Epstein, S. (2007), Inclusion : The Politics of Difference in Medical Research, University of Chicago Press, Chicago

Guntram, L. (2013), “‘Differently normal’ and ‘normally different’: Negotiations of female embodiment in women’s accounts of ‘atypical’ sex development”, Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 98, pp. 232–238

Heinämaa, S. (1997), “What is a woman?  Butler and Beauvoir on the foundations of the sexual difference”, Hypatia, Vol. 12 No. 1, p. 20

Johnson, E. (2020), Refracting through Technologies: Bodies, Medical Technologies and Norms, Routledge, London

Warhurst, C., & Nickson, D. (2020). Aesthetic labour. SAGE.

Kuipers, G. (2022). The expanding beauty regime: or why it has become so important to look good. Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty

Jones, M. (2008). Skintight: An anatomy of cosmetic surgery. Berg.

Shilling, C. (2003). The body and social theory (2^nd ed.). Sage

Käll, L.F. and Zeiler, K. (2014), Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine, SUNY Press, Albany.

Kvernflaten, B., Fedorcsák, P. and Solbrække, K.N. (2022), “It’s all about kids, kids, kids! Negotiating reproductive citizenship and patient-centred care in ‘factory IVF’”, BioSocieties

Lindén, L. (2016), Communicating Care: The Contradictions of HPV Vaccination Campaigns, PhD Thesis, Arkiv förlag & tidskrift

Lindén, L. (2021), “Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients’ access to PARP inhibitors”, Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol. 43 No. 9, pp. 2141–2155

Lock, M.M. (1995), Encounters with Aging : Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America, University of California Press, Berkeley

Lorentzen, J.M. (2008), “`I know my own body’: Power and resistance in women’s experiences of medical interactions”, Body & Society, Vol. 14 No. 3, pp. 49–79

Lupton, D. (1994), Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies, Sage, London

Martin, E. (2001), The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, Beacon Press, Boston

Key Member Publications

Boer, M.L., Halsema, A. (2024) Mimicking Myths of Menopause. A critical phenomenological perspective on aging and femininity in fiction TV shows, Philosophy and Social Criticism.

Boer, M.L. de; Marieke Hendriks; Emiel J. Krahmer; Jenny Slatman, and Nadine Bol (2023, online first) ‘Un/tracking menopause. How self-tracking mediates women’s self-experiences in menopause’, Health: an Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness, and Medicine

Boer, M.L. de (2021), ‘Epistemic in/justice in patient participation. A discourse analysis of the Dutch ME/CFS Health Council advisory process.’, Sociology of Health & Illness

Boer, M.L. de, Bondevik, H., Solbraekke, K.N. (2019) ‘Beyond pathology. Women’s lived experiences of melancholy and mourning in infertility treatment‘, BMJ Medical Humanities.

Gripsrud, B. H. (2023). Life pushing through: Coming to writing and mining for deep reflexivity. Qualitative Studies. 8(1): 194-226.

Gripsrud, B. H. (2021). Mothering death: A psychosocial interpretation of breast cancer biography. Special issue on “Suffering in Contemporary Society”. Qualitative Studies.

Gripsrud, B. H., Ramvi, E. & Ribers, B. (2020). Couldn’t care less? A psychosocial analysis of contemporary cancer care policy as a case of borderline welfare. Special issue on Psychosocial approaches to neoliberal policies, institutional settings and welfare practices. Journal of Psychosocial Studies. 13(3): 247-262.

Guntram L (2022) Reproduction and Beyond: Imaginaries of Uterus Transplantation in the Light of Embodied Histories of Living Life Without a Uterus. In: Shaw RM (ed.) Reproductive Citizenship: Technologies, Rights and Relationships. Singapore: Springer Nature, pp. 127–152.

Guntram L (2021) May I have your uterus? The contribution of considering complexities preceding live uterus transplantation. Medical Humanities 47(4): 425–437.

Guntram L and Zeiler K (2019) The Ethics of the Societal Entrenchment-approach and the case of live uterus transplantation-IVF. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 22(4): 557–571.

Hermans, A.M. (2019). Lifting, sculpting, and contouring: Implications of the blurred boundary between cosmetic procedures and ‘other’ beauty products/services. Poetics 90, 101610.

Hermans, A.M., Decates, T., Geysendorpher, L.A., & Lugtenberg, M. (2024). Oops I did it again: Patient experiences of complications after non-invasive cosmetic procedures. Social Science & Medicine, 344, 116685.

Hermans, A.M. (2019). Lifting, sculpting, and contouring: Implications of the blurred boundary between cosmetic procedures and ‘other’ beauty products/services. Poetics 90, 101610.

Hermans, A.M., Decates, T., & Boerman, S.C. (2024). Understanding cosmetic consumers: Exploring consumption patterns and predictors through a cross-sectional survey. European Journal of Plastic Surgery 47, 72.

Kvernflaten, B., Fedorcsák, P., Solbrække, K.N. (2022). It’s all about kids, kids, kids! Negotiating reproductive citizenship and patient centered-care in ‘factory IVF’. BioSocieties.

Lindén, L. (2021). Moving evidence: Patients’ groups, biomedical research, and affects. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 46(4), 815-838.

Lindén, L. (2021). Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients’ access to PARP inhibitors. Sociology of Health & Illness, 43(9), 2141-2155.

Lindén, L. (2021). “Initiators, controllers and influencers: Enacting patient advocacy roles in cervical cancer screening policy practices.” In Geiger, S. Healthcare activism: Markets, morals, and the battle for the common good, pp. 140-164. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Macnaughton J. Making Breath Visible: reflections on relations between bodies, breath and world in the critical medical humanities.  Body and Society 2020; 26 (2), 30-54.

Salad, J., Verdonk, P., De Boer, F., Abma, T. (2015). “A Somali girl is muslim and does not have premarital sex. Is vaccination really necessary?” A qualitative study into the perceptions of Somali women in the Netherlands about the prevention of cervical cancer. International Journal for Equity in Health, 14:68. DOI: 10.1186/s12939-015-0198-3

Solbrække, K. N., Søiland, H., Lode, K. Gripsrud, B. H. (2017). Our Genes, Our Selves: Hereditary breast cancer and biological citizenship in Norway. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. ISSN 1386 7423.  20(1).

Solbrække, K.N. & Lorem, G. (2016). Breast-cancer-ization explored; Social experiences of gyneacological cancer in a Norwegian context. Sociology of Health & Illness. ISSN 0141-9889.38(8), s 1258- 1271.

Whitehead A, Woods A, Atkinson S, Macnaughton J, Richards J. eds.  The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Medical Humanities.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Yoeli H, Macnaughton J, McLusky S. Menopausal symptoms and work: a narrative review of women’s experiences in casual, informal or precarious jobs.  Maturitas 2021; 150: 14-21.