Health and bodies

Papers on health and embodiment by Nick J Fox and associates.

Fox, N.J. (2024). The critical (micro)political economy of health: A more-than-human approach. Health, 28(1): 22-39. (First published 22 July 2022).

Burr, J and Fox, N.J. (2023). The more-than-human micropolitics of the dissection assemblage: what can a ‘dead’ body do?  Body & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X231189458

Cluley, V., Fox, N. J. and Radnor, Z. (2023) Becoming frail: a more-than-human exploration.  Health. 27(3): 417-434. (First published online 22 Sept 2021).

Fox, N. J. and Alldred, P. (2022). Bodies, non-human matter and the micropolitical production of sociomaterial dis/advantage. Journal of Sociology, 58(4): 499 –516.

Fox, N. J. and Powell, K. (2021). Non‐human matter, health disparities and a thousand tiny dis/advantages. Sociology of Health & Illness, 43(3): 779-795.  

Fox, N.J. and Alldred, P. (2019) The materiality of memory; affects, remembering and food decisions.  Cultural Sociology, 13(1): 20-36

Fox, N.J., Bissell, P., Peacock, M. et al. (2018) The micropolitics of obesity: materialism, neoliberal markets and food sovereignty. Sociology, 52(1): 111-127.

Fox, N.J. (2018) Reconceptualising bodies.  In: Scambler, G. (ed.) Sociology Applied to Health and Medicine 7th Edition, pp. 263-276.  London: Palgrave.

Fox, N.J. and Bale, C. (2017) Bodies, pornography and the circumscription of sexuality: a new materialist study of young people’s sexual practices.  Sexualities, 21(3): 393–409.

Alldred, P. and Fox, N.J. (2017) Young bodies, power and resistance: a new materialist perspective.  Journal of Youth Studies, 20(9): 1161-1175.  

Fox, N.J. (2016) Health sociology from post-structuralism to the new materialisms.  Health, 20(1): 62-74.

Fox, N.J. and Alldred, P. (2016) Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach. Public Health, 141: 287-293.

Fox, N.J. and Alldred, P. (2016) The resisting young body. In: Coffey, J., Budgeon, S. and Cahill, H. (eds.) Learning Bodies: The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies.  Singapore: Springer-Verlag.

Fox, N.J. (2012) The Body.  Cambridge: Polity Press.

Fox, N.J. (2011) The ill-health assemblage: beyond the body-with-organs’.  Health Sociology Review 20(4): 356–368.

Fox, N.J. and Ward, K.J. (2008) Pharma in the bedroom … and the kitchen.  The pharmaceuticalisation of daily life.  Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph. 30(6): 856-868.

Fox, N. J. (2002). Refracting ‘health’: Deleuze, Guattari and body-self. Health:, 6(3), 347-363.