RC15 Sociology of Health

Program Coordinators:

Alan PETERSEN, Monash University, Australia, Alan.petersen@monash.edu

Jae-Mahn SHIM, Korea University, South Korea, jaemahn.shim@gmail.com

Sigrun OLAFSDOTTIR, Iceland, sigruno@hi.is


Sessions:


Ageing Multiple: Navigating Relational and Social Lives of Ageing, Caring, and Dying

Becoming Victims, Being Victims: Narratives of Collective Illness

Digital Health Technologies As Sites of Subjectivation: Algorithmic Care, Self-Governance, and the Making of New Health Subjects

Disasters, Social Determinants, and Health Outcomes from a Global Perspective

Examining Inequality, Governance, and Health Justice In Low-and-Middle Income Countries

Health Care at the Limits: Digitalisation, Vulnerability and Professional Practice In Turbulent Times

Health and Well-Being In East Asia: Reconsidering Care, Community, and Human Relationships through Post-Western Sociology

Healthcare Professionals As Cultural Agents: Exploring the Intersections of Medical Knowledge, Cultural Hegemony and "Common Sense"

Ignorance Production and Medicine

Life at the Threshold: Emerging Biomedical Technologies, Religion, and Health Practices

Medicine In Contemporary China

Navigating Health and Illness through Spiritual Care: Practices, Challenges, and Transformations In Global Healthcare System.

Organizing Care across Boundaries: Coordination, Professional Work, and Lived Experiences

Power, Conflict and Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Public Health Technologies: AI, (Mental) Health, and the Governance Gap

Reimagining Transgender Health, Medicine, and Care: Centering Global South Perspectives, Approaches, and Implications

Religion and Spirituality In Life Transitions. Ritual Practices, Embodied Experiences and Emotional Atmospheres In Birth and Death.

Risk and Uncertainty In Health

School Health As a Social Ecosystem: Food, Community Systems. Media and Risk Behaviours As Determinants of Health

Social Networks (Supports) and Health

Sociology of Infectious Disease

The Politics of Addiction In a Global Digital World: Critical Perspectives

Theorising Health In Troubled Times

Western Biomedicine and Local Healing Systems: Between Resistance and Integration In Promoting Public Health

With, without, or Against AI? Health Decisions, Critical Thinking and Everyday Information Practices