of Sex” (1998, Fleck Award, Society for Social Studies of Science; and Basker Award, Society for Medical Anthropology), Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern Turn (2005, Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction), co-edited The Right Tools for the Job in Twentieth Century Life Sciences (1992), Women’s Health: Differences and Complexities (1997), Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing (1999), Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the US (2010), Situational Analysis in Practice (2015), and co-authored Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn (2018). She received the Bernal Prize (Society for Social Studies of Science, 2012), the Reeder Award (Medical Sociology Section, ASA, 2015), and sessions in her honor at American Anthropological Association (2012) and Pacific Sociological Association (2019) meetings.

William C. Cockerhamis Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Research Scholar of Sociology at the College of William & Mary. He is past president of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and author or editor of several books and articles on medical sociology. Additionally, he is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and previously served on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review , Society and Mental Health , and other journals. He also has held editorial positions for several encyclopedias, including Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society (Wiley Blackwell 2014) and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Public Health , 2 nded. (Academic Press 2017). His most recent books include Social Causes of Health and Disease , 3rd ed. (Polity 2021), Sociological Theories of Health and Illness (Routledge 2021), Sociology of Mental Disorder , 11th ed. (Routledge 2021), and Medical Sociology , 15th ed. (Routledge 2021).

Kaitlin Conwayis a PhD student in Sociology at McGill University, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Amélie Quesnel Vallée. Her research focuses on the life course health inequalities of marginalized populations in Canada and the US. Prior to beginning her PhD, Kaitlin worked in the non-profit sector in both research and program monitoring capacities, both with a focus on global health. She holds a Master of Science in Global Health from King’s College London and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in International Development from McGill University.