All Stories

  1. Mental health literacy in low- and middle-income countries

    Article • August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Brian Brown

  2. Resilience, mental health, and migration

    Article • August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Brian Brown

  3. Multiple Mental Health Literacies in a Traditional Temple Site in Kerala: The Intersection Between Beliefs, Spiritual and Healing Regimes

    Article • Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Brown

  4. Stigma and mental health problems in an Indian context. Perceptions of people with mental disorders in urban, rural and tribal areas of Kerala

    Article • International Journal of Social Psychiatry, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Brian Brown

  5. Imaginaries of patienthood: Constructions of HIV patients by HIV specialist health professionals

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, April 2022, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  6. Mainstreaming global mental health: Is there potential to embed psychosocial well‐being impact in all global challenges research?

    Article • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being, January 2022, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  7. Bringing the Two Cultures of the Arts and Sciences Together in Complex Health Interventions

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Brown

  8. ‘You’d think they’d know’: social epistemology and informal carers of mental health service users

    Article • Social Theory & Health, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Brown

  9. Idioms of resilience: Mental health and migration in India

    Article • International Journal of Social Psychiatry, August 2021, SAGE Publications

    Brian Brown

  10. Conflicting experiences of health and habitus in a poor urban neighbourhood: A Bourdieusian ethnography

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, March 2021, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  11. The Untold Story of Mental Health and Resilience of Internal Migrants in India

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Brown

  12. Intimate citizenship and mental ill health: Informal carers’ accounts of romantic relationship difficulties of people with mental health problems

    Article • Sexualities, September 2020, SAGE Publications

    Brian Brown

  13. Resilience, mental health and urban migrants: a narrative review

    Article • International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care, May 2020, Emerald

    Brian Brown

  14. A systematic review of applied theatre practice in the Indian context of mental health, resilience and wellbeing

    Article • Applied Theatre Research, December 2019, Intellect

    Brian Brown

  15. Mental health and the media: From illness to wellbeing

    Article • Sociology Compass, March 2019, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  16. Responsibilization and recovery: shifting responsibilities on the journey through mental health care to social engagement

    Article • Social Theory & Health, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Brown

  17. The social capitals of recovery in mental health

    Article • Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Brian Brown

  18. Genealogies of recovery: The framing of therapeutic ambitions

    Article • Nursing Philosophy, October 2017, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  19. Representations of mental health and arts participation in the national and local British press, 2007–2015

    Article • Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine, May 2017, SAGE Publications

    Brian Brown

  20. ‘Betwixt and between’; liminality in recovery stories from people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, February 2017, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  21. Mutuality in health care: review, concept analysis and ways forward

    Article • Journal of Clinical Nursing, March 2016, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  22. Towards a critical understanding of mutuality in mental healthcare: relationships, power and social capital

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, November 2015, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  23. Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, September 2015, Wiley

    Dr Warren Pearce, Brian Brown

  24. The role of noise in clinical environments with particular reference to mental health care: A narrative review

    Article • International Journal of Nursing Studies, September 2015, Elsevier

    Brian Brown

  25. ‘This wound has spoilt everything’: emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, November 2014, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  26. The design of compassionate care

    Article • Journal of Clinical Nursing, May 2014, Wiley

    Marit Kvangarsnes, Brian Brown

  27. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication

    Article • April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Brian Brown, CJ Koenig

  28. Suicide, Self-Harm and Survival Strategies in Contemporary Heavy Metal Music: A Cultural and Literary Analysis

    Article • Medical Humanities, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Brown

  29. Illuminating a Resilient Rural Culture in Twentieth CenturyY Fro GymraegUsing Bourdieu'sBearn

    Article • Sociologia Ruralis, November 2013, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  30. Practical compassions: repertoires of practice and compassion talk in acute mental healthcare

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, October 2013, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  31. Creative practice as mutual recovery in mental health

    Article • Mental Health Review Journal, June 2013, Emerald

    Brian Brown

  32. Patient narratives of surgical site infection: implications for practice

    Article • Journal of Hospital Infection, January 2013, Elsevier

    Brian Brown

  33. Health Communication and Psychological Distress: Exploring the Language of Self-harm

    Article • Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes, August 2012, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Brian Brown

  34. Madness and literature

    Article • Mental Health Review Journal, September 2011, Emerald

    Brian Brown

  35. Lives Beyond Suspicion: Gender and the Construction of Respectability in Mid-twentieth Century Rural North Wales

    Article • Sociologia Ruralis, August 2011, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  36. Mad Lit.: Introduction to a Special Issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities

    Article • Medical Humanities, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Brown

  37. Fast healthcare: Brief communication, traps and opportunities

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, January 2011, Elsevier

    Brian Brown

  38. Health humanities: the future of medical humanities?

    Article • Mental Health Review Journal, November 2010, Emerald

    Brian Brown

  39. Nutritional altruism and functional food: lay discourses on probiotics

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, April 2010, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  40. Madness in Post-1945 British and American Fiction

    Article • January 2010, Nature

    Brian Brown

  41. Theory and language of climate change communication

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, December 2009, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  42. Health, hygiene and biosecurity: Tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry

    Article • Health Risk & Society, November 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Brian Brown

  43. Mental health communication between service users and professionals: disseminating practice‐congruent research

    Article • Mental Health Review Journal, November 2009, Emerald

    Brian Brown

  44. The Ins and Outs of Biosecurity: Bird 'flu in East Anglia and the Spatial Representation of Risk

    Article • Sociologia Ruralis, October 2009, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  45. ‘Post antibiotic apocalypse’: discourses of mutation in narratives of MRSA

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, May 2009, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  46. An evaluation of a DVD trigger based assessment of communication and care delivery skills

    Article • Nurse Education Today, May 2009, Elsevier

    Brian Brown

  47. Harbingers of feminism? Gender, cultural capital and education in mid‐twentieth‐century rural Wales

    Article • Gender and Education, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Brian Brown

  48. Politeness strategies in question formulation in a UK telephone advisory service

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Brian Brown

  49. The Dead Parrot and the Dying Swan: The Role of Metaphor Scenarios in UK Press Coverage of Avian Flu in the UK in 2005–2006

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, October 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Brian Brown

  50. The habitus of hygiene: Discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, October 2008, Elsevier

    Brian Brown

  51. Education as an Exit Strategy for Community Mental Health Nurses: A Thematic Analysis of Narratives

    Article • Mental Health Review Journal, September 2008, Emerald

    Brian Brown

  52. Health communication and adolescents: what do their emails tell us?

    Article • Family Practice, August 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Brian Brown

  53. The ‘moral careers’ of microbes and the rise of the matrons: An analysis of UK national press coverage of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA) 1995–2006

    Article • Health Risk & Society, August 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Brian Brown

  54. Professional identity in community mental health nursing: A thematic analysis

    Article • International Journal of Nursing Studies, July 2008, Elsevier

    Brian Brown

  55. Soft authority: ecologies of infection management in the working lives of modern matrons and infection control staff

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, July 2008, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  56. Clinical Governmentality: A Critical Linguistic Perspective on Clinical Governance in Health Care Organizations

    Article • Journal of Applied Linguistics, February 2008, Equinox Publishing

    Brian Brown

  57. Habitus and Homeland: Educational Aspirations, Family Life and Culture in Autobiographical Narratives of Educational Experience in Rural Wales

    Article • Sociologia Ruralis, January 2008, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  58. ‘Am I normal?’ Teenagers, sexual health and the internet

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, August 2007, Elsevier

    Brian Brown

  59. Images of excellence: constructions of institutional prestige and reflections in the university choice process

    Article • British Journal of Sociology of Education, May 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Brian Brown

  60. Linguistic entrapment: medico-nursing biographies as fictions

    Article • Journal of Advanced Nursing, May 2006, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  61. Mental health and higher education: mapping field, consciousness and legitimation

    Article • Critical Social Policy, February 2006, SAGE Publications

    Brian Brown

  62. Making sense of invulnerability at work—a qualitative study of police drivers

    Article • Safety Science, December 2003, Elsevier

    Brian Brown

  63. Sacrificing the personal to the professional: community mental health nurses

    Article • Journal of Advanced Nursing, May 2003, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  64. The clinical governance of the soul: ‘deep management’ and the self-regulating subject in integrated community mental health teams

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, January 2003, Elsevier

    Brian Brown

  65. ‘Like a friend going round’: reducing the stigma attached to mental healthcare in rural communities

    Article • Health & Social Care in the Community, June 2002, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  66. Reluctant empiricists: community mental health nurses and the art of evidence-based praxis

    Article • Health & Social Care in the Community, June 2002, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  67. The language of mental health nursing reports: firing paper bullets?

    Article • Journal of Advanced Nursing, February 1999, Wiley

    Brian Brown

  68. Interaction, language and the “narrative turn” in psychotherapy and psychiatry

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 1996, Elsevier

    Brian Brown

  69. The Reproduction of Othering

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, November 1995, SAGE Publications

    Brian Brown

  70. Pleasures Untold: Heterosexuality, Power and Radicalism

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, May 1994, SAGE Publications

    Brian Brown

  71. Sex, Organs and Audiotape: A Discourse Analytic Approach to Talking about Heterosexual Sex and Relationships

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, June 1992, SAGE Publications

    Brian Brown

  72. Arresting knowledge: a response to the debate about TV and the Miners' Strike

    Article • Media Culture & Society, January 1988, SAGE Publications

    Brian Brown