Stefan Timmermans
PROFESSOR
Ph. D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1995
Office: 266 HAINES HALL
Phone: 310-206-6526
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
stefan@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Ethnography, sociology of health and illness, science and technology, the body, death and dying.
Research Interests
My research draws from medical sociology and science studies and uses ethnographic and historical methods to address key issues in the for-profit U.S. health care system. I have conducted research on medical technologies, health professions, death and dying, and population health. I am currently conducting a study of the expansion of newborn screening.
Selected Publications
Books
2006 Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
2003 (with Marc Berg) The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care. Temple University Press: Philadelphia, PA.
1999 Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR. Temple University Press: Philadelphia, PA.
Articles (selection)
2009 Stefan Timmermans and Rene Almeling, “Objectification, Standardization, and Commodification: A Conceptual Readjustment and Research Agenda” Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 69, pp. 21-27.
2009 Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans, “Two Cases of Ethnography: Grounded Theory and the Extended Case Method” Ethnography, Vol. 10 (3), pp. 1-21.
2008 Stefan Timmermans and Steven Haas, “Towards a Sociology of Disease” Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 30 (5), pp. 659-676.
2008 Stefan Timmermans, “Professions and Their Work: Do Market Shelters Protect Professional Interests?” Work and Occupations, Vol. 35 (2), pp. 164-188.
2007 Stefan Timmermans and Betina Freidin "Caretaking as Articulation Work: The Effects of Taking up Responsibility for a Child with Asthma on Labor Force Participation" Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 65 (7), pp. 1351-1364.
2005 Stefan Timmermans "Suicide Determination and the Professional Authority of Medical Examiners" American Sociological Review, Vol.70 (April), 311-333.
2005 Stefan Timmermans and Aaron Mauck "The Promises and Pitfalls of Evidence-Based Medicine" Health Affairs, Vol 24 (1), 18-28.
2005 Stefan Timmermans "Death Brokering: Constructing Culturally Appropriate Deaths" Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 27 (7), 993-1013.
2003 Stefan Timmermans "A Black Technician and Blue-Babies," Social Studies of Science, Vol 33 (2), 197-229.
1998 Stefan Timmermans "Social Death as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: David Sudnow's "Passing On" Revisited." The Sociological Quarterly, Vol 39 (3), pp. 453-472.
1997 Stefan Timmermans and Marc Berg "Standardization in Action: Achieving Local Universality through Medical Protocols." Social Studies of Science, Vol. 27 (2), pp. 273-305.
Awards
Sociology of Health and Illness book award from the British Sociological Association for Postmortem, 2007
Eliot Freidson book award for best book published in the past two years from the Medical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association for Postmortem, 2006
Robert K. Merton Professional award for best book published in past three years from the Science, Knowledge, and Society section of the American Sociological Association for The Gold Standard, 2005
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Fellowship, Harvard University, 2003-2005
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