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Research.com Recognitions

  • 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

Simon J. Williams is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with specific contributions to areas such as General Health Professions, Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Clinical Psychology, and Geophysics.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics including Hip and Femur Fractures, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Emergency and Acute Care Studies, and Frailty in Older Adults.

Williams has published in multiple academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Prescriber
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • British Journal of Pain
  • Perioperative Medicine
  • Orthopaedic Proceedings

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Williams span from 2021 to 2024 and include:

  • Psychological distress and trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic: survey of doctors practising anaesthesia, intensive care medicine, and emergency medicine in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, 2021, British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Cognitive impairment and pain relief following hip fractures: a case control study, 2021, British Journal of Pain
  • Frailty in the over 65's undergoing elective surgery (FIT-65) - a three-day study examining the prevalence of frailty in patients presenting for elective surgery, 2022, Perioperative Medicine
  • A GEOMETRIC MODEL OF IMPINGEMENT DURING DISLOCATION-PRONE ACTIVITIES IN DUAL-MOBILITY AND STANDARD ACETABULAR CUPS, 2024, Orthopaedic Proceedings
  • Managing fragmentation and connectivity in River systems, 2023, QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology)

Key frequent coauthors include:

  • Essi Berelian
  • Katherine Laight
  • Paul Sales
  • Maisie Lefèbvre-Jones
  • Rupert Payne

Simon J. Williams has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

    Simon J Williams;Gillian Bendelow

  • Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept

    Simon J. Williams

  • The pharmaceuticalisation of society? A framework for analysis.

    Simon J. Williams;Paul Martin;Jonathan Gabe

  • Emotions in social life: critical themes and contemporary issues

    Gillian Bendelow;Simon J. Williams

  • Theorising class, health and lifestyles: can Bourdieu help us?

    Simon J. Williams

  • Transcending the dualisms: towards a sociology of pain

    Gillian A. Bendelow;Simon J. Williams

  • The 'limits' of medicalization?: modern medicine and the lay populace in 'late' modernity.

    Simon J. Williams;Michael .W. Calnan

  • Is anybody there? Critical realism, chronic illness and the disability debate

    Simon J. Williams

  • Evaluating the influence of implicit models of mental disorder on processes of shared decision making within community-based multi-disciplinary teams

    A. Colombo;Gillian Bendelow;B. Fulford;Simon J. Williams

  • The vicissitudes of embodiment across the chronic illness trajectory

    Simon J. Williams

  • The sociology of pharmaceuticals: progress and prospects.

    Simon J. Williams;Jonathan Gabe;Peter Davis

  • Beyond Meaning, Discourse and the Empirical World: Critical Realist Reflections on Health

    Simon J Williams

  • Medicine and the body

    Simon Johnson Williams

  • Sleep and society : sociological ventures into the (un)known--

    Simon J. Williams

  • Waking up to sleepiness: Modafinil, the media and the pharmaceuticalisation of everyday/night life

    Simon J. Williams;Clive Seale;Sharon Boden;Pam Lowe

  • Why do women consent to surgery, even when they do not want to? An interactionist and Bourdieusian analysis.

    Mary Dixon-Woods;Simon J. Williams;Clare J. Jackson;Andrea Akkad

  • Parsons revisited: from the sick role to...?

    Simon Johnson Williams

  • Neuroculture, active ageing and the ‘older brain’: problems, promises and prospects

    Simon J. Williams;Paul Higgs;Stephen Katz

  • Pain and the mind-body dualism: a sociological approach

    Gillian Bendelow;Simon Williams

  • Health, Medicine and Society : Key Theories, Future Agendas

    Simon J. Williams;Jonathan Gabe;Michael .W. Calnan

  • Debating biology: sociological reflections on health, medicine and society

    Simon J Williams;Lynda Birke;Gillian A Bendelow

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Gabe
Jonathan Gabe Royal Holloway University of London
Michael .W. Calnan
Michael .W. Calnan University of Kent
Clive Seale
Clive Seale Brunel University London
Mary Dixon-Woods
Mary Dixon-Woods University of Cambridge
Sara Arber
Sara Arber University of Surrey
Ann Oakley
Ann Oakley University College London
Nick Crossley
Nick Crossley University of Manchester
Frances Griffiths
Frances Griffiths University of Warwick
Walter R. Roest
Walter R. Roest University of Western Brittany
Rupert Sutherland
Rupert Sutherland Victoria University of Wellington

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