Professor Webster received his B.Sc. in Social Sciences in 1974 at the Polytechnic of the South Bank, then earned his Ph.D. in the Sociology of Science at the University of York in 1981. He is currently Professor in the Sociology of Science and Technology, Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU), and Academic Coordinator for the Social Sciences at the University of York. Fro...

Editor – The perspective piece by Williams et al. on the contribution of social science to malaria control reveals the predicament of many social scientists working in public health (1). The authors correctly point out that social scientists want to adopt a theoretical and critical approach, but that such research would not be deemed useful for programmes. They have not found a way out of this ...

Medical sociology has a poor track record of researching diversity in theoretically innovative ways. This paper notes usage of the term superdiversity in migration and urban studies, to ask about its utility in general and more specifically for researching the social production of health and illness. Referring to a multi-country interview study about healthcare seeking strategies, the need to u...

1 Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 2 Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA 3 Department of Anthropology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK 4 Medical Genetics Department, University of California, San Diego, CA 92103, USA 5 Political Science Department, University of California, San Diego,...