Dr Eeva Sointu

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Dr Eeva Sointu

Email:

e.sointu@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

Social Sciences

Biography

Expertise:

Gender, Body and embodiment, Sociology of health and healthcare, Inequalities, Complementary and alternative medicines, Medical education, Therapeutic thinking, Emotion

Job title:

Associate Professor: Sociology

Biography:

Until June 2017, I was a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology at Smith College, USA. Before starting at YSJ, I was also an Honorary Visiting Fellow and a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK.

Qualifications:

I completed my B.A. in Religious Studies, my M.A. in Religion, Culture and Society, and my Ph.D. in Sociology at Lancaster University.

My Latest

Sointu, Eeva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-2096 and Hill, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3849-1170 (2020) Trump Therapy: Personal Identity, Political Trauma and the Contradictions of Therapeutic Practice. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25 (3). pp. 880-896.
Sointu, Eeva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-2096 (2020) Challenges and a Super Power: How Medical Students Understand and Would Improve Health in Neoliberal Times. Critical sociology, 46 (6). pp. 851-865.
Sointu, Eeva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-2096 (2012) Exploring the focus group method: a practical experience. In: Skott, Beth P. and Ward, Masjo, (eds.) Active Learning Exercises for Research Methods in Social Sciences. Sage, pp. 102-105
Sointu, Eeva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-2096 (2006) Recognition and the Creation of Wellbeing. Sociology, 40 (3). pp. 493-510.
Sointu, Eeva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-2096 (2006) Healing Bodies, Feeling Bodies: Embodiment and Alternative and Complementary Health Practices. Social Theory & Health, 4 (3). pp. 203-220.
Sointu, Eeva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-2096 and Woodhead, Linda (2008) Spirituality, Gender, and Expressive Selfhood. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 47 (2). pp. 259-276.
Sointu, Eeva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-2096 (2011) Detraditionalisation, gender and alternative and complementary medicines. Sociology of Health and Illness, 33 (3). pp. 356-371.
Sointu, Eeva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-2096 (2005) The Rise of an Ideal: Tracing Changing Discourses of Wellbeing. The Sociological Review, 53 (2). pp. 255-274.
Sointu, Eeva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-2096 (2012) Theorizing complementary and alternative medicines : wellbeing, self, gender, class. Palgrave
Sointu, Eeva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-2096 (2016) Discourse, Affect and Affliction. The Sociological Review, 64 (2). pp. 312-328.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	‘Good’ patient/‘bad’ patient: clinical learning and the entrenching of inequality	118	344
2	The Rise of an Ideal: Tracing Changing Discourses of Wellbeing	115
3	Complementary and alternative medicines, embodied subjectivity and experiences of healing	104
4	Spirituality, Gender, and Expressive Selfhood	100
5	Discourse, Affect and Affliction	94	87
6	Detraditionalisation, gender and alternative and complementary medicines	89
7	Exploring the focus group method: a practical experience	86
8	Complementary and Alternative Medicine	85
9	The search for wellbeing in alternative and complementary health practices	83
10	Theorizing complementary and alternative medicines : wellbeing, self, gender, class	83