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Adele E. Clarke
 Adele E. Clarke did her undergraduate work at Barnard College, a master’s in sociology at New York University, her PhD at UC San Francisco with Anselm Strauss, and a postdoc in organizations at Stanford with Richard Scott. She is currently Professor of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She has taught the qualitative research methods sequence of courses there since 1990, and published on qualitative research in German and English. Her work on situational analysis includes an article in Symbolic Interaction (2003) and her book Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn (Sage, 2005) which won the 2006 Charles Horton Cooley Award of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Her paper on “Feminisms, Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis” recently appeared in The Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis (Sage, 2006).

Dr. Clarke's research has centered on studies of science, technology and medicine with special emphasis on common medical technologies that affect most women's health such as contraception, the Pap smear, and RU486. Her major work has been on the formation of the American reproductive sciences in biology, medicine and agriculture including Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the `Problem of Sex' (University of California Press, 1998) which won the Eileen Basker Memorial Prizegiven by the Society for Medical Anthropology, and the Ludwig Fleck Award of the Society for Social Studies of Science. She also co-edited a volume focused on scientific practice titled The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth Century Life Sciences (Princeton University Press, 1992; Synthelabo Press in French/Paris, 1996). In women's health, Clarke has co-edited Women's Health: Complexities and Diversities (Ohio State University Press, 1997) and Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Cultural, Feminist and Technoscience Perspectives (Routledge Press, 1999).

Clarke’s current project is focused on biomedicalization—the expansion of biomedicine into increasing areas of life (human and nonuman) through implementing technoscientific innovations. With colleagues, she has published two papers, one in Sciences Sociales et Sante (2000, in French) and the other in the American Sociological Review (2003). Their edited volume of case studies, Biomedicalization: Technoscience and Transformations of Health and Illness in the U.S., is under contract with Duke University Press (anticipated early 2008). Her next project will center on global health.

You may view Dr. Clarke’s website at: http://www.ucsf.edu/medsoc/bios/aclarke.html

   

Carl Elliott
Carl Elliott is Professor in the Center for Bioethics and the Departments of Pediatrics and Philosophy. A native South Carolinian, Elliott was educated at Davidson College in North Carolina and at Glasgow University in Scotland, where he received his PhD in philosophy. He received his MD from the Medical University of South Carolina. Prior to his appointment at the University of Minnesota in 1997 he was on the faculty of McGill University in Montreal. He has held postdoctoral or visiting appointments at the University of Chicago, East Carolina University, the University of Otago (New Zealand) and the University of Natal Medical School (now the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine), the first medical school in South Africa for non-white students. In 2003-04 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he led a seminar on the social implications of bioethics.

Elliott’s current work on the intersection of medicine and the market is supported by a grant from the National Library of Medicine. His scholarly interests include the ethics of enhancement technologies, research ethics, the philosophy of psychiatry, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Walker Percy. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books, The Believer, The American Prospect and Dissent. He is the author or editor of six books, including A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture and Identity (Routledge, 1999) and Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream (Norton, 2003.)

You may view Dr. Elliott ’s website at: http://www.bioethics.umn.edu/faculty/elliott_c.html

 

Andrew Lakoff
Andrew Lakoff teaches Sociology and Science Studies at UC San Diego.  He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason:  Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (Cambridge, 2005) and co-editor of Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices (Duke, 2006).

You may view Dr. Lakoff 's website at:  http://sociology.ucsd.edu/faculty/Lakoff.htm

     

Michelle Murphy
Michelle Murphy's research interests include the history of sex, gender, race, environmental politics and technoscience in the United States and in transnational and postcolonial theoretical perspectives.  She is the author of Sick Building Syndrome and the Politics of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience and Women Workers (Duke University Press, 2006), which concerns the production of uncertainty in environmental politics, exploring this issue in the context of the emergence of new forms of racialized and gendered workplaces and new epistemological and political projects over the existence of pervasive chemical exposures in twentieth century United States.  She is presently finishing a book called Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Technology, Feminist Health Practice, and Biopolitics.  Her newest project concerns the history of late-twentieth century American imperial practices that linked fertility with capitalist development, with a particular focus on Bangladesh.   She is also editor of RaceSci, a website dedicated to the critical study of the concept of race in the history science, medicine, and technology (www.racesci.org).

You may view Dr. Murphy's website at: http://www.chass.toronto.edu/history/faculty/facultyprofiles/murphy.html

      

Keith Wailoo
Keith Wailoo is Martin Luther King Jr., Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he is jointly appointed in the Department of History and in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research.  He is also founding Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers – a center devoted to facilitating research and enriching education on matters of race and ethnicity in America.  Before joining Rutgers University in July 2001, he taught for nine years in History and in the Department of Social Medicine (in the Medical School) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 in the History and Sociology of Science, and he holds a Bachelors Degree from Yale University in Chemical Engineering (1984). 

Professor Wailoo is a leading expert on the history of disease, health, and medicine, having written several award-winning books and accepted prestigious awards for his work on such topics as sickle cell disease; race, science, and medicine; the history of technology and disease; and the problem of inequality in American health and medical care.  His award-winning books include: The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell Disease (coauthored with Stephen Pemberton) (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006); Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (University of North Carolina, 2001); and Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).
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You may view Dr. Wailoo's website at: http://history.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=190&Itemid=140

 

Elizabeth A. Wilson
Elizabeth Wilson holds a 5 year Australian Research Council Fellowship in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia.  She is trained in Psychology, and her research interests are in the cognitive and neurological sciences, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and evolutionary theory. She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition (Routledge, 1998) and  Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body (Duke University Press, 2004).  She is working on two projects (i) an examination of the role of affect in the early development of Artificial Intelligence and (ii) an analysis of depression from the perspective of feminist theories of embodiment.

You may view Dr. Wilson’s website at: http://english.arts.unsw.edu.au/engl/staff/wilson_e.html