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Joan Busfield

University of EssexORCID

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Busfield, J, Busfield, Joan, J Busfield, J Clyde Mitchell, J. Busfield, JOAN BUSFIELD, Joan Busfield

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Joan Busfield is an author at University of Essex specializing in social sciences, medicine, and gender studies.

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Studies in Ethnomethodology

Joan Busfield, Harold Garfinkel

British Journal of Sociology

1968

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Social Origins of Depression: A Study of Psychiatric Disorders in Women

Joan Busfield, George W. Brown, Tirril Harris

British Journal of Sociology

1979

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‘A pill for every ill’: Explaining the expansion in medicine use

Joan Busfield

Social Science & Medicine

2010

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Men, Women, and Madness: Understanding Gender and Mental Disorder

Carol A. B. Warren, Joan Busfield

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

1997

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The concept of medicalisation reassessed

Joan Busfield

Sociology of Health & Illness

2017

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The Symmetrical Family: A Study of Work and Leisure in the London Region

Joan Busfield, Michael Young, Peter Willmott

British Journal of Sociology

1974

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Pills, Power, People: Sociological Understandings of the Pharmaceutical Industry

Joan Busfield

Sociology

2006

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Introduction: Rethinking the sociology of mental health

Joan Busfield

Sociology of Health & Illness

2000

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The Female Malady? Men, Women and Madness in Nineteenth Century Britain

Joan Busfield

Sociology

1994

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Assessing the overuse of medicines

Joan Busfield

Social Science & Medicine

2014

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