Private Practice Telephone, 415-661-5829
Campus Telephone, 415-476-2191
2 Koret Way, N-631
San Francisco, CA 94143-0610
Research
The consistent line of research has focused on long-term problems of family and lay individuals in managing their lives despite the social/psychological consequences of chronic illness, hospital and nursing-home organizational behavior, and the impact of health policy.
Professional Activities
American Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
International Sociological Association
Patient Care Assessment Council
Teaching
N/S 285A Qualitative Research
N/S 285B Qualitative Field Research
Honors/Awards
1972 Summa Cum Laude
1976-78 Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health; supported by National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
1981 Nominated for C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
1982-83 National Research Service Award from the National Institute on Aging
1985 Member of the Charles Horton Cooley Award committee for the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
1987 Speaker, University of California Symposium in honor of Anselm Strauss, Ph.D., retiring Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
1988 Keynote address, National Scientific Meeting, Arthritis Health Professions Association, Houston, Texas, May 25.
1996 Speaker, Celebration of the Life and Work of Dr. Anselm Strauss, University of California, San Francisco.
2001 Opening lecture, lecture series on Critiquing Health Improvement, Nottingham University, England.
2001 Honoree, UCSF "Celebrating Women Faculty," inaugural event honoring women faculty for their accomplishments and achievements.
2002 The Elusive Quest nominated for the Charles Horton Codey Award, Society for the study of Symbolic Interaction.
2002 The Elusive Quest Nominated for the Eliot Freidson Award, American Sociological Association.
Education/Degrees
San Francisco State University, B.A., Summa Interdisciplinary Cum Laude, Social Science
University of California, San Francisco, M.A., Sociology, Ph.D., Sociology
Wiener, C. The Politics of Alcoholism: Building an Arena Around a Social Problem. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books.
2000 Wiener, C. The Elusive Quest: Accountability in Hospitals. New York: Aldine de Gruyter
Books Co-Authored
Strauss, A., Corbin, J., Fagerhaugh, S., Glaser, B., Maines, D., Suczek, B., and Wiener, C.. Chronic Illness and the Quality of Life. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby.
Strauss, A., Fagerhaugh, S., Suczek, B., & Wiener, C. Social Organization of Medical Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Republished 1997, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.)
Fagerhaugh, S., Strauss, A., Suczek, B., & Wiener, C. Hazards in Hospital Care:Ensuring Patient Safety. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Wiener, C. and Wysmans, W.M. (Eds.). Grounded Theory in Medical Research: From Theory to Practice. Amsterdam: Sivets and Zeitlinger.
1997 Wiener, C. and Strauss, A. (Eds.). Where Medicine Fails, Fifth Edition. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction
1990 Wiener, C., & Kayser-Jones, J. The uneasy fate of nursing home residents: An organizational-interaction perspective. Sociology of Health and Illness, 12, 84-104.
Wiener, C. Arenas and Careers: The complex interweaving of personal and organizational destiny. In D. Maines (Ed.), Social Organization and Social Processes: Essays in Honor of Anselm Strauss (pp. 175-188). New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Strauss, A., Fagerhaugh, S., Suczek, B., & Wiener, C. AIDS and health care deficiencies. Society, 28, 63-73.
Wiener, C., & Dodd, M. Coping amid uncertainty: An illness trajectory perspective. Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice, 7, 17-31. Reprinted in Hyman, R. and Corbin, J. (Eds.) (2001). Chronic Illness: Research and Theory for Nursing Practice (pp. 180-198). New York: Springer Publishing.
1996 Dowling, G., & Wiener, C. Roadblocks encountered in recruiting patients for a study of sleep disruption in Alzheimer's disease. Image, 29, 59-64.
2000 Wiener, C. Applying the Straussian framework of action, negotiation and social arenas to a study of accountability in hospitals. Sociological Perspectives, 43, S59- S71.
2004 Wiener, C. Holding American hospitals accountable: Rhetoric and reality. Nursing Inquiry, forthcoming.
