Carol Heimer
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Carol Heimer's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carol Anne Heimer is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. She is known for her research on the sociology of risk and responsibility, and on regulation and ethics. Career and personal life She received her B.A. from Reed College and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation advisors were Charles Bidwell, Edward Laumann, Paul Hirsch, Donald Levine, and Michael Schudson.
Carol Heimer's Published Works
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Published Works
- Competing institutions: Law, medicine, and family in neonatal intensive care (1999) (334)
- Social Structure, Psychology, and the Estimation of Risk (1988) (206)
- Crime and Punishment--Changing Attitudes in America. (1981) (204)
- Organization Theory and Project Management: Administering Uncertainty in Norwegian Offshore Oil (1986) (173)
- Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs (2008) (151)
- Reactive Risk and Rational Action: Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts. (1986) (144)
- Solving the Problem of Trust (2001) (137)
- Doing Your Job and Helping Your Friends: Universalistic Norms about Obligations to Particular Others in Networks (1992) (114)
- Bureaucratic Ethics: IRBs and the Legal Regulation of Human Subjects Research (2010) (111)
- For the Sake of the Children: The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home (1998) (103)
- REGULATING CREATIVITY: RESEARCH AND SURVIVAL IN THE IRB IRON CAGE[dagger] (2007) (82)
- Cases and Biographies: An Essay on Routinization and the Nature of Comparison (2001) (71)
- Interdependence and reintegrative social control: Labeling and reforming ‘inappropriate’ parents in neonatal intensive care units (1995) (54)
- Inert facts and the illusion of knowledge: strategic uses of ignorance in HIV clinics (2012) (53)
- Old Inequalities, New Disease: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007) (51)
- 'Wicked' ethics: Compliance work and the practice of ethics in HIV research. (2013) (51)
- Thinking about how to avoid thought: Deep norms, shallow rules, and the structure of attention (2008) (45)
- Allocating Information Costs in a Negotiated Information Order: Interorganizational Constraints on Decision Making in Norwegian Oil Insurance (1985) (43)
- Explaining variation in the impact of law: Organizations, institutions, and professions (1996) (38)
- Extending the rails: How research reshapes clinics (2011) (33)
- Review of Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein, Paul Slovic, Stephen Derby, and Ralph Keeney, Acceptable Risk: American Journal of Sociology (1982) (32)
- Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance (2002) (30)
- Disarticulated Responsiveness: The Theory and Practice of Responsive Regulation in Multi- Layered Systems (2011) (30)
- Caring for the Organization (1997) (27)
- The Ethnographic Turn: Fact, Fashion, or Fiction? (2004) (24)
- Conceiving Children: How Documents Support Case versus Biographical Analyses (2006) (24)
- Interorganizational Relations and Careers in Computer Software Firms (1988) (21)
- Health care and new governance: The quest for effective regulation (2008) (21)
- Risk and Rules: The ‘Legalization’ of Medicine (2005) (20)
- Remodeling the Garbage Can: Implications of the Origins of Items in Decision Streams (1999) (19)
- Organizational and Individual Control of Career Development in Engineering Project Work (1984) (19)
- Performing Regulation: Transcending Regulatory Ritualism in HIV Clinics (2012) (18)
- The Unstable Alliance of Law and Morality (2010) (17)
- Local Justice: How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and Necessary Burdens, by Jon Elster (1993) (16)
- Studying ethics as policy: The naming and framing of moral problems in genetic research. Commentaries. Author's reply (2005) (16)
- Love and irrationality: It's got to be rational to love you because it makes me so happy (1980) (15)
- Insurers as Moral Actors (2003) (15)
- Resilience in the Middle (2013) (15)
- Social Experiences of Women with Obstetric Fistula Seeking Treatment in Kampala, Uganda. (2017) (12)
- Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine (2009) (11)
- Regulation & Governance Best Article Prize winners for 2009 (2010) (10)
- Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States.Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer (1980) (7)
- 11. Insurers as Moral Actors (2003) (7)
- The Racial and Organizational Origins of Insurance Redlining (1982) (7)
- Your Baby’s Fine, Just Fine: Certification Procedures, Meetings, and the Supply of Information in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (1992) (6)
- Colonizing the clinic: The adventures of law in HIV treatment and research (2016) (5)
- Organizational Encounters with Risk: Risk and rules: the ‘legalization’ of medicine (2005) (5)
- Regulation & Governance announces annual “Best Article” prize-winners (2012) (5)
- Gender Inequalities in the Distribution of Responsibility (1996) (4)
- Reactive Risk and Rational Action (2023) (4)
- RESPONSIBILITY IN HEALTH CARE: SPANNING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN LAW AND MEDICINE (2006) (4)
- Law: New Institutionalism (2001) (4)
- Elements of the cooperative solution: Law, economics, and the other social sciences (1997) (3)
- What Is a Clinic? Relationships and the Practice of Organizational Ethnography (2019) (2)
- Retooling for the next century: Sober methods for studying the subconscious (2000) (2)
- Law: New institutionalism: International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Failed Governance: A Comment on Baker and Griffith's Ensuring Corporate Misconduct (2013) (1)
- The uses of disorder in negotiated information orders: information leveraging and changing norms in global public health governance† (2018) (1)
- Legal Systems and Moral Codes (2009) (1)
- Side Effects: Accountability in International HIV/AIDS Programs (2009) (1)
- Rational Choice Theory About Real Life@@@Principles of Group Solidarity. (1989) (1)
- Side Effects: Accountability and the Treatment of HIV/AIDS (2008) (0)
- Review of Robert A. Kagan, Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law: Journal of Law and Society (2003) (0)
- Law, Sociology of (2015) (0)
- Review of Jeanne Harley Guillemin and Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, Mixed Blessings: Contemporary Sociology (1987) (0)
- Wayward Technology, by Ernst Braun (1985) (0)
- Good Law to Fight Bad Bugs: Legal Responses to Epidemics (2022) (0)
- Institutional Transfers, Organizations, and Regulatory Contexts (2015) (0)
- Making Bureaucracies Think: The Environmental Impact Statement Strategy of Administrative Reform, by Serge Taylor (1986) (0)
- Biographies, Legal Cases and Political Transitions (2009) (0)
- Review of Eileen Stillwaggon, AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty: American Journal of Sociology (2008) (0)
- Review of Serge Taylor, Making Bureaucracies Think: American Journal of Sociology (1986) (0)
- Old Inequalities, New Disease: HIV/AIDS in (2007) (0)
- Mixed Blessings: Intensive Care for Newborns by Jeanne Harley Guillemin, Lynda Lytle Holmstrom (1987) (0)
- Review of Daniel Chambliss, Beyond Caring: Contemporary Sociology (1997) (0)
- working title: Expertise and Flexibility in Medicine and Law ∞ (What Happens when HIV Guidelines are Hardened by Law) (2008) (0)
- Review of Samuel Cohn, The Process of Occupational Sex Typing: American Journal of Sociology (1986) (0)
- Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 1998 (1999) (0)
- Performing Regulation: Observations from Four HIV Clinics (2006) (0)
- Business Disputing Symposium (1996) (0)
- Review of Kieran Healy, Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs: Contemporary Sociology (2008) (0)
- Review of Jon Elster, Local Justice: American Journal of Sociology (1993) (0)
- Review of Charles Bosk, All God’s Mistakes: American Journal of Sociology (1994) (0)
- Between the constitution and the clinic: Formal and de facto rights to healthcare (2021) (0)
- No Bane to Families: Newsletter of the Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society (1978) (0)
- Book Review All God's Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital by Charles L. Bosk (1994) (0)
- Review of Lloyd B. Lueptow, Adolescent Sex Roles and Social Change: Sociology and Social Research (1985) (0)
- Active and Passive Responsibility (2015) (0)
- The Demolition of Skid Row by Ronald J. Miller (1983) (0)
- Review of Ronald J. Miller, The Demolition of Skid Row: Contemporary Sociology (1983) (0)
- Discipline and Disease: Directly Observed Therapy and the Panoptic Gaze in HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Control (2006) (0)
- Producing Responsible Behavior in Order to Produce Oil: Bringing Obligations, Rights, Incentives, and Resources Together in the Norwegian State Oil Company: Institute of Industrial Economics (1986) (0)
- Subterranean successes: Durable regulation and regulatory endowments (2021) (0)
- Review of Dorothy Nelkin (ed.), The Language of Risk: Contemporary Sociology (1986) (0)
- Review of Elaine Draper, Risky Business: Contemporary Sociology (1992) (0)
- Review of Ernst Braun, Wayward Technology: Contemporary Sociology (1985) (0)
- Review of Barton Hacker, The Dragon’s Tail: Contemporary Sociology (1988) (0)
- Rational Choice Theory about Real Life: Contemporary Sociology (1989) (0)
- Constructing the Right to Health: Universal Treatment and Access to Medicines for HIV, TB, and Malaria (2011) (0)
- Volume Information (1987) (0)
- Regulation & Governance announces annual “Best Article” prize-winners: Editorial (2011) (0)
- AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty. By Eileen Stillwaggon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+260. $35.00. (2008) (0)
- Review of Greg Squires, ed., Insurance Redlining: Contemporary Sociology (1998) (0)
- How Research Shapes Medical Work: Organizational Effects of Clinical Trials (2006) (0)
- Review of Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey, The Common Place of Law: Contemporary Sociology (1999) (0)
- Review of Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine: Contemporary Sociology (2009) (0)
- Acceptable Risk, by Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein, Paul Slovic, Stephen Derby, Ralph Keeney (1982) (0)
- Book Review The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Work in Great Britain by Samuel Cohn (1986) (0)
- Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury. By Anna Kirkland. New York: New York University Press, 2016. (2018) (0)
- CASES AND BIOGRAPHIES: An Essay on (2001) (0)
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