Carl R. May

Carl May (born 1960) is a British sociologist. He works in medical sociology and has a holistic approach to the relationship between medical sociology and Science and technology studies (STS). He is based at Newcastle University, where he is professor of medical sociology in the Institute of Health and Society [http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ihs/research/healthhuman/] .

His early work was associated with social constructionism and the social theory of Michel Foucault [May, C. 1992. "Individual care? Power and subjectivity in therapeutic relationships." Sociology 26:589-602.May, C. 1992. "Nursing Work, Nurses' Knowledge, and the Subjectification of the Patient." Sociology of Health and Illness 14:472-487] , but over the past decade it has become more focused on traditional sociological concerns, especially with interaction processes and the problem of how practices are embedded in their social contexts [, May, Carl (2007) "The clinical encounter and the problem of context." Sociology 41:29-45.] . Carl May’s work has explored the sociology of telemedicine [May, C. (2006) "Mobilizing modern facts: Health Technology Assessment and the politics of evidence." Sociology of Health & Illness 28:513-532.] [May, C, T Rapley, T Moreira, T Finch, and B Heaven. (2006) "Technogovernance: Evidence, subjectivity, and the clinical encounter in primary care medicine." Social Science & Medicine 62:1022-1030.] , and this led to the development of the normalization process model [May, Carl (2006). "A rational model for assessing and evaluating complex interventions in health care." BMC Health Services Research 6:1-11. [http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/6/86] ] [May, C et al (2007). "Understanding the implementation of complex interventions in health care: the normalization process model." BMC Health Services Research 7 [http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/7/148] ] for evaluating randomized controlled trials health technologies and complex interventions in health care.

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