Areas/Topics of focus include:

• The social organization of health and long-term care;
• The sociological study of medicine, nursing, and other health professions;
• The interdisciplinary study of care work;
• Medical socialization (the professionalization of medical students and the transformation of lay
  persons into medical professionals);
• Stratification and inequality in health and long term care;
• Racialized and gendered hierarchies at work in acute and long-term care settings
• Paraprofessionals in health and long term care;
• Meaning making and identities among health professionals;
• COVID-19 and its impact on health and long term care;
• The global migration of health professionals;
• Health professions education in international and non-western contexts;
• The study and practice of biomedicine in resource-deprived contexts;
• Qualitative methodologies.