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Carol A. Heimer

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Research Professor

  • 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
  • 4th Floor
  • Chicago, IL 60611

Joint appointment

Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago

Research focus

Overlapping normative systems; currently researching the normative systems of law and medicine in the world of HIV medicine.

Projects

The Legal Transformation of Medicine: How Rules Work in the International World of HIV/AIDS
Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008
This book project braids together investigations of three transformative events - the “legalization” and internationalization of medicine and the advent of HIV/AIDS - in a study of how…

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Publications

“Biographies, Legal Cases and Political Transitions”
Hart Publishing
Review of Kieran Healy, Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs
Contemporary Sociology
Review of Eileen Stillwaggon, AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty
American Journal of Sociology

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Presentations

Inert Facts and the Illusion of Knowledge: Managing Ignorance in HIV Clinics,” Keynote address at conference on “Strategic Unknowns: The Usefulness of Ambiguity and Ignorance in Organizational Life"
Oct 2009
Side Effects: Accountability in International HIV/AIDS Programs
Aug 2009 with W.N. Espeland
Legal Systems and Moral Codes
Jun 2009

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Professional Service & Recognition

  • Co-Editor, Regulation and Governance
  • Director, Legal Studies Program, Northwestern University
  • Member, Inaugural Editorial Board, Regulation and Governance
  • Member, Editorial Committee, book series on “Risk and Regulation,” Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics
  • Member, Special Committee on Bioethics and Law, American Bar Association