Top Ten Most Downloaded Articles

1. The Methodology of Focus Groups: the importance of interaction between research and participant
   Jenny Kitzinger
2. Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept
   Simon Williams
3. 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
4. The sociology of chronic illness: a review of research and prospects
   Michael Bury
5. Health-related stigma
   Graham Scambler
6. Shifting blame/selling health: corporate social responsibility in the age of obesity
   Clare Herrick
7. Loss of self: a fundamental form of suffering in the chronically ill
   Kathy Charmaz
8. Choosing not to choose: reproductive responses of parents of children with genetic conditions or impairments
   Susan E. Kelly
9. Illness narratives: fact or fiction?
   Mike Bury
10. Pro-anorexia, weight-loss drugs and the internet: an “anti-recovery” explanatory model of anorexia
    Nick Fox, Katie Ward and Alan O'Rourke

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

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Author(s): Greenhalgh T, Voisey C, Robb N
   Title: Interpreted consultations as 'business as usual'? An analysis of organisational routines in general practices
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 29 (6): 931-954 SEP 2007
6. 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
7. Author(s): Martin GP
   Title: 'Ordinary people only': knowledge, representativeness, and the publics of public participation in healthcare
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 30 (1): 35-54 JAN 2008
8. Author(s): Ahmad WIU, Bradby H
   Title: Locating ethnicity and health: exploring concepts and contexts
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 29 (6): 795-810 SEP 2007
9. Author(s): Prus SG
   Title: Age, SES, and health: a population level analysis of health inequalities over the lifecourse
   Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 29 (2): 275-296 MAR 2007
10. Author(s): Wilson S
    Title: 'When you have children, you're obliged to live': motherhood, chronic illness and biographical disruption
    Source: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS 29 (4): 610-626 MAY 2007