Carol Heimer named Princeton LAPA Fellow
October 28, 2007, ABF news
ABF Research Professor Carol A. Heimer has been awarded a 2007-08 Fellowship at Princeton University's Program in Law and Public Affairs. During her year at Princeton, she will write a book from her NSF-funded comparative study of the role of law in medicine. In recent years, American medicine has been "legalized” as relatively informal regulation by professional peers has been supplanted by an increasingly rule-based system. By no means confined to the US, this rule-based regulation has diffused widely, sometimes freely adopted by medical workers eager for the legitimacy conferred by American medical science, at other times imposed on foreign scientific colleagues by American funding agencies and research organizations. The Legal Transformation of Medicine will be grounded in ethnographic work and interviews on the use of rules (broadly conceived) in HIV/AIDS clinics in the US, Uganda, South Africa, and Thailand.
Heimer is a also a Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University.
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