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Adele E. Clarke, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology and
Adjunct Professor of History of Health Sciences
Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences
3333 California St., #LHts-455
San Francisco, CA 94143-0612
Telephone: 415 476-0694 Fax: 415-476-6552
Email: adele.clarke@ucsf.edu
My primary research and creative areas are historical and contemporary sociology of biomedical sciences and technologies, the development of qualitative research methodologies, and women's health. I have recently initiated a new project on the history of globalization focused on how "things medical" travel.
2000
Member of Organizing Group and Contributor. Conference (in Paris) and Special Issue on Innovation in Biomedicine of Sciences Sociales et Sante
2001
Co-Organizer, Stream of 14 Sessions on "Race and Other Inequalities in/and Science, Technology, and Medicine," Society for Social Studies of Science, Cambridge, MA
2001
Co-Organizer, Stream of 4 Sessions on "STS and Comparative Social Movements in Health." Society for Social Studies of Science meetings, Cambridge, MA
2002
Organizer, Special Session on "(Bio)Medicalization Theory Revisited," American Sociological Association meetings, Chicago
2006-2008
Co-Editor, Special Issue on Reproduction Studies. East Asian Science and Technology Studies Journal
2006-now: East Asian Science and Technology Studies Journal (EASTS), Western Editorial Board
2006-now: Symbolic Interaction, Advisory Board
2003-2005: Sexuality Research & Social Policy/NSRC International, Editorial Board
1993-2003: Science, Technology and Human Values, Contributing Editor
1987-now: Social Studies of Science, Editorial Advisor
S212C Symbolic Interactionism and Poststructuralisms
S245 Gender, Race, Postcoloniality & Technoscience
S282 Science, Technology and Medicine Studies
S285A Qualitative Research
S285B Qualitative Analysis
S286 Gender and Health
1999 Eileen Basker Distinguished Book Award for Disciplining Reproduction from the Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
2000 Ludwik Fleck Award for Outstanding Book for 2000, Society for Social Studies of Science
2000 UCSF Woman of Distinction, Center for Gender Equity
2001 UCSF Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women Celebrated Faculty
2002 Faculty Mentor of the Year, Doctoral Students, School of Nursing, UCSF
2002 Feminist Mentor Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
2005 Residential Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference and Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
2006 Charles Horton Cooley Distinguished Book Award for Situational Analysis from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Barnard College, New York, NY; A.B. Sociology
New York University, NY; M.A. Sociology
U.C., San Francisco, CA; Ph.D. Sociology
Stanford University; NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow; Sociology
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Books
Adele E. Clarke, Janet Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Fosket, and Jennifer Fishman (Eds.) 2008 (forthcoming). Biomedicalization: Technoscience and Transformations of Health and Illness in the US. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Adele E. Clarke. 2005. Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
**2006 Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen (Eds.) 1999. Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives. New York: Routledge. Clarke and Olesen: "Introduction: Revising, Diffracting, Acting"
Adele E. Clarke. 1998. Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences and the 'Problems of Sex.' Berkeley: University of California Press. 444 pp.
**1999 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology
**2000 Ludwig Fleck Award, Society for Social Studies of Science
Sheryl Ruzek, Virginia Olesen and Adele Clarke (Eds.) 1997. Women's Health: Complexities and Differences. Columbus OH: Ohio State University Press.
** 1997 Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year [one of three books named]
Adele Clarke and Joan Fujimura (Eds.) 1992. The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth Century Life Sciences. Princeton: Princeton University Press. - Clarke and Fujimura: "Introduction: What Tools? Which Jobs? Why Right?"
** 1996. French translation: La Materialite des Sciences: Savoir-faire et Instruments dans les Sciences de la Vie. Paris: Synthelabo Groupe.
Recent Journal Articles Published
2000 Adele Clarke, Jennifer Fishman, Jennifer Fosket, Laura Mamo, Janet Shim. "Technoscience and the New Biomedicalization: Western Roots, Global Rhizomes." Sciences Sociales et Sante 18(2):11-42 (in French).
2001 Lisa Jean Moore and Adele E. Clarke. "The Traffic in Cyberanatomies: Sex/ Gender/ Sexuality in Local and Global Formations." Body and Society 7:57-96.
2002 "The More Things Change, The More They [Also] Remain The Same." Special Issue Reappraisal of Diana Scully and Pauline Bart's (1973) Article 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Orifice: Women in Gynecology Textbooks.' Feminism and Psychology 13(1):34-39.
2003 Adele E. Clarke. "Situational Analyses: Grounded Theory Mapping After The Postmodern Turn." Special Issue on Theory and Method. Symbolic Interaction 26(4):553-576.
2003 Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer Fishman, Jennifer Fosket, Laura Mamo and Janet Shim. "Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine." American Sociological Review 68(April):161-194.
2007 Adele E. Clarke. "Reflections on the Reproductive Sciences in Agriculture in the UK and US, c1900-2000." To appear in Special Issue on Agricultural Sciences, Sarah Wilmot (Ed.) History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
Recent Chapters in Books
2000 "Maverick Reproductive Scientists and the Production of Contraceptives c1915-2000." Pp. 37-89 in Anne Saetnan, Nelly Oudshoorn and Marta Kirejczyk (Eds.) Bodies of Technology: Women's Involvement with Reproductive Medicine. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
2000 "Reproductive Physiology." In Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender (Eds.) Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. New York: Routledge.
2002 Adele E. Clarke. "Neue Wege der Qualitativen Forschung und die Grounded Theory" [New Directions in Qualitative Methods and Grounded Theory Analysis]. Pp. 71-89 in Qualitative Gesundheits- und Pflegeforschung (New Directions in Qualitative Health Research), edited by Doris Schaeffer. Bern: Verlag Hans Huber.
2003 Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen. "Revision der Frauengesundheit" [Revising, Diffracting, Acting in Women' Health]. Pp. 37-99 in Frauengesundheit: Pflege- und gesundheitswissenschaftliche Perpspektiven [Women´s Health: Perspectives from Nursing and Health Sciences], edited by Regina Lorenz-Krauss and Elisabeth Uhlander-Masiak. Bern: Verlag Hans Huber.
2003 Adele E. Clarke and Susan Leigh Star. "Symbolic Interactionist Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine." Pp. 539-574 in Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism, edited by Larry Reynolds and Nancy Herman. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.
2004 "Contraception" [in French]. Pp. 287-293 in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et Philosophie de la Médecine directed by Dominique Lecourt. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (PUF).
2004 Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer Fishman, Jennifer Fosket, Laura Mamo and Janet Shim. "Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformation of Health, Illness and Us Biomedicine." Pp. 442-455 in Peter Conrad (Ed.) The Sociology of Health and Illness. 7th Ed. New York: St. Martin's Press.
2004 "Reproductive Physiological Research at the Department of Embryology." Pp. 83-116 in 100 Years of the Department of Embryology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, edited by Jane Maienschein and Garland Allen. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2006 "Social Worlds." Pp. 4547-9 in George Ritzer (Ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Vol. IX. Malden MA: Blackwell.
2006 "Feminisms, Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis." Pp. 345-370 in Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.) The Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2007 "Grounded Theory: Conflicts, Debates and Situational Analysis." Pp. 838-885 in William Outhwaite and Stephen P. Turner (Eds.) Handbook of Social Science Methodology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2007 Adele E. Clarke and Carrie Friese. "Situational Analysis: Going Beyond Traditional Grounded Theory." Pp. 694-743 in Kathy Charmaz and Anthony Bryant (Eds.) Handbook of Grounded Theory. London: Sage.
2008 Adele E. Clarke and Susan Leigh Star. "The Social Worlds/Arenas/Discourse Framework as a Theory-Methods Package." To appear in Michael Lynch, Olga Amsterdamska, and Ed Hackett (Eds.) The New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2008 "From the Rise of Medicine to Biomedicalization: US Healthscapes and Iconography c1890-Present. To appear in Adele E. Clarke, Janet Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Fosket, and Jennifer Fishman (Eds.) 2008. Biomedicalization: Technoscience and Transformations of Health and Illness in the US. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2008 "Situational Analysis: A Haraway-Inspired Feminist Approach to Qualitative Research." To appear in Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi (Ed.), Thinking with Donna Haraway.
2008. Adele E. Clarke, Alondra Nelson, Janet Shim, and Sara Shostak. "Biomedicalization of Health and Identity. To appear in Handbook of Genetics and Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era. Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, and Margaret Lock (Eds.) London: Routledge.
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