MY WORK

Books, Research & Publications

A select record of Juanne's published work — books, chapters, journal articles, and beyond.

PUBLISHED BOOKS

Juanne has published a variety of books and textbooks, primarily analyzing medicine, medicalization, illness, and the social forces that shape health across the lifespan.

TEXTBOOKS


  • 2026. Health, illness and medicine in Canada (9th ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press.
  • 2020. Health, illness and medicine in Canada (8th ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press.
  • 2016. Health, illness and medicine in Canada (7th ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press. 
  • 2013. Health, illness and medicine in Canada (6th ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • 2008. Health, illness and medicine in Canada (5th ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press.
  • 2004. Health, illness and medicine in Canada (4th ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press. 
  • 2000. Health, illness and medicine in Canada (3rd ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press. 
  • 1996. Health, illness and medicine in Canada (2nd ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press. 
  • 1994. Sociology. Canadian Edition. Toronto: Prentice-Hall. (With John J. Macionis and Linda J. Gerber). 
  • 1990. Health, illness and medicine in Canada (1st ed.). Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. 

NON-FICTION


  • 2005. Finding strength: A mother and daughter’s story of childhood cancer. Japanese Edition. 
  • 1999. Finding strength: A mother and daughter’s story of childhood cancer. Toronto: Oxford University Press. (With Lauren Nancarrow Clarke). 


CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Juanne has also collaborated with other authors and editors to produce various books and textbooks. Below is a select list of the books she has contributed chapters or sections to within the Health Studies, Communications, and Sociology fields.

CHAPTERS IN TEXTBOOKS & READERS


  • 2016. The uses of biological sciences to justify the risks of children’s mental health and developmental disorders in North American news magazines: 1990–2012. In J. Crichton, C.N. Candlin, & A.S. Firkins (Eds.), Communicating risk (267-284). United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 
  • 2015. Medical error and patient advocacy. In A. Surbone & M. Rowe (Eds.), Clinical oncology and error reduction (156-171). West Sussex, UK: Wiley Blackwell. 
  • 2015. Women’s work, worry and fear: The portrayal of sexuality and sexual health in US magazines for teenage and middle-aged women, 2000–2007. In R. Parker & P. Aggleton (Eds), Culture health & sexuality: A reader (2nd ed.) (23-36). London: Routledge. 
  • 2012. Health Issues. In L. Tepperman & J. Curtis (eds.) Sociology: A Canadian perspective (3rd edition) (250-274). Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press. 
  • 2008. Health issues. In L. Tepperman, & J. Curtis (Eds.) Sociology: A Canadian perspective (pp. 250-274). Toronto: Oxford University Press. 
  • 2006. Health Issues. In L. Tepperman, & J. Curtis (Eds.) Sociology: A Canadian Perspective (pp. 250-274). Toronto: Oxford University Press. 
  • 2005. Parents as advocates: Stories of surplus suffering when a child is diagnosed and treated for cancer. In A. Meterri et al. (Eds.), Social work visions from around the globe: Citizens, methods, and approaches (pp. 107-128). Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Social Work Practice Press. 
  • 2004. Health Issues. In L. Tepperman, & J. Curtis (Eds.), Sociology: A Canadian perspective (pp. 252- 273). Toronto: Oxford University Press.

CHAPTERS IN NON-FICTION BOOKS


  • 2000. Using the Internet for information, support and advocacy. In P. Kelly (Ed.), A guide for cancer self-help groups leadership from the heart (pp. 139-142). Toronto: Key Porter Books.


PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS ARTICLES

Over the course of her career, Juanne has written over 80 articles for peer-reviewed journals such as Health, Risk & Society, Child & Family Social Work, Ethnicity & Health, and Children & Society. This is not a complete list of all journal articles published. Only the most recent articles have been included.

PRINT MEDIA ANALYSES


  • Clarke, J.N. (2017). A study of the portrayal of bullying in magazines for parents: It is everywhere and it is growing. Children & Society.
  • Clarke, J. N. (2017). Bullying in news magazines in Canada and the US: growing up is a risky and dangerous business. Journal of Children and Media: 1-15. 
  • Clarke, J. N. (2016). The portrayal of children's mental health and developmental issues from 1890 to 1920 in mass print magazines in North America. Children & Society, 30(1): 36-47. 
  • Clarke, J. N. (2016). The underside of medicalisation: the portrayal of medical error over time in North American popular mass magazines. Health, Risk & Society, 18(5-6): 270-282. 
  • Clarke, J. N., & Miele, R. (2016). Trapped by gender: The paradoxical portrayal of gender and mental illness in Anglophone North American magazines: 1983-2012. Women's Studies International Forum, 56: 1 - 8. 
  • Sawchuk, D., & Clarke, J. (2015). Representations of autism and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the North American Roman Catholic print media, 1990–2013. Journal of Disability & Religion, 19(2): 146-167. 
  • Clarke, J. N. (2015). Advice to mothers about managing children's behaviours in Canada's premier woman's magazine: A comparison of 1945–1956 with 1990–2010. Child & Family Social Work, 20(3): 310-321.
  • Clarke, J. & Mosleh, D. (2015). Risk and the Black American child: representations of children’s mental health issues in three popular African American magazines. Health, Risk & Society, 17(1): 1-14. 
  • Clarke, J. (2014). Tracking governance: advice to mothers about managing the behaviour of their children in a leading Canadian women’s magazine during two disease regimes. Critical Public Health, 24(3): 253-265.
  • Clarke, J.N., Mosleh, D. & Janketic, N. (2014). Discourses about children’s mental health and developmental disorders in North American women’s magazines, 1990-2012. Child & Family Social Work. 
  • Miele, R. & Clarke, J. (2014). We remain very much the second sex: The constructions of prostate cancer in popular news magazines, 2000-2010. American Journal of Men’s Health, 8(1): 15-25.
  • Clarke, J. (2013). Medicalisation and changes in advice to mothers about children's mental health issues 1970 to 1990 as compared to 1991 to 2010: evidence from Chatelaine magazine. Health, Risk & Society, 15(5): 416-431. 
  • McWhirter, J., Hoffman Goetz, L., & Clarke, J. N. (2012). Can you see what they are saying: Breast cancer Images and texts in Canadian Women’s fashion magazines. Journal of Cancer Education, 27(2): 383-391. 


ONLINE MEDIA ANALYSES


  • Clarke, J. N., & Van Ameron, G. (2015). Parents whose children have oppositional defiant disorder talk to one another on the internet. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 32(4): 341-350. 
  • Clarke, J. N. (2012). Mothers whose children Have ADD/ADHD discuss their medication use: an investigation of blogs. Social Work in Health Care, 51(5): 402-416. 


INTERVIEW-BASED STUDIES


  • Clarke, J. N. (2013) Surplus suffering: The search for help when a child has mental health issues. February. Child and Family Social Work, 213(18): 117-125. 
  • Clarke. J. N. (2012). Surplus suffering, mothers don’t know best: Denial of mothers’ reality when parenting a child with mental health issues. Journal of Child Health Care, 16(4): 355-366. 


MIXED METHODOLOGY STUDIES


  • James, S., Harris, S., Foster, G., Clarke, J., Gadermann, A., Morrison, M., & Bezanson, B. J. (2013). Revisioning clinical psychology: integrating cultural psychology into clinical research and practice with Portuguese immigrants. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. 


OTHER

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS


  • 2013. Surplus suffering. Pediatrics for Parents , http://www.pedsforparents.com/general/102588/surplus-suffering/


REPORTS

  • 2003. Report to the National Cancer Forum .

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