Graham Scambler

Graham Scambler (born 1948) is a sociologist, specializing in medical sociology.

Life and work Scambler completed a B.Sc. in Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Surrey in 1971, followed by a Ph.D. in sociology (supervised by George Brown at Bedford College, University of London. His PhD thesis was on the stigma experienced by adults with epilepsy living in the community.

He was appointed Lecturer in Sociology at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1972–5. He then moved to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School from 1978 to 1987 which became part of University College London (UCL). He was appointed Professor of Medical Sociology at UCL in 2001. He retired from UCL in 2013. He is founding co-editor of the international journal Social Theory and Health.

Awards Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

Publications Patrick, D & Scambler, G (Eds) (1982). Sociology as applied to medicine. London: Bailliere Tindall/W.B.Saunders (6 editions) Fitzpatrick, R., Hinton, J., Newman, S., Scambler, G. & Thompson, J. (1984). The experience of illness. London: Tavistock. Scambler, G. (Ed)(1987). Sociological theory and medical sociology. London: Tavistock Scambler, G. (1989). Epilepsy. London: Tavistock Scambler, A. & Scambler, G. (1993). Menstrual disorders. London: Routledge. Scambler, G. & Scambler, A. (Eds.)(1997). Rethinking prostitution. London: Routledge Scambler, G. & Higgs, P. (Eds)(1998). Modernity, medicine and health. London: Routledge Scambler, G. (Ed)(2001). Habermas, critical theory and health. London: Routledge Scambler, G. (2002). Health and social change. Buckingham: Open University Press Scambler, G. (Ed)(2005). Medical sociology. London: Routledge. Scambler, G. & Scambler, S. (Eds.)(2010). New directions in the sociology of chronic and disabling conditions. London: Palgrave. Scambler, G. (Ed.)(2012). Contemporary theorists and medical sociology. London: Routledge. Aksei Tjora & Scambler, G. (eds.) Café Society w York : Palgrave Macmillan,