Faculty and Researchers with STS Interests - Profile

Adele E. Clarke
Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
University of California, San Francisco


Email: Adele.Clarke@ucsf.edu

Adele 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). Clarke's book on qualitative research and analysis is just out from Sage (2005), titled Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn. Her current project takes up the history of biomedicalization and globalization by focusing on how medicines have traveled since the early twentieth century.

Website: http://www.ucsf.edu/medsoc/bios/aclarke.html

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