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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
2006-08 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
University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D. Sociology
Stanford University; NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow; Sociology
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Adele E. Clarke, Janet Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Fosket, and Jennifer Fishman (Eds.) In press/2009. Biomedicalization: Technoscience and Transformations of Health and Illness in the U.S. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Jan Morse, Phyllis N. Stern, Juliet Corbin, Barbara Bowers, Kathy Charmaz, and Adele E. Clarke. 2008. Developing Grounded Theory. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Adele E. Clarke. 2005. Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen (Eds.) 1999. Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
Adele E. Clarke. 1998. Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences and the 'Problems of Sex.' Berkeley: University of California Press.
Sheryl Ruzek, Virginia Olesen and Adele Clarke (Eds.) 1997. Women's Health: Differences and Complexities. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Adele E. Clarke and Joan Fujimura (Eds.) 1992. The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth Century Life Sciences. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2009 Adele E. Clarke, Chia-Ling Wu and Azumi Tsuge. "Introduction to Special Issue: Gender and Reproductive Technologies in East Asia." EASTS: East Asian Science and Technology Studies Journal, 3.1.
2009 "On Getting Lost with Patti Lather." To appear in Special Issue on Knowledge that Matters, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies.
2008 "Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity in the Legacy of Anselm Strauss." In Special Section: Celebrating Anselm Strauss and Forty Years of Grounded Theory, in Norman Denzin (Ed.) Studies in Symbolic Interaction 32:159-74.
2008 "Introduction to Special Section: Celebrating Anselm Strauss and Forty Years of Grounded Theory," in Norman Denzin (Ed.) Studies in Symbolic Interaction 32:61-69.
2007 "Reflections on the Reproductive Sciences in Agriculture in the UK and US, c1900-2000." Special Issue on Agricultural Sciences, Sarah Wilmot (Ed.) History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38(2):316-339.
2003 "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.
2000 Adele Clarke, Janet Shim, Jennifer Fosket, Jennifer Fishman, Laura Mamo. Technoscience and the New Biomedicalization: Western Roots, Global Rhizomes." [In French] Sciences Sociales et Sante 18(2):11-42.
1998 Monica Casper and Adele Clarke. "Making the Pap Smear Into the Right Tool for the Job: Cervical Cancer Screening in the U.S., c1940-1995." Social Studies of Science 28:255-290.
1996 Adele Clarke and Monica Casper. "From Simple Technique to Complex System: Classification of Pap Smears, 1917-1990." Medical Anthropology Quart. 10(4):601-23.
1993 "Money, Sex and Legitimacy at Chicago, 1900-1940: Lillie's Center of Reproductive Biology." Special Issue on Biology at the University of Chicago, Perspectives on Science 1(3):367-415.
1993 Adele Clarke and Theresa Montini. "The Many Faces of RU486: Tales of Situated Knowledges and Technological Contestations." Science, Technology and Human Values 18(1):42-78.
1990 "Controversy and the Development of American Reproductive Sciences." Social Problems 37(1):18-37.
2009 "Situational Analysis: A Haraway-Inspired Feminist Approach to Qualitative Research." To appear in Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi (Ed.) NatureCulture: Thinking with Donna Haraway. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2009 Adele E. Clarke and Janet Shim. "Medicalization and Biomedicalization Revisited." To appear in Bernice Pescosolido, Jack K. Martin, Jane D. McLeod, and Anne Rogers (Eds.) Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, & Healing: Blueprint for the 21st Century. New York: Springer.
2009 Adele E. Clarke, Janet Shim, Sara Shostak and Alondra Nelson. "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.
2008 "Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity in the Legacy of Anselm Strauss." To appear (in French) in Danielle Chabaud-Rychter, Virginie Descoutures, Anne-Marie Devreux, and Eleni Varikas (Eds.) Questions de Genre aux Sciences Sociales "Normâles." Paris: La Découverte.
2008 "Anselm L. Strauss." In George Ritzer (Ed.) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pubs.
2007 Adele 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.
2007 Adele E. Clarke and Susan Leigh Star. "The Social Worlds/Arenas Framework as a Theory-Methods Package." Pp. 113-137 in Edward Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wacjman (Eds.) Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2007 "Grounded Theory: Conflicts, Debates and Situational Analysis." Pp. 423-442 in William Outhwaite and Stephen P. Turner (Eds.) Handbook of Social Science Methodology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2006 "Social Worlds." Pp. 4547-9 in George Ritzer (Ed.) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Malden MA: Blackwell.
2006 "Feminisms, Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis." Pp. 345-370 in Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.) Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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.
2004 Adele Clarke, Jennifer Fishman, Jennifer Fosket, Laura Mamo and Janet Shim. "Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformation of Health, Illness and US Biomedicine." In Peter Conrad (Ed.) Sociology of Health and Illness. 7th ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 442-455.
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).
2003 Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen. "Revision der Frauengesundheit" [Revising, Diffracting, Acting in Women's 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.
2002 "Neue Wege der Qualitativen Forschung und die Grounded Theory" [New Directions in Qualitative Methods and Grounded Theory Analysis]. Pp. 71-89 in Doris Schaeffer (Ed.) Qualitative Gesundheits- und Pflegeforschung. Bern: Verlag Hans Huber.
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.
1995 "Epilogue: Research Materials (Re)Visited," Pp. 220-225 in Susan Leigh Star (Ed.) Ecologies of Knowledge: New Directions in Sociology of Science and Technology. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
1995 "Modernity, Postmodernity and Human Reproductive Processes c1890-1990, or 'Mommy, Where do Cyborgs Come From Anyway?" Pp. 139-156 in Chris Hables Gray, Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera and Steven Mentor (Eds.) The Cyborg Handbook. New York: Routledge.
1991 "Embryology and the Development of American Reproductive Science, 1910-1945." In Keith Benson, Ronald Rainger, and Jane Maienschein (Eds.) The American Expansion of Biology. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 180-231.
1991 "Social Worlds Theory as Organizational Theory." pp. 119-158 in D. Maines (Ed.) Social Organization and Social Process: Essays in Honor of Anselm Strauss. NY: Aldine.
1990 "Women's Health Over the Life Cycle." In Rima Apple (Ed.) Women, Health, and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook. New York: Garland Press, pp. 3-39.
1990 "A Social Worlds Research Adventure: The Case of Reproductive Science." In Susan Cozzens and Thomas Gieryn (Eds.) Theories of Science in Society. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 23-50.
-- 1997 Reprinted as pp. 63-94 in Anselm L. Strauss and Julie Corbin (Eds.) Grounded Theory in Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
1989 Adele Clarke and Alice Wolfson. "Race, Class and Reproductive Rights Organizing." In Karen V. Hansen and Ilene Philipson (Eds.) Women, Class and the Feminist Imagination. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 258-267.
1987 "Research Materials and Reproductive Science in the United States, 1910-1940." Pp. 323-350 in Gerald L. Geison (Ed.) Physiology in the American Context, 1850-1940. Bethesda: American Physiological Society.
1984 "Subtle Sterilization Abuse: A Reproductive Rights Perspective." In Rita Arditti, Renate Duelli Klein and Shelly Minden (Eds.) Test Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood? Boston: Pandora/Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 188-212. 1989 second edition.
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