Professor Joan Busfield
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Email
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Location
6.338, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Joan trained initially as a clinical psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic. She then worked on a study of the social influences on family size published (with M.Paddon) as Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England (1977).Her research has focussed on psychiatry and mental illness. Her other books include: Managing Madness: Changing Ideas and Practice (1986) Men, Women and Madness (1996) Health and Healthcare in Modern Britain (2000) Mental Illness (2011). More recently her research has focused on the use of medicines and the pharmaceutical industry.
Qualifications
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MA (St Andrews)
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MA (Essex)
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PhD (Essex)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Mental Disorder
Psychiatry, Gender and Mental Disorder
History of Psychiatry
Medicines and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Teaching and supervision
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 16/7/2020
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/4/2020
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 6/2/2020
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 6/7/2018
Degree subject: Sociological Research
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 21/6/2018
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 12/3/2018
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 20/6/2017
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Master of Arts (by Dissertation)
Awarded date: 6/12/2013
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 13/12/2012
Publications
Journal articles (73)
Busfield, J., (2022). Jonathan Sadowsky, The Empire of Depression: A New History. Psychoanalysis and History. 24 (1), 111-113
Busfield, J., (2021). The moral economy of the pharmaceutical industry: Legitimising prices. Health. 25 (3), 271-287
Russell Jonsson, K., Busfield, J., Södergren, M., Karen, M. and Adjei, NK., (2020). Social Capital, Deprivation and Psychological Well-Being among Young Adolescents: A Multilevel Study from England and Wales.. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17 (10), 3420-3420
Busfield, J., (2020). Documenting the financialisation of the pharmaceutical industry. Social Science and Medicine. 258, 113096-113096
Busfield, J., (2017). The concept of medicalisation reassessed: a rejoinder. Sociology of Health and Illness. 39 (5), 781-783
Busfield, J., (2017). The Concept of Medicalisation Reassessed. Sociology of Health and Illness. 39 (5), 759-774
Busfield, J., (2015). Assessing the overuse of medicines. Social Science and Medicine. 131, 199-206
Busfield, J., (2015). Unhealthy Pharmaceutical Regulation: Innovation, Politics, and Promissory Science. By Courtney Davis and John Abraham. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xii+321. $105.00.. American Journal of Sociology. 120 (5), 1585-1587
Busfield, J., (2013). Horwitz, AV. and Wakefield, JC.All We Have To Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. 288pp £18.99 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐979375‐4. Sociology of Health & Illness. 35 (5), 793-794
Busfield, J., (2012). Challenging claims that mental illness has been increasing and mental well-being declining.. Social Science & Medicine. 75 (3), 581-8
Busfield, J., (2011). The Weariness of Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age. By Alain Ehrenberg. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010. Pp. xxx+345. $29.95.. American Journal of Sociology. 116 (5), 1699-1701
Busfield, J., (2011). Black Dogs and Blue Words: Depression and Gender in the Age of Self‐Care. Sociology of Health & Illness. 33 (1), 164-165
Busfield, J., (2010). ?A pill for every ill?: Explaining the expansion in medicine use. Social Science & Medicine. 70 (6), 934-941
Busfield, J., (2008). Mental Illness and the Body: Beyond Diagnosis. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS. 30 (7)
Busfield, J., (2008). The Loss of Sadness: How psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder ‐ by Horwitz, A.V. and Wakefield, J.C.. Sociology of Health & Illness. 30 (3), 484-486
Busfield, J., (2007). Sociological Understandings of the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Response to John Abraham. Sociology. 41 (4), 737-739
Busfield, J., (2006). Pills, Power, People: Sociological Understandings of the Pharmaceutical Industry. Sociology. 40 (2), 297-314
Busfield, J., (2004). Mental health problems, psychotropic drug technologies and risk. Health, Risk & Society. 6 (4), 361-375
Busfield, J., (2004). Class and gender in twentieth-century British psychiatry: shell-shock and psychopathic disorder.. Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 73, 295-322
Busfield, J., (2003). Globalization and the Pharmaceutical Industry Revisited. International Journal of Health Services. 33 (3), 581-605
Busfield, J., (2002). Creating mental illness. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY. 108 (2), 523-524
Busfield, J., (2000). Introduction: Rethinking the sociology of mental health. Sociology of Health & Illness. 22 (5), 543-558
Busfield, J. and Doubt, K., (2000). Towards a Sociology of Schizophrenia: Humanistic Reflections. Contemporary Sociology. 29 (6), 864-864
Busfield, J., (2000). Gender and mental health.. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS. 22 (6), 883-885
Busfield, J., (2000). Gender inequalities in health.. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS. 22 (6), 883-885
Busfied, J., (1999). Mental Health Policy: making gender and ethnicity visible. Policy & Politics. 27 (1), 57-73
Busfield, J., (1998). Restructuring mental health services in twentieth century Britain.. Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 49, 9-28
Busfield, J., (1998). The psychiatric team and the social definition of schizophrenia: An anthropological study of person and illness.. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS. 20 (4), 556-557
(1996). Book Reviews. Sociology of Health & Illness. 18 (3), 422-431
Busfield, J., (1996). Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court.Joel Peter Eigen. American Journal of Sociology. 101 (4), 1149-1150
Busfield, J., (1995). Medicine and the Five Senses (Book).. Sociology of Health & Illness. 17 (1), 123-124
BUSFIELD, J., (1995). THE SOCIAL-ORGANIZATION OF MENTAL-ILLNESS - PRIOR,L. SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW. 43 (2), 370-373
BUSFIELD, J., (1995). Book Reviews. Sociology. 29 (2), 370-372
Busfield, J., (1994). The Female Malady? Men, Women and Madness in Nineteenth Century Britain. Sociology. 28 (1), 259-277
BUSFIELD, J., (1994). Book Reviews. Sociology. 28 (2), 594-596
Busfield, J., (1992). Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory (Book).. Sociology of Health & Illness. 14 (4), 539-540
BUSFIELD, J., (1992). Book Reviews. Sociology. 26 (1), 162-163
BUSFIELD, J., (1992). Book Reviews. Sociology. 26 (4), 710-712
Busfield, J., (1991). Governing the Soul: The shaping of the private self (Book).. Sociology of Health and Illness. 13 (2), 276-278
Busfield, J., (1991). Mind, Stress and Health (Book).. Sociology of Health & Illness. 13 (1), 118-119
Busfield, J., (1990). Sectoral Divisions in Consumption: The Case of Medical Care. Sociology. 24 (1), 77-96
Busfield, J., (1990). Compromising health. Science as Culture. 1 (9), 134-139
BUSFIELD, J., (1990). Book Reviews. Sociology. 24 (2), 335-337
BUSFIELD, J., (1990). THE HEALTH-SERVICES SINCE THE WAR, VOL 1, PROBLEMS OF HEALTH-CARE - THE NATIONAL-HEALTH-SERVICE BEFORE 1957 - WEBSTER,C. SCIENCE AS CULTURE (9), 134-139
Busfield, J., (1989). Sexism and Psychiatry. Sociology. 23 (3), 343-364
BUSFIELD, J., (1989). THE REGULATION OF MADNESS - THE ORIGINS OF INCARCERATION IN FRANCE - CASTEL,R. SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW. 37 (3), 599-602
BUSFIELD, J., (1989). Book Reviews. Sociology. 23 (3), 459-461
Busfield, J., (1988). Mental illness as social product or social construct: a contradiction in feminists’ arguments?. Sociology of Health & Illness. 10 (4), 521-542
Busfield, J., (1988). Mental illness as social product or social construct: a contradiction in feminists' arguments?. Sociology of Health and Illness. 10 (4), 521-542
BUSFIELD, J., (1988). Book Reviews. Sociology. 22 (2), 293-294
Busfield, J., (1987). The Cultural Meeting of Popular Science: Phrenology and the organization of consent in nineteenth‐century Britain (Book).. Sociology of Health & Illness. 9 (2), 215-217
BUSFIELD, J., (1987). Book Reviews. Sociology. 21 (3), 498-499
BUSFIELD, J., (1987). THE FEMALE MALADY - WOMEN, MADNESS AND ENGLISH CULTURE, 1830-1980 - SHOWALTER,E. NEW SOCIETY. 80 (1278), 27-27
BUSFIELD, J., (1987). THE REALITY OF MENTAL-ILLNESS - ROTH,M, KROLL,J. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 26, 159-160
BUSFIELD, J., (1986). Book Reviews. Sociology. 20 (1), 109-110
Busfield, J., (1986). Book Reviews. Sociology. 20 (2), 309-311
Busfield, J., (1985). Roger Smith, Trial by medicine: insanity and responsibility in Victorian trials. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981. Pp. ix + 238. £15.00.. The British Journal for the History of Science. 18 (1), 89-90
BUSFIELD, J., (1984). MENTAL-ILLNESS AND AMERICAN-SOCIETY, 1875-1940 - GROB,GN. NEW SOCIETY. 67 (1109), 296-297
BUSFIELD, J., (1984). MANAGING THE MIND - A STUDY OF MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY BRITAIN - DONNELLY,M. NEW SOCIETY. 67 (1109), 296-297
Busfield, J., (1983). Madmen and the Bourgeoisie: A Social History of Insanity and Psychiatry/Madhouses, Mad‐Doctors and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era (Book).. Sociology of Health & Illness. 5 (1), 107-108
BUSFIELD, J., (1983). THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FAMILY AND MARRIAGE IN EUROPE - GOODY,J. NEW SOCIETY. 66 (1099), 411-412
BUSFIELD, J., (1983). Book Reviews. Sociology. 17 (1), 121-122
Busfield, J., (1983). Medical Sciences - Celia Davies (ed.), Rewriting nursing history. London: Croom Helm. Totowa N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1980. £11.95; £5.95 (paperback).. The British Journal for the History of Science. 16 (1), 92-93
Busfield, J., (1982). Gender and Mental Illness. International Journal of Mental Health. 11 (1-2), 46-66
Busfield, J., (1980). The Dignity of Labour? A study of childbearing and induction. Sociology. 14 (1), 157-159
BUSFIELD, J., (1980). BASTARDY AND ITS COMPARATIVE HISTORY - LASLETT,P, OOSTERVEEN,K, SMITH,RM. NEW SOCIETY. 53 (922), 143-143
Busfield, J., Brown, GW. and Harris, T., (1979). Social Origins of Depression: A Study of Psychiatric Disorders in Women. The British Journal of Sociology. 30 (4), 543-543
Busfield, J., (1977). Psychiatry in Dissent; Controversial Issues in Thought and Practice. Sociology. 11 (3), 563-564
BUSFIELD, J., (1977). SYNDROMES OF 70S - POPULATION, SEX AND SOCIAL-CHANGE - LORAINE,JA. NEW SOCIETY. 41 (770), 34-34
Busfield, J., (1972). Age at marriage and family size: social causation and social selection hypotheses. Journal of Biosocial Science. 4 (1), 117-134
Busfield, J. and Hawthorn, G., (1971). Some social determinants of recent trends in British fertility. Journal of Biosocial Science. 3 (S3), 65-77
Busfield, J. and Hawthorn, G., (1971). Some social determinants of recent trends in British fertility.. Journal of biosocial science. Supplement (3), 65-77
Busfield, J., (1969). College Women and Fertility Values. Sociology. 3 (3), 449-449
Books (8)
(2014). De-Medicalizing Misery II. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 9781137304650
Busfield, J., (2011). Mental Illness. Polity. 9780745649054
Morris, L., (2006). Rights: Sociological perspectives. Routledge. 9780415355216
Busfield, J., (2000). Health and health care in modern Britain. Oxford University Press. 0198781237
Busfield, J., (1996). Men, women, and madness: understanding gender and mental disorder. Macmillan. 0333463692
Busfield, J. and Lyon, SE., (1996). Methodological imaginations. Palgrave Macmillan. 9780333630921
Busfield, J., (1986). Managing madness: changing ideas and practice. Unwin Hyman. 9780044453802
Busfield, J. and Paddon, M., (1977). Thinking about children: sociology and fertility in post-war England. Cambridge University Press. 0521214025
Book chapters (19)
Busfield, NJ., Psychiatric disorder and individual violence: evidence and perceptions. In: Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community. Editors: Buchanan, A. and Wootton, L.,
Busfield, J., (2023). The sociology of mental health and illness. In: Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine. Edward Elgar Publishing. 151- 169. 9781839104749
Busfield, J., (2018). Mental Illness and Social Problems. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems Volume 2. Editors: Treviño, AJ., . Cambridge University Press. 23- 42. 9781108550710
Busfield, J., (2016). Gender and mental health. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare. 172- 188
Busfield, J., (2016). Mental Health Policy and Governance. In: The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan. 479- 493. 9781137384935
Busfield, J., (2015). Mental Health Policy and Governance. In: The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance. Editors: Kuhlmann, E., Blank, R., Bourgeault, IL. and Wendt, C., . Palgrave Macmillan. 479- 493. 9781137384928
Busfield, J., (2014). Entries on 'DSM-III', 'DSM-IV', 'DSM-5',?Pharmaceutical Industry? and Sociology of Medicalisation. In: Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide. Editors: Scull, A., . Sage. 9781483346342
Busfield, J., (2014). Gender and Mental Illness. In: The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Editors: Cockerham, W., Dingwell, R. and Quah, SR., . Wiley Blackwell. 620- 629. 978-1-4443-3076-2
Busfield, J., (2014). Transforming Misery into Sickness: The Genealogy of Depression in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. In: De-Medicalizing Misery II: Society, Politics and the Mental Health Industry. Editors: Speed, E., Moncrieff, J. and Rapley, M., . Palgrave Macmillan. 154- 173. 9781137304643
Busfield, J., (2013). The pharmaceutical industry and mental disorder. In: Madness Contested: Power and Practice. Editors: Coles, S., Keenan, S. and Diamond, B., . PCCS Books. 9781906254438
Busfield, J., (2012). Gender and mental health. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare (2nd edition). Editors: Kuhlmann, E. and Annandale, E., . Palgrave Macmillan. 192- 208. 9781137015143
Busfield, J., (2012). The archaeology of psychiatric disorder: Gender and disorders of thought, emotion and behaviour. In: Gender, Health and Healing: The Public/Private Divide. 144- 162
Busfield, J., (2008). Pharmaceutical Industry (Worldwide). In: Encyclopedia of Global Health. Editors: Zhang, Y., . Sage. 9781412941860
Busfield, J., (2008). Pills, power, people: sociological understandings of the pharmaceutical industry. In: Perspectives in Medical Sociology (4th edition). Editors: Brown, P., . Waveland Press. 411- 427. 9781577665182
Busfield, J., (2008). Pills, power, people: sociological understandings of the pharmaceutical industry. In: Contemporary Readings in Social Problems. Editors: Leon-Guerrero, A. and Zentgraf, K., . Sage. 297- 314. 9781412965309
(2006). Choosing Methods in Mental Health Research. In: Choosing Methods in Mental Health Research: Mental Health Research from Theory to Practice. Editors: Slade, M. and Priebe, S., . Routledge. 213- 222
Busfield, J., (2006). Mental disorder and human rights. In: Rights: Sociological Perspectives. Editors: Morris, L., . Routledge. 209- 223. 9780415355216
Busfield, J., (2006). Medicalisation. In: Sociology: The Key Concepts. 99- 103
Howarth, D., (2006). Dorothy Smith. In: Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists. Editors: Scott, J., . Routledge. 200- 204. 0415352568
Conferences (1)
BUSFIELD, J., (1992). MEDICINE AND MARKETS - POWER, CHOICE AND THE CONSUMPTION OF PRIVATE MEDICAL-CARE
Reports and Papers (1)
Rose, D., Corti, L., Crewe, I. and Busfield, J., (1991). Micro-social change in Britain: an outline of the role and objectives of the British Household Panel Study
