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Gareth M. Thomas

@gmthomas.bsky.social
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Reader | Cardiff University Sociologist (Disability | Health and Illness | Reproduction | Stigma) Co-Editor in Chief of 'Sociology of Health and Illness' He | Him | His

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 01/01/2026
OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal. Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey. buff.ly/lubHIf8
The Sociological Review Journal Vol 74 Issue 1
with contributions from
Yasmin Gunaratnam  Esperança Bielsa
Rin Ushiyama  Nathan Manning   Jacob Lypp
Emma Dowling   Sara Eldén   Zuzana Uhde
Kate Reed and Anna Balazs
Gareth M. Thomas   Giulia Giorgi 
Emma Jackson and Agata Lisiak


https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/74/1
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Delighted to receive this in the post - 'Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry' by @drjamielewis.bsky.social and Andy Bartlett. This book is in the finest STS tradition of showing how an apparently marginal or obscure scientific practice opens up an entire epistemological world.
A hand holdint the book "bigfooters and scientific inquiry" by Jamie Lewis and Andy Bartlett.
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Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Thanks @the-polyphony.bsky.social for sharing your platform with us to give people a sense of what's in the new edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' Available as a free e-book or relatively inexpensive paperback 5/5 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...
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Recalibrating Stigma
Recalibrating Stigma - Sociologies of Health and Illness; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Featuring original analyses from emerging leaders in medical sociology, this book r...
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Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
2 years ago @the-polyphony.bsky.social kindly invited me @gmthomas.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social & Tanisha to write about the book we were putting together on stigma (see ⬇️). Now it's out @brisunipress.bsky.social they've let us do a mini-takeover! 1/5 thepolyphony.org/2023/09/11/r...
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Recalibrating Stigma
Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.
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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My book with Andy Bartlett - an STS analysis of Bigfooting - is now out and available to order at www.routledge.com/Bigfooters-a... If this is of interest, I would really appreciate it being shared. Thank you.
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Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry: On the Borderlands of Legitimate Science
Bigfoot exists. Not necessarily as a biological creature, but certainly as an object around which thousands of Americans organise their lives, analysing evidence, and making knowledge. This book exami...
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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
😍What a pleasure it’s been share the floor with @gmthomas.bsky.social @oliwilliams.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social and Jen Remnant talking about stigma at @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social Check out the book Recalibrating Stigma: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...
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Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection. It is available as a free e-book and in paperback: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...
A copy of the book 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' edited by Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, and Amy Chandler. The front cover of the book depicts a person out at night, lit by the light from a lamppost and looking at posters pasted onto a brick wall that are in the style of the 'WANTED' posters famously associated with the Wild West era of American history. The word 'UNWANTED' has replaced the word 'WANTED'.
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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
26th June: we are excited to host an FSHI funded symposium at U of Edinburgh based around the forthcoming edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: Sociologies of Health and Illness' More details below!
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Gareth M. Thomas @gmthomas.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Free symposium, 'Recalibrating Stigma', on 26.06.25 at at University of Edinburgh. Funded by SHI Foundation. Speakers: Katharine Cheston, Harriet Cooper, Fay Dennis, Janice McLaughlin, Jennifer Remnant, and more! Details: jumpshare.com/v/bzZYybtCP9.... Register by 30/04. Email at thomasg23@cf.ac.uk.
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