By Dr Katherine Elizabeth Kenny

Books

Broom A; Kenny K, 2020, Survivorship: A Sociology of Cancer in Everyday Life, Routledge, London and New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351118545

Book Chapters

Broom A; Ehlers N; Byrne H; Veazey LW; Kenny K, 2026, 'The Good Death', in Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Death, pp. 29 - 40

Kenny K; Harrison M; Smith A, 2025, 'Introduction', in Kenny K; Harrison M; Smith A (ed.), Timescapes of Health, Illness and Care, Palgrave Macmillan, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-7055-0_1

Tien J; Pala R; Kenny K; Broom A, 2025, 'Troubling Time in the Face of Life-Limiting Illness', in Timescapes of Health Illness and Care, pp. 323 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-7055-0_14

Broom A; Kenny K; Germov J, 2018, 'Global Public Health', in Germov J (ed.), Second Opinion: An introduction to health sociology, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/second-opinion-9780190306489?cc=au&lang=en&

Broom A; Kenny K, 2018, 'The sociology of complementary and alternative medicine', in Germov J (ed.), Second Opinion: An introduction to health sociology, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, https://www.oup.com.au/books/higher-education/health,-nursing-and-social-work/9780190306489-second-opinion

Kenny KE, 2017, 'From "Health for All" to "Health as Investment": The Role of Economic Rationalities in the Transition from International to Global Health 1978–2013', in Bek-Thomsen J; Christiansen C; Jacobsen S; Thorup M (ed.), History of Economic Rationality, Springer International, pp. 121 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52815-1_13

Edited Books

Kenny K; Harrison M; Smith AKJ, (eds.), 2025, Timescapes of Health, Illness and Care, Palgrave Macmillan, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-7055-0

Journal articles

Broom A; Byrne H; Ehlers N; Kenny K; Williams-Veazey L; Good P, 2026, 'Accounting for Death: Economising (the End of) Life', Sociology, 60, pp. 952 - 969, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380385261416276

Tien J; Kenny K, 2026, 'A hydrological breakdown of containment logics: Toxic exposures, pollution, and waste in the waterways of settler-colonial Australia', Environment and Planning E Nature and Space, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25148486261438989

Lewis S; Franklin M; Newton G; Kenny K; Boyle F; Smith A, 2026, 'Buying Time: Incurable Prognosis, Temporal Uncertainty and the Costs of Metastatic Breast Cancer', Sociology of Health and Illness, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70134

Kenny K; Broom A; Williams Veazey L; Harper I; Tien J; Pala R, 2026, 'Precarious living in the age of precision medicine: The impasse of chronic malignancy', Sociology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380385261434892

Bennett J; Broom A; Kenny K; Sholl J; Raubenheimer D, 2026, 'System-practice entanglements and the harms of Ultra-Processed Foods', Food Culture and Society, 29, pp. 164 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2025.2474269

Harper I; Broom A; Kenny K, 2026, 'Unpacking the Assumptions, Oversights and Consequences that Surround Young People’s Difficulties in Accessing Chronic Illness Diagnosis and Care', Journal of Applied Youth Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43151-026-00216-2

Tien J; Kenny K; Broom A; Bartlett S, 2025, 'Speculative Frontiers of Technoscience and Innovation: Academic Scientists’ Engagement with Promissory and Emerging Technologies in Everyday Practice', Bulletin of Science Technology and Society, 45, pp. 102 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02704676251401449

Chandra S; Broom A; Peterie M; Ridge D; Kenny K; Lafferty L; Treloar C; Applegate T; Broom J, 2025, 'Emerging Dilemmas in the Age of Resistance: The Case of Sexually Transmitted Infections', Qualitative Health Research, 35, pp. 1437 - 1449, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323241302668

Harper I; Broom A; Kenny K, 2025, 'Chronic Concealment and Awareness in the Affective Worlds of Young People Living With Chronic Illness', Qualitative Health Research, 35, pp. 1283 - 1296, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323241304571

Kenny K; Broom A; Peterie M; Bennett J; Broom J, 2025, 'Cultures of Activity, Cultivating Resistance', Qualitative Health Research, 35, pp. 980 - 991, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323241271915

Tien J; Kenny K; Broom A; Motion A; Bartlett S, 2025, 'Ensuring Responsible Nanotechnology Innovation', Nanoethics, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11569-025-00478-9

Chandra S; Broom A; Ridge D; Kenny K; Peterie M; Broom J; Haire B; Lafferty L; Treloar C; Raymond S; Bradshaw C; Applegate T; Guy R, 2025, 'GBTQ+ safe sex entanglements: Finding the bacterial in the age of resistant STIs and prevention innovation', Social Science and Medicine, 379, pp. 118162 - 118162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118162

da Silva-Brandão RR; Kenny K; Peterie M; Broom A, 2025, 'Brazilian healthcare bureaucracies and the production of antimicrobial resistance', Ssm Health Systems, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmhs.2025.100060

Broom A; Kenny K; Ehlers N; Byrne H; Good P, 2025, 'Dying as a Collective Encounter: Relationality and Affect at the End of Life', Sociology of Health and Illness, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70046

Broom A; Kenny K; Ehlers N; Byrne H; Good P, 2025, 'Tensions of time at the end (of life)', Social Science and Medicine, 372, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117995

Kenny K; Broom A; Williams Veazey L; Broom J, 2025, 'The (Anti)Microbial Gaze: Surveillance Meets Resistance', Science Technology and Human Values, 50, pp. 614 - 641, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01622439241311309

Ehlers N; Broom A; Kenny K, 2025, 'Living and Dying in Shadow Times', Sociology, 59, pp. 216 - 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380385241275235

Williams Veazey L; Kenny K; Broom A, 2025, '‘It's very hard to have a future when you can’t travel’: Meaning, mobility and mortality after a cancer diagnosis', Journal of Sociology, 61, pp. 20 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14407833241251496

Kenny K; Williams Veazey L; Peterie M; Broom A; Prainsack B, 2025, 'Future/tense: A sociology of temporal dis/order', Journal of Sociology, 61, pp. 3 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14407833241310561

Harper I; Kenny K; Broom A, 2025, 'Navigating the Limits of Diagnosis: Young Adults' Experiences of Chronic Living', Sociology of Health and Illness, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13861

Harper I; Kenny K; Broom A, 2025, 'Growing up, ill: the challenges of youth for young people living with chronic illness', Journal of Youth Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2025.2578623

Pala R; Kenny K, 2025, 'Nurturing futures through the maternal microbiome', Sociology of Health and Illness, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13828

Chandra S; Broom A; Ridge D; Peterie M; Lafferty L; Broom J; Kenny K; Treloar C; Applegate T, 2025, 'Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance', Sociology of Health and Illness, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13832

Tien J; Kenny K; Broom A, 2024, 'Lung cancer after the genomic turn: From the biopolitics of ‘lifestyle’ to the transcorporeality of breath', Sociological Review, 72, pp. 1373 - 1392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261241279641

Broom J; Broom A; Kenny K; Konecny P; Post JJ, 2024, 'Regulating antimicrobial use within hospitals: A qualitative study', Infection Disease and Health, 29, pp. 81 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2023.12.001

Lewis S; Newton G; Kenny K; Boyle F, 2024, 'The incurable self: Negotiating social bonds and dis/connection with metastatic breast cancer', Sociology of Health and Illness, 46, pp. 295 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13704

Broom A; Peterie M; Ridge D; Lafferty L; Kenny K; Broom J; Kelly-Hanku A; Treloar C; Applegate T, 2023, 'Sex, drugs and superbugs: The rise of drug resistant STIs', Ssm Qualitative Research in Health, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100310

Broom J; Broom A; Kenny K; Konecny P; J. Post J, 2023, 'Multidisciplinary team meetings in prosthetic joint infection management: A qualitative study', Infection Disease and Health, 28, pp. 145 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2023.01.002

Kenny K; Williams Veazey L; Broom A; Peterie M; Page A; Prainsack B; Wakefield CE; Itchins M; Khasraw M; Lwin Z, 2023, 'Hope in the era of precision oncology: a qualitative study of informal caregivers' experiences', BMJ Open, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065753

Broom A; Veazey LW; Kenny K; Harper I; Peterie M; Page A; Cort N; Durling J; Lipp ES; Tan AC; Walsh KM; Hanks BA; Johnson M; Van Swearingen AED; Anders CK; Ashley DM; Khasraw M, 2023, 'The Enduring Effects of COVID for Cancer Care: Learning from Real-Life Clinical Practice', Clinical Cancer Research, 29, pp. 1670 - 1677, http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-23-0151

Broom A; Peterie M; Kenny K; Ramia G; Ehlers N, 2023, 'The administration of harm: From unintended consequences to harm by design', Critical Social Policy, 43, pp. 51 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02610183221087333

Peterie M; Broom A; Kenny K; Broom J; Regan D; Lafferty L; Kelly-Hanku A; Treloar C, 2023, 'Economies of resistance', Critical Public Health, 33, pp. 763 - 775, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2023.2271140

Broom A; Peterie M; Kenny K; Broom J; Kelly-Hanku A; Lafferty L; Treloar C; Applegate T, 2023, 'Vulnerability and antimicrobial resistance', Critical Public Health, 33, pp. 308 - 317, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2022.2123733

Ehlers N, 2023, 'Racial Biofutures: COVID-19 and Black Futurity Otherwise', Sociology, 57, pp. 334 - 347, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380385221137551

Broom A; Kenny K; Williams Veazey L; Page A; Prainsack B; Wakefield CE; Khasraw M; Itchins M; Lwin Z, 2022, 'Living (well) with cancer in the precision era', Ssm Qualitative Research in Health, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100096

Williams Veazey L; Broom A; Kenny K; Degeling C; Wyer M; Hor S; Broom J; Burns P; Gilbert GL, 2022, 'Paradoxes of pandemic infection control: Proximity, pace and care within and beyond SARS-CoV-2', Ssm Qualitative Research in Health, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100110

Page A; Broom A; Kenny K; Lwin Z; Wakefield CE; Itchins M; Khasraw M, 2022, 'Experiencing the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Whilst Living With Cancer', Qualitative Health Research, 32, pp. 426 - 439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323211057082

Kirby E; Kenny K; Broom A; Lwin Z, 2022, 'Chronicity in/and cancer: a qualitative interview study of health professionals, patients, and family carers', Critical Public Health, 32, pp. 472 - 484, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2022.2035319

Ehlers N; Krupar S, 2022, 'Abject Ontologies: Cancer and ‘Living On’', Journal of Medical Humanities, 43, pp. 455 - 466, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10912-021-09711-4

Broom J; Broom A; Kenny K; Post JJ; Konecny P, 2021, 'Institutional governance and responsiveness to antimicrobial resistance: A qualitative study of Australian hospital executives', BMJ Open, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055215

Tichenor M; Winters J; Storeng KT; Bump J; Gaudillière JP; Gorsky M; Hellowell M; Kadama P; Kenny K; Shawar YR; Songane F; Walker A; Whitacre R; Asthana S; Fernandes G; Stein F; Sridhar D, 2021, 'Interrogating the World Bank’s role in global health knowledge production, governance, and finance', Globalization and Health, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00761-w

Kenny K; Broom A; Page A; Prainsack B; Wakefield CE; Itchins M; Lwin Z; Khasraw M, 2021, 'A sociology of precision-in-practice: The affective and temporal complexities of everyday clinical care', Sociology of Health and Illness, 43, pp. 2178 - 2195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13389

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