Steven Epstein (academic)

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Steven Epstein is the John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities and

Science Studies program at the University of California, San Diego.[1]

Education

Epstein received his

PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993.[1]

Career

He is widely published, and has written three books, Learning By Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America's Communities, with David L. Kirp, Marlene Strong Franks, Jonathan Simon, Doug Conaway, and John Lewis (1989), Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (1996), and Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (2007). Impure Science has been reviewed by the New York Times,[3] The Washington Post,[4] and others. In 2009, Inclusion won the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award of the American Sociological Association.

Impure Science discusses how

AIDS patients in the 1980s were able to transform their status from being a disease constituency to being experts in experience. AIDS activism was seen by many as being the template for patient and health groups' activities. The book won the C. Wright Mills Award for the best first book published by a sociologist[5] and the Rachel Carson Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science
.

References

  1. ^ a b "Steven Epstein: Department of Sociology - Northwestern University". sociology.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  2. ^ "Steven Epstein | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research". investigatorawards.org. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  3. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (January 12, 1997). "Breakthrough". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
  4. ISSN 0190-8286
    . Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  5. ^ "The Society for the Study of Social Problems | Past Winners". www.sssp1.org. Retrieved 2024-01-10.


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