All Stories

  1. A Racialized Capitalism Perspective on the Work and Employment of Black and Minoritized Ethnic Workers Living With Sickle Cell Disorder

    Article • Industrial Relations Journal, November 2025, Wiley

    Dr Maria Berghs

  2. Editorial: Voices from the frontline: the lived experiences of healthcare professionals in the workplace

    Article • Frontiers in Sociology, June 2025, Frontiers

    Dr Maria Berghs

  3. Is the workplace about to get better or worse for disabled people in the United Kingdom?

    Article • Disability & Society, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  4. Editorial: Intersections of ageing and disability during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Frontiers in Sociology, October 2024, Frontiers

    Dr Maria Berghs

  5. Bridging the Gap

    Article • March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  6. Sickle Cell Disease and Its Psychosocial Burdens in Africa

    Article • March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  7. Social Determinants of Severity in Sickle Cell Disease

    Article • March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  8. The Critical Importance of Global Collaboration in SCD Advocacy and Management

    Article • March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  9. The indignities of shielding during the COVID-19 pandemic for people with sickle cell disorders: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

    Article • Frontiers in Sociology, February 2024, Frontiers

    Dr Maria Berghs

  10. Philosophical and practical challenges of Ubuntu

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  11. Representing disabling experiences: Rethinking quality of life when evaluating public health interventions

    Article • Politics &amp Policy, January 2023, Wiley

    Dr Maria Berghs

  12. Social Science Research and Sickle Cell Disorders

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Berghs

  13. Social Science Research and Sickle Cell Disorders

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Berghs

  14. Black sickle cell patients’ lives matter: healthcare, long-term shielding and psychological distress during a racialised pandemic in England – a mixed-methods study

    Article • BMJ Open, September 2022, BMJ

    Dr Maria Berghs

  15. Repercussions of overturning Roe v. Wade for women across systems and beyond borders

    Article • Reproductive Health, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Berghs

  16. “I want to become someone!” gender, reproduction and the moral career of motherhood for women with sickle cell disorders

    Article • Culture Health & Sexuality, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  17. Let's Get Back to Normal? COVID-19 and the Logic of Cure

    Article • Frontiers in Sociology, April 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Maria Berghs

  18. An African Path to Disability Justice: Community, Relationships and Obligations

    Article • Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  19. 3. An African Ethics of Social Well-Being: Understanding Disability and Public Health

    Article • December 2021, De Gruyter

    Dr Maria Berghs

  20. "Let's get back to normal!" COVID-19 and the logic of cure

    Article • August 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Maria Berghs

  21. An African Ethics of Social Well-Being: Understanding Disability and Public Health

    Article • March 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Maria Berghs

  22. On the possibility of a disabled life in capitalist ruins: Black workers with sickle cell disorder in England

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Berghs

  23. Who Gets Cured? COVID-19 and Developing a Critical Medical Sociology and Anthropology of Cure

    Article • Frontiers in Sociology, January 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Maria Berghs

  24. ‘They Can Replace You at Any Time!’: (In)Visible Hyper-Ableism, Employment and Sickle Cell Disorders in England

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, January 2021, Stockholm University Press

    Dr Maria Berghs

  25. Biosocial Model of Disability

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Berghs

  26. Competing ethics in a pilot strategy to implement parasitology training and research in post-Ebola Sierra Leone

    Article • International Health, November 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Maria Berghs

  27. Intersectionality and employment in the United Kingdom: Where are all the Black disabled people?

    Article • Disability & Society, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  28. “You have to find a caring man, like your father!” gendering sickle cell and refashioning women's moral boundaries in Sierra Leone

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Berghs

  29. Time to apply a social determinants of health lens to addressing sickle cell disorders in sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • BMJ Global Health, July 2020, BMJ

    Dr Maria Berghs

  30. Biosocial Model of Disability

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Berghs

  31. Incidental Findings of Sickle Cell Trait From an Everyday Diabetes Test: Should General Health Care Providers and Testing Centers Report, Retest, or Refer?

    Article • Clinical Diabetes, December 2019, American Diabetes Association

    Dr Maria Berghs

  32. The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism

    Article • October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  33. Disability Futures

    Article • October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  34. Introducing Disability Activism

    Article • October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  35. Rights to social determinants of flourishing? A paradigm for disability and public health research and policy

    Article • BMC Public Health, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Berghs

  36. Do disabled people need a stronger social model: a social model of human rights?

    Article • Disability & Society, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karl Michael Atkin, Dr Maria Berghs

  37. Ethnicity, disability and chronic illness

    Article • April 2019, Policy Press

    Dr Maria Berghs

  38. Ethnicity, disability and chronic illness

    Article • April 2019, Policy Press

    Dr Maria Berghs

  39. Ethical (dis)enchantment, afflictive kinship, and Ebola exceptionalism

    Article • March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  40. Cash not care: the planned demolition of the UK welfare state

    Article • Self & Society, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  41. Public health, research and rights: the perspectives of deliberation panels with politically and socially active disabled people

    Article • Disability & Society, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  42. Practices and discourses of ubuntu: Implications for an African model of disability?

    Article • African Journal of Disability, January 2017, AOSIS Open Journals

    Dr Maria Berghs

  43. Practices and discourses of ubuntu: Implications for an African model of disability?

    Article • African Journal of Disability, January 2017, AOSIS Open Journals

    Dr Maria Berghs

  44. Emancipatory Engagement and Co-Production: Disability Research for Activism

    Article • January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maria Berghs

  45. Resignifying the sickle cell gene: Narratives of genetic risk, impairment and repair

    Article • Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maria Berghs

  46. Implications for public health research of models and theories of disability: a scoping study and evidence synthesis

    Article • Public Health Research, July 2016, National Institute for Health Research

    Dr Maria Berghs

  47. SITES OF EXCEPTION. HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone. By Adia Benton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 176. $79, hardback (ISBN 9780816692422); $22.50, paperback (ISBN 9780816692439).

    Article • The Journal of African History, June 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Maria Berghs

  48. The New Humanitarianism

    Article • May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  49. Neoliberal policy, chronic corruption and disablement: biosecurity, biosocial risks and the creation of ‘Ebola survivors’?

    Article • Disability & Society, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  50. War and Embodied Memory

    Article • February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  51. Disabled People in Conflicts and Wars

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Berghs

  52. Book Review of Disability Research Today: International Perspectives

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, July 2015, Wiley

    Dr Maria Berghs

  53. Radicalising Disability

    Article • Disability & Society, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  54. ‘Who's the guy in the room?’ Involving fathers in antenatal care screening for sickle cell disorders

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Berghs

  55. Fathers and Sickle Cell Screening

    Article • Sociology, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maria Berghs, Professor Simon M Dyson

  56. Gun violence

    Article • Disability & Society, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  57. Native American communities on health and disability: borderland dialogues

    Article • Disability & Society, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  58. Mixed-Methods Approaches in a Post-Conflict Ethnographic Case Study with War-Wounded People

    Article • January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maria Berghs

  59. Limitations of Individualistic Peacebuilding in Postwar Sierra Leone

    Article • African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, April 2012, Indiana University Press

    Dr Maria Berghs

  60. A Comparative Analysis: Everyday Experiences of Disability in Sierra Leone

    Article • Africa Today, December 2011, Indiana University Press

    Dr Maria Berghs

  61. Paying for stories of impairment – parasitic or ethical? Reflections undertaking anthropological research in post-conflict Sierra Leone

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, November 2011, Stockholm University Press

    Dr Maria Berghs

  62. Review of Barron and Ncube, Poverty and Disability

    Article • Disability Studies Quarterly, October 2011, The Ohio State University Libraries

    Dr Maria Berghs

  63. Emotion and Embodiment in Sierra Leone

    Article • Third World Quarterly, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  64. Coming to terms with inequality and exploitation in an African state: researching disability in Sierra Leone

    Article • Disability & Society, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  65. Book reviews

    Article • Disability & Society, October 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Berghs

  66. Practices of responsibility and nurses during the euthanasia programs of Nazi Germany: A discussion paper

    Article • International Journal of Nursing Studies, July 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Berghs

  67. Nursing, obedience, and complicity with eugenics: a contextual interpretation of nursing morality at the turn of the twentieth century

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, February 2006, BMJ

    Dr Maria Berghs

  68. The complexity of nurses' attitudes toward euthanasia: a review of the literature

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, August 2005, BMJ

    Dr Maria Berghs