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.