Social Theory and Health

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This journal explores the social, theoretical, and health-related aspects of various phenomena. It examines how resources are transformed into health outcomes, the role of beliefs and attitudes in mental healthcare, and the conceptualization of hospital beds within healthcare systems. The journal also investigates the construction of certainty in psychiatric institutions, the decolonization of sociology in medical education, and the methodological approaches to qualitative health research. Further topics include the organization of lives within institutional orders, the historical evolution of mental healthcare, the social implications of biomedical infrastructures like umbilical cord blood banking, and power dynamics within health services. Additionally, it addresses solidarity in healthcare, the re-politicization of co-design in eHealth, the influence of emotions on work inability, the impact of biomedical technologies on diabetes care, and the experiences of transgender individuals within healthcare systems.

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