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'Every space is claimed': smokers' experiences of tobacco denormalisation

scientific article published on 26 May 2010

'If it almost kills you that means it's working!' Cultural models of chemotherapy expressed in a cancer support group

scientific article published on 17 November 2008

A qualitative content analysis of cigarette health warning labels in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

scientific article published in February 2015

Alcohol in Latin America: a social and cultural history

Alcohol, tobacco, obesity and the new public health

article

All gates lead to smoking: the 'gateway theory', e-cigarettes and the remaking of nicotine

scientific article

Being ‘thick’ indicates you are eating, you are healthy and you have an attractive body shape: Perspectives on fatness and food choice amongst Black and White men and women in Canada

article

Biomarkers, the molecular gaze and the transformation of cancer survivorship

scientific article published on June 2013

Book Reviews

Breast vs. the rest: a response to Koczwara and Ward

scientific article

Cancer survivorship, mor(t)ality and lifestyle discourses on cancer prevention

scientific article published on 4 November 2009

Cancer survivorship: why labels matter

scientific article

Censorship in the name of ethics: critical public health research in the age of human subjects regulation

article

Challenging key assumptions embedded in Health Canada's cigarette packaging legislation: Findings from in situ interviews with smokers in Vancouver.

scientific article published in March 2017

Cochrane reviews and the behavioural turn in evidence-based medicine

article

Communicating "Evidence": Lifestyle, Cancer, and the Promise of a Disease-free Future

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

Does the hand that controls the cigarette packet rule the smoker? Findings from ethnographic interviews with smokers in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the USA.

scientific article published on 15 August 2015

Ethical quandaries in social research

Feminism and the Invisible Fat Man

scientific article published in March 2007

Genital cutting and western discourses on sexuality

scientific article

HIV prevention: Making male circumcision the 'right' tool for the job.

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Habits: remaking addiction

Is there an "ideal cancer" support group? Key findings from a qualitative study of three groups

scientific article published in January 2010

Keeping a critical edge: reflections on 25 years as a scholarly journal

article

Medicine, morality and mothering: public health discourses on foetal alcohol exposure, smoking around children and childhood overnutrition

article

Metastatic cancer and mothering: being a mother in the face of a contracted future

scientific article published on November 2011

Nicotine control: E-cigarettes, smoking and addiction

scientific article published on 23 February 2012

Nicotine: Science, regulation and policy

scientific article published on 4 April 2015

On the perils of invoking neoliberalism in public health critique

article

PSA testing: Molecular technologies and men's experience of prostate cancer survivorship

scholarly article by Kirsten Bell & Arminee Kazanjian published 30 March 2011 in Health Risk & Society

Pain, physical dependence and pseudoaddiction: redefining addiction for 'nice' people?

scientific article

Perceptions of food and eating among Chinese patients with cancer: findings of an ethnographic study

scientific article

Pilgrims and Progress: The Production of Religious Experience in a Korean Religion

article

Premature evaluation? Some cautionary thoughts on global pandemics and scholarly publishing

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Remaking the self: trauma, teachable moments, and the biopolitics of cancer survivorship

scientific article

Repenser les suppositions concernant la survivance au cancer

article published in 2014

Reply to P. Tralongo et al.

scientific article

Research ethics committees, ethnographers and imaginations of risk

scientific article published on 30 December 2020

Resisting Commensurability: Against Informed Consent as an Anthropological Virtue

article by Kirsten Bell published July 2014 in American Anthropologist

Rethinking an Assessment of Nicotine Dependence: A Sex, Gender and Diversity Analysis of the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence

article

Rethinking assumptions about cancer survivorship.

scientific article published in January 2014

Signs, things and packaging: Recovering the material agency of the cigarette packet

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Smoking, stigma and tobacco ‘denormalization’: Further reflections on the use of stigma as a public health tool. A commentary on Social Science & Medicine's Stigma, Prejudice, Discrimination and Health Special Issue (67: 3)

article

The Gendering of Religious Experience: Ecstatic Trance in Cheondogyo

The Impact of Cancer on Family Relationships Among Chinese Patients

article

The Social Value of Drug Addicts: Uses of the Useless. MerrillSinger and J. BryanPage, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2014, 248 pp

The breast-cancer-ization of cancer survivorship: implications for experiences of the disease

scientific article published on 28 March 2014

The ‘problem’ of undesigned relationality: Ethnographic fieldwork, dual roles and research ethics

scholarly article by Kirsten Bell published 18 October 2018 in Ethnography

Thwarting the Diseased Will: Ulysses Contracts, the Self and Addiction

scientific article published on September 2015

Tobacco control, harm reduction and the problem of pleasure

What women who use drugs have to say about ethical research: findings of an exploratory qualitative study

scientific article published on December 2011

Whatever happened to the ‘social’ science in Social Science & Medicine? On golden anniversaries and gold standards

scholarly article by Kirsten Bell published October 2018 in Social Science and Medicine

Whither Tobacco Studies?

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