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Faculty working in this area at Sussex are:

John Abraham is a sociologist of medicine, science and public health with research interests in international regulation of the pharmaceuticals industry. He is author of Science, Politics & the Pharmaceutical Industry (1995), The Therapeutic Nightmare (1999) and Regulating Medicines in Europe (2000) and editor of Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry (2003).

Gillian Bendelow is a sociologist of health and medicine who has research interests in areas such as emotion and children's health beliefs and gender, pain and embodiment. Gillian is the author of The Lived Body (1998 with S. Williams), Pain and Gender (2000) and Health, Emotion and the Body (2009).

Courtney Davis is a political sociologist of public health, specialising in pharmaceuticals and occupational safety. She has worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex 's Centre for Research in Health and Medicine, where she has undertaken comparative international research on the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry and drug safety.

Susie Scott has research interests in the areas of mental health (in particular shyness, social anxiety and social phobia) and the medicalisation of social problems, as well as questions of self-identity, interaction and everyday life. Susie is the author of 'Shyness and Society' (Palgrave 2007) and Interpreting Everyday Life (Polity, forthcoming 2009).

Catherine Will works on the sociology of science and technology, social and healthcare policy and regulation. Her most recent research has explored the organisation of clinical trials, in ethnographic work begun as a postdoctoral researcher before moving to Sussex in 2007. She is particularly interested in the production and articulation of different forms of knowledge around prophylactic treatment and innovative therapies for cardiovascular disease, self- care, expertise and evidence in medicine. In addition to journal articles on these topics, she is working on a larger project on 'the meaning of effectiveness' for doctors, patients and governments.