Adele E. Clarke's research centers on social, cultural and historical studies of science, technology and medicine with emphases on biomedicalization and common medical technologies such as contraception and the Pap smear. She is the author of Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the 'Problem of Sex' (University of California Press, 1998). 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, in French by Synthelabo Press, 1996). In women's health, Dr. Clarke 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, 1999). She developed a method for qualitative research, Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn (Sage, 2005). A co-edited volume Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the U.S. is just out from Duke (2010), including her paper on healthscapes and their visual cultures. Her current projects take up animal models, abduction as a key process in anticipation, and new directions in feminist technoscience studies.