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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Sarah Nettleton is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences, with a strong focus on General Health Professions, Neurology, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Clinical Psychology, and Language and Linguistics.

The main topics of Nettleton's work include Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, Language, Discourse, and Communication Strategies, Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders, Geographies of Human-Animal Interactions, Mental Health and Psychiatry, and Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units.

Frequent publication venues for Nettleton are Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health & Illness, Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine, Health Expectations, and the SSM Annual Scientific Meeting.

Several recent papers reflect the scope and focus of their research:

  • "I'm not the doctor; I'm just the patient": Patient agency and shared decision-making in naturally occurring primary care consultations, 2021, Patient Education and Counseling
  • Negotiating uncertainty in clinical encounters: A narrative exploration of naturally occurring primary care consultations, 2021, Social Science & Medicine
  • The coughing body: etiquettes, techniques, sonographies and spaces, 2020, BioSocieties
  • Air care: an 'aerography' of breath, buildings and bugs in the cystic fibrosis clinic, 2020, Sociology of Health & Illness
  • Episodic disability and adjustments for work: the 'rehabilitative work' of returning to employment with Long Covid, 2024, Disability & Society

Notable frequent co-authors include Daryl Martin, Olaug S. Lian, Sue Ziébland, Christina Buse, and Christopher Dowrick, indicating collaborative work across related research areas.

Sarah Nettleton has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. This designation highlights their role within the academic community focused on social sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Sociology of Health and Illness

    Sarah Nettleton

  • ‘I just want permission to be ill’: Towards a sociology of medically unexplained symptoms

    Sarah Nettleton

  • The body in everyday life

    Sarah Nettleton;Jonathan Watson

  • An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

  • The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk

    Robin Bunton;Sarah Nettleton;Roger Burrows

  • The mundane realities of the everyday lay use of the internet for health, and their consequences for media convergence

    Sarah Nettleton;Roger Burrows;Lisa O'Malley

  • Mortgage Debt, Insecure Home Ownership and Health: An Exploratory Analysis

    Sarah Nettleton;Roger Burrows

  • Towards a sociology of diagnosis: Reflections and opportunities

    Annemarie Jutel;Sarah Nettleton

  • VIRTUAL COMMUNITY CARE? SOCIAL POLICY AND THE EMERGENCE OF COMPUTER MEDIATED SOCIAL SUPPORT

    Roger Burrows;Sarah Nettleton;Nicholas Pleace;Brian Loader

  • Conceptualising body work in health and social care

    Julia Twigg;Carol Wolkowitz;Rachel Lara Cohen;Sarah Nettleton

  • The sociology of health promotion

    Robin Bunton;Sarah Nettleton;Roger Burrows

  • Power, pain and dentistry

    Sarah Nettleton

  • The Emergence of E-Scaped Medicine

    Sarah Nettleton

  • Conceptualising 'materialities of care': making visible mundane material culture in health and social care contexts.

    Christina Buse;Daryl Martin;Sarah Joan Nettleton

  • Understanding the narratives of people who live with medically unexplained illness.

    Sarah Nettleton;Ian Watt;Lisa O’Malley;Philip Duffey

  • E-Scaped Medicine? Information, Reflexivity and Health

    Sarah Nettleton;Roger Burrows

  • When a Capital Investment Becomes an Emotional Loss: The Health Consequences of the Experience of Mortgage Possession in England

    Sarah Nettleton;Roger Burrows

  • Medicine on the line? Computer‐mediated social support and advice for people with diabetes

    Brian D. Loader;Steve Muncer;Roger Burrows;Nicholas Pleace

  • Home ownership in a risk society: A social analysis of mortgage arrears and possessions

    Janet Ford;Roger Burrows;Sarah Nettleton

  • Eating patterns among heroin users: a qualitative study with implications for nutritional interventions.

    Joanne Neale;Sarah Nettleton;Lucy Pickering;Jan Fischer

  • Architecture and health care: a place for sociology

    Daryl Martin;Sarah Nettleton;Christina E. Buse;Lindsay Prior

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger Burrows
Roger Burrows Newcastle University
Joanne Neale
Joanne Neale King's College London
Steven Muncer
Steven Muncer Teesside University
Patricia Sloper
Patricia Sloper University of York
Louise Locock
Louise Locock University of Aberdeen
John Marsden
John Marsden King's College London
Celia Kitzinger
Celia Kitzinger University of York
Jenny Kitzinger
Jenny Kitzinger Cardiff University
Judith Green
Judith Green King's College London
Sue Ziebland
Sue Ziebland University of Oxford

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