The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

Jarron M. Saint Ongeis Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Kansas and associate professor of Population Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center. His research focuses on social determinants of health disparities, with specific interests in health lifestyles and neighborhood contexts.

Lacee A. Satcheris a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. She received her BA in Psychology from Tougaloo College in 2013, MA in Sociology from Jackson State University in 2015, and MA in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in 2017. Her research interests include race, health, place and inequality, social psychology of health and inequality, health policy, environmental justice, and urban sociology. Her recent research focuses on the race-environment-health connection in the urban American South, specifically how various individual social identities/social locations structure our relations with and within space and place to shape health outcomes and health experiences.

Graham Scambleris Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College London and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Surrey University, UK. He has published extensively in social theory and the sociology of health. Specific foci of his work have been the sociologies of stigma and health inequalities. Recent books include: Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society: A Critical Realist Account (Routledge 2018), which was awarded the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize; A Sociology of Shame and Blame: Insiders Versus Outsiders (Palgrave 2020); and Communal Forms: A Sociological Exploration of the Concept of Community (with Aksel Tjora) (Routledge 2020). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.

Teresa L. Scheidis Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with joint appointments in Public Policy and Health Services Research. She is senior editor (with Eric Wright) of the Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems , 3 rdEd. (Cambridge University Press 2017). She has published widely on the organization and delivery of mental health services and the work of mental health workers that resulted in her 2004 book Tie a Knot and Hang On: Delivering Mental Health Care in a Turbulent Environment . Her most recent books are Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS: Community-Based Strategies (Routledge 2015), Reducing Race Differences in Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising: The Case for Regulation with Stephany De Scisciolo (Lexington 2018), and a forthcoming book with Megan S. Smith titled Ties That Enable: Community Solidarity for Adults Living with Serious Mental Illness to be published by Rutgers University Press.

Janet K. Shimis Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California at San Francisco. Her current program of research focuses on two areas: the sociological analysis of health sciences, particularly how they understand social difference and health inequality, and the study of healthcare interactions and how they produce unequal outcomes. Her work has been funded by the US National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She is a co-editor of Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the US (Duke University Press 2010) and the author of Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease (New York University Press 2014). Her articles have appeared in journals such as American Sociological Review , Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Science, Technology & Human Values, Social Science & Medicine, Social Studies of Science , and Sociology of Health & Illness .

Kim Shueyis Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Her research interests focus on life course sociology, and work and health. She has published in Work and Occupations , Advances in Life Course Research , and the American Journal of Sociology , among other venues.

Eeva Sointuis Senior Lecturer in Sociology at York St. John University, UK. She is the author of Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines: Wellbeing, Self, Class, Gender (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). She studies configurations of power, legitimacy and meaning in the domains of health, well-being and medicine, and conceptualizes social identities and values as central to understanding medical work, health seeking, and the ways in which health practices are represented.

Lijun Songis Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University. Her major research interests include social networks and social capital, medical sociology and mental health, social psychology, social stratification, marriage and family, and comparative historical sociology. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Society and Mental Health, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science & Medicine, Social Networks, Sociological Perspectives, American Behavioral Scientist, Chinese Sociological Review , and Research in the Sociology of Work .

Mieke Beth Thomeeris Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research interests include aging, family, health, gender, and sexuality. In her research, she addresses questions about how family relationships influence and are influenced by physical and mental health, with particular attention to gender. She uses both qualitative and quantitative methods, with special emphasis on dyadic methods. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Public Health , Journal of Marriage and Family , Journal of Gerontology , Social Science & Medicine , Journal of Health and Social Behavior , and other journals. She currently serves as Deputy Editor for the Journal of Marriage and Family , on the editorial boards of several journals, and is Teaching Committee Chair for the American Sociological Association’s Medical Sociology Section.

Jason Adam Wassermanis Associate Professor of Foundational Medical Studies at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, where he also holds an appointment in Pediatrics, is the course director for the Medical Humanities and Clinical Bioethics curriculum, serves as Faculty Advisor on Professionalism, and conduct ethics consultations for area hospitals. His first book, At Home on the Street (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2010) addressed the issue of homelessness, while his current scholarly work focuses on clinical bioethics as well as integrating social science into clinical medicine. The second edition of his book Social and Behavioral Science for Health Professionals (with Brian Hinote) was published in 2020 by Rowman and Littlefield. He has authored numerous articles in journals such as Social Science & Medicine , American Journal of Bioethics, Hastings Center Report, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, JAMA-Pediatrics, Journal of Clinical Ethics, Journal of Preventive Medicine , and The New England Journal of Medicine .

Andrea Willsonis Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Her research focuses the investigation of health inequality over the life course and its transmission across generations. She is Principal Investigator (K. Shuey, co-investigator) of a grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to investigate family context and the intergenerational persistence of health inequality. Her work has appeared in Journal of Health and Social Behavior , International Sociology , and the American Journal of Sociology .