Top Ten Most Downloaded Articles

1. Food and eating as social practice – understanding eating patterns as social phenomena and implications for public health
   Treena Delormier, Katherine L. Frohlich and Louise Potvin
2. Shifting blame/selling health: corporate social responsibility in the age of obesity
   Clare Herrick
3. Choosing not to choose: reproductive responses of parents of children with genetic conditions or impairments
   Susan E. Kelly
4. Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept
   Simon Williams
5. Illness narratives: fact or fiction?
   Mike Bury
6. Pro-anorexia, weight-loss drugs and the internet: an “anti-recovery” explanatory model of anorexia
   Nick Fox, Katie Ward and Alan O'Rourke
7. Health-related stigma
   Graham Scambler
8. The determinants of health: structure, context and agency
   Gareth H. Williams
9. Genetic, Cultural or Socio-economic Vulnerability? Explaining Ethnic Inequalities in Health
   James Y. Nazroo
10. Sex, drugs , and politics: the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer
    Monica J. Casper and Laura M. Carpenter

Top 10 articles published in 2007 and 2008 ranked by citations in 2009

1. Author(s): Broom A, Tovey P
   Title: Therapeutic pluralism? Evidence, power and legitimacy in UK cancer services
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 29 (4): 551-569 MAY 2007
   Times Cited During 2009 (to date): 7 (9)
   
   
2. Author(s): Taylor D, Bury M
   Title: Chronic illness, expert patients and care transition
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 29 (1): 27-45 JAN 2007
   Times Cited During 2009 (to date): 6 (9)
   
   
3. Author(s): Nerlich B, Halliday C
   Title: Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 29 (1): 46-65  JAN 2007
   Times Cited During 2009 (to date): 5 (10)
   
   
4. Author(s): Cockerham WC
   Title: Health lifestyles and the absence of the Russian middle class
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 29 (3):  457-473 APR 2007
   Times Cited During 2009 (to date): 5 (7)
   
   
5. Author(s): Sanders T, Harrison S
   Title: Professional legitimacy claims in the multidisciplinary workplace: the case of heart failure care
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 30 (2): 289-308 MAR 2008
   Times Cited During 2009 (to date):  4(5)
   
   
6. Author(s): Jackson S, Scambler G
   Title: Perceptions of evidence-based medicine: traditional acupuncturists in the UK and resistance to biomedical modes of evaluation
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS,  29 (3): 412-429   APR 2007
   Times Cited During 2009 (to date): 4 (5)
   
   
7. Author(s): McDonald R, Mead N, Cheraghi-Sohi S, et al.
   Title: Governing the ethical consumer: identity, choice and the primary care medical encounter
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS,  29 (3): 430-456   APR 2007
   Times Cited During 2009 (to date): 4 (5)
   
   
8. Author(s): Fisher P, Goodley D
   Title: The linear medical model of disability: mothers of disabled babies resist with counter-narratives
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 29 (1): 66-81   JAN 2007
   Times Cited During 2009 (to date): 3 (6)
   
   
9. Author(s): Eikemo TA, Huisman M, Bambra C, et al.
   Title: Health inequalities according to educational level in different welfare regimes: a comparison of 23 European countries
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 30 (4): 565-582   MAY 2008
   Times Cited During 2009 (to date): 3 (5)
   
   
10. Author(s): Nazroo J, Jackson J, Karlsen S, et al.
    Title: The Black diaspora and health inequalities in the US and England: does where you go and how you get there make a difference?
    Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 29 (6): 811-830 SEP 2007
    Times Cited During 2009 (to date): 3 (5)