Professor Carol Thomas

Professor of Sociology

Selected Publications

Books

Watson, N., Roulestone, A. and Thomas, C. (eds) (2012) Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies. London: Routledge

Thomas, C. (2007) Sociologies of Disability and Illness. Contested Ideas in Disability Studies and Medical Sociology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Swain, J., Barnes, C., French, S. and Thomas, C. (eds) (2004) Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments (2nd edition). London: Sage [3rd Edition in preparation].

Thomas C. (1999) Female Forms: Experiencing and Understanding Disability. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Articles (selection from 2004)

Thomas, C. (2012) Theorising Disability and Chronic Illness: Where Next for Perspectives in Medical Sociology? Social Theory and Health. 10(3):209-227.

Thomas, C. (2011) Disability and the death and dying agenda. In B. Monroe, D. Oliviere and S. Payne (eds) Death, Dying and Social Differences. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 85-101.

Thomas, C. (2011) Disability: Prospects For Social Inclusion. In A. Walker, A. Sinfield and C. Walker (eds) Fighting poverty, inequality and injustice: A manifesto inspired by Peter Townsend. Policy Press: Cambridge. pp.223-240.

Grinyer, A. and Thomas, C. (2011) The Value of Interviewing on Multiple Occasions or Longitudinally. J.F. Gubrium and J.A. Holstein (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research. 2nd Edition. London: Sage. pp. 219-230.

Thomas, C. (2010) Negotiating the contested terrain of narrative methods in illness contexts. Sociology of Health and Illness 32 (4): 647-660.

See also Responses to Carol Thomas’s paper on narrative methods SHI 32 (4)

• The contested terrain of narrative analysis - an appreciative response (p 661-662)
  Paul Atkinson
• Resisting the mystification of narrative inquiry: unmasking the real conflict between story analysts and storytellers (p 662-665)
  Arthur P. Bochner
• In defence of narrative exceptionalism (p 665-667)
  Arthur W. Frank

Thomas, C. (2010) Medical Sociology and Disability Theory. In G. Scambler and S. Scambler (eds) New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions: Assaults on the Lifeworld. Palgrave Macmillan. pp.37-56.

Thomas, C., Reeve, J., Bingley, A., Brown, J., Payne, S., and Lynch, T. (2009) Narrative research methods in palliative care contexts: two case studies. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 37(5): 788-796. ISSN: 0885-3924.

Thomas, C. (2008) ‘Disability: getting it "right" ’. Symposium paper on T. Shakespeare’s book: Disability Rights and Wrongs. Journal of Medical Ethics, 34: 15-17.

Thomas, C. (2008) Cancer narratives and methodological uncertainties. Qualitative Research, 8 (3): 423-433.

Thomas, C. (2008) Dying. Places and Preferences. In Payne, S., Seymour, J. and Ingleton, C. (eds) Palliative Care Nursing: Principles and Evidence for Practice. 2nd edition. Berkshire: Open University Press / McGraw-Hill Education. (pp. 91-105).

Thomas, C. (2006) Disability and Gender: Some Reflections on Theory and Research. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 8 (2-3), 177-185.

Thomas, C. (2005) The Place of Death of Cancer Patients: Can Qualitative Data Add to Known Factors? Social Science and Medicine, 60(11): 2597-2607.

Thomas, C. (2005) Place of death: exploring preferences. Cancer Nursing Practice, 4 (6): 17-20.

Morris S.M. and Thomas, C. (2005) Placing the Dying Body: Emotional, Situational and Embodied Factors in Preferences for Place of Final Care and Death in Cancer. In J. Davidson, L. Bondi and M. Smith (eds) Emotional Geographies. Aldershot: Ashgate. (pp 19-31).

Thomas, C. (2004) The UK Social Model of Disability: Rescuing a Social Relational Understanding of Disability. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 6(1): 22-36.

Thomas, C. (2004) How is disability understood? An examination of sociological approaches. Disability and Society, 19 (6): 569-583.

Grinyer, A. and Thomas, C. (2004) The importance of place of death in young adults with terminal cancer. Mortality, 9(2): 114-131.

Thomas C., Morris S.M. and Clark, D. (2004) Place of death: preferences among cancer patients and their carers. Social Science and Medicine 58(12): 2431-2444.

Thomas, C. (2004) Disability and Impairment. In J. Swain, C. Barnes, S. French and C. Thomas (eds) Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments (2nd edition). London: Sage (pp. 21-27)

Thomas, C. (2004) Developing the social relational in the social model of disability: a theoretical agenda. In C. Barnes and G. Mercer (eds) Implementing The Social Model of Disability: Theory and Research. Leeds: The Disability Press. (pp. 32-47).