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Carter, Simon; Speed, Ewen and Green, Judith (2018). Digital technologies and the biomedicalisation of everyday activities: the case of walking and cycling. Sociology Compass, 12(4), article no. e12572.

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Carter, Simon (2018). The Mercy: Mental Health, Seafaring and Mythical Voyages. Cost of Living Blog.

Carter, Simon (2017). The Doctors’ Trial: 70 years on from the Nuremberg Code. Cost of Living Blog.

Carter, Simon (2017). Forensic Architecture and Violence. Cost of Living Blog.

Carter, Simon (2016). Three Weeks in June and One Night in November. Cost of Living Blog.

Carter, Simon (2016). ‘Narcos’ and the ‘War on Drugs’. In Cost of Living Blog Cost of Living.

Carter, Simon (2016). Scientists (mis)understanding the public(s), again! Cost of Living Blog.

Carter, Simon (2015). Watching the Detectives: Epigenetics and Ethics. Cost of Living Blog.

Carter, Simon (2015). Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology. Cost of Living Blog.

Carter, Simon (2015). We are all Dr Strangelove now. Cost of Living Blog, UK.

Carter, Simon (2014). Abandoned but not forgotten: hospitals, decay and urban exploration. Cost of Living Blog.

Carter, Simon (2014). Lazing on a sunny afternoon? A historical perspective on risk and sunlight. Cost of Living Blog.

Carter, Simon (2014). ‘BREAKING BAD’: markets, healthcare and drug money. Cost of Living Blog.

Carter, Simon; Green, Judith and Thorogood, Nicki (2013). The domestication of an everyday health technology: a case study of electric toothbrushes. Social Theory and Health, 11 pp. 344–367.

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Carter, Simon (2012). Leagues of sunshine: sunlight, health and the environment. In: Gorsky, Martin and Berridge, Virgina eds. Environment Health and History. London: Palgrave, pp. 94–112.

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Carter, Simon (2012). The medicalization of sunlight in the early twentieth century. Journal of Historical Sociology, 25(1) pp. 83–105.

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Carter, Simon (2009). Michael Marmot: facts, opinions and affairs du coeur. International Journal of Epidemiology, 38(4) pp. 914–916.

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Carter, Simon and Davey Smith, George (2008). Health and security. In: Carter, Simon; Jordan, Timothy and Watson, Sophie eds. Security: Sociology and social worlds. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, pp. 145–178.

Carter, Simon (2007). Rise and Shine: Sunlight, Technology and Health. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers Ltd.

Carter, Simon and Michael, Mike (2003). Here comes the sun: shedding light on the cultural body. In: Thomas, Helen and Ahmed, Jamilah eds. Cultural bodies: ethnography and theory. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, pp. 260–282.

Carter, Simon and Michael, Mike (2003). Signifying across time and space: a case study of biomedical educational texts. Sociology of Health and Illness, 25(2) pp. 232–259.

Hinchliffe, Steve; Bingham, Nick; Allen, John and Carter, Simon (2016). Pathological Lives: Disease, Space and Biopolitics. RGS-IBG Book Series. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.

Henderson, Lesley and Carter, Simon (2016). Doctors in space (ships): biomedical uncertainties and medical authority in imagined futures. Medical Humanities, 42(4) pp. 277–282.

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Hinchliffe, Steve; Allen, John; Lavau, Stephanie; Bingham, Nick and Carter, Simon (2013). Biosecurity and the topologies of infected life: from borderlines to borderlands. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(4) pp. 531–543.

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Michael, Mike and Carter, Simon (2001). The facts about fictions and vice versa: public understanding of human genetics. Science as Culture, 10(1) pp. 5–32.

Perriam, Jessamy and Carter, Simon eds. (2021). Understanding Digital Societies. London: Sage & The Open University.

Raine, Rosalind; Carter, Simon; Sensky, Tom and Black, Nick (2004). General practitioners' perceptions of chronic fatigue syndrome and beliefs about its management, compared with irritable bowel syndrome: qualitative study. British Medical Journal, 328 pp. 1354–1357.

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Raine, Rosalind; Sanderson, Colin; Hutchings, Andrew; Carter, Simon; Larkin, Kirsten and Black, Nick (2004). An experimental study of determinants of group judgments in clinical guideline development. The Lancet, 364(9432) pp. 429–437.

Speed, Ewen; Carter, Simon and Green, Judith (2022). [Editorial] Pandemics, infection control and social justice: challenges for policy evaluation. Critical Public Health, 32(1) pp. 44–47.