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Joan Busfield

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Publications

25

Citations

5.4K

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18

Active since

1968

Affiliations

University of Essex(Current)

Joan Busfield is an author at University of Essex specializing in social sciences, mental illness, and mental health.

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Publications per year

1968–2020

25

Publications

25

Studies in Ethnomethodology

Joan Busfield, Harold Garfinkel · British Journal of Sociology · 1968 · 3.8K citations

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

Joan Busfield, George W. Brown, Tirril Harris · British Journal of Sociology · 1979 · 307 citations

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

Joan Busfield · Social Science & Medicine · 2010 · 180 citations

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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 · 163 citations

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The concept of medicalisation reassessed

Joan Busfield · Sociology of Health & Illness · 2017 · 142 citations

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