Joan Fujimura | Academic Influence

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Joan Fujimura

Sociology

#1278

World Rank

#1460

Historical Rank

#494

USA Rank

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Joan Fujimura's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Joan Hideko Fujimura is an American sociologist and the Martindale-Bascom Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the president of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. She was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1999 to 2001 and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 2014 to 2015.

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Joan Fujimura's Published Works

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Constructing `Do-able' Problems in Cancer Research: Articulating Alignment (1987) (473)
The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences (1992) (422)
Different differences: The use of ‘genetic ancestry’ versus race in biomedical human genetic research (2011) (261)
The Molecular Biological Bandwagon in Cancer Research: Where Social Worlds Meet (1988) (249)
The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing (2007) (225)
Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer (1997) (161)
1. What Tools? Which Jobs? Why Right? (1992) (127)
Race, genetics, and disease: questions of evidence, matters of consequence. (2008) (83)
Dissent in science: styles of scientific practice and the controversy over the cause of AIDS. (1994) (71)
Sex Genes: A Critical Sociomaterial Approach to the Politics and Molecular Genetics of Sex Determination (2006) (71)
Postgenomic futures: translations across the machine-nature border in systems biology (2005) (66)
Calculating life? Duelling discourses in interdisciplinary systems biology. (2011) (65)
Authorizing Knowledge in Science and Anthropology (1998) (50)
Clines Without Classes (2014) (41)
Constructing knowledge across social worlds: The case of DNA sequence databases in molecular biology (1996) (24)
Calculating life? (2009) (20)
The Practices of Producing Meaning in Bioinformatics (1999) (16)
9. Making History via DNA, Making DNA from History: Deconstructing the Race-Disease Connection in Admixture Mapping (2020) (15)
Staying the Course: On the Value of Social Studies of Science in Resistance to the “Post‐Truth” Movement (2019) (12)
Introduction: Race, Genetics, and Disease (2008) (11)
Variations on a Chip: Technologies of Difference in Human Genetics Research (2018) (8)
Standardizing practices: a socio-history of experimental systems in classical genetic and virological cancer research, ca. 1920-1978. (1996) (8)
Will personalized medicine challenge or reify categories of race and ethnicity? (2012) (6)
Chapter 9. Future Imaginaries (2019) (5)
Cancer Research: Articulating Alignment (2016) (3)
Race, Ethnicity, Ancestry, and Genomics in Hawai‘i (2020) (3)
48. The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing (2019) (3)
A different kind of association between socio-histories and health. (2015) (3)
Some Scholars' Babies are Other Scholars' Bathwater@@@The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences. (1993) (2)
The Science and Business of Ancestry Testing (2007) (2)
Molecular Genetic Technologies: The New Tools of the Trade (1996) (1)
Authorizing Science Studies and Anthropology (1999) (1)
Tools of the Trade: A Brief History of Standardized Experimental Systems in Cancer Research, 1920-1978 (1996) (0)
Introduction: Creating a New Realm (1996) (0)
Styles of practice in HIV/AIDS research (1996) (0)
Conclusion: Crafting Oncogenes (1996) (0)
Ramya Rajagopalan human genetic research Different differences : The use of ' genetic ancestry ' versus race in biomedical (2010) (0)
Appendix: Social and Cultural Studies of Science (1996) (0)
The Articulation of Doable Problems in Cancer Research (1996) (0)
Problems and Work Practices: Improvising on the Shop Floor (1996) (0)
MEDICINE AND SOCIETY Will Personalized Medicine Challenge or Reify Categories of Race and Ethnicity (2012) (0)
Distributing Authority and Transforming Biology (1996) (0)
Variations on a Chip: Technologies of Difference in Human Genetics Research (2018) (0)
Book Review:Theories of Science in Society Susan E. Cozzens, Thomas F. Gieryn (1993) (0)
Sociology/STS 611 Gender, Science, and Technology (2004) (0)

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