Discipline(s):
Sociology
Area(s) of Expertise:
Qualitative Research-Ethnography, Medical Sociology Science Studies, Medical Technology, Death and Dying, Population Health
E-Mail:
stefan@soc.ucla.edu
Background:
Stefan Timmermans, Ph.D. is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at Harvard University and an associate professor in medical sociology at Brandeis University. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He is interested in medical technologies, death and dying, and qualitative research. Timmermans’ publications include Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR (Temple University Press, 1999), The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care (Temple University Press, 2003). His book Suspicious Death is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press. As a Health & Society Scholar, he is conducting the North Shore Asthma Study, a comparative qualitative research project studying the impact of asthma on neighborhood, family, school and work life. The research project consists of in-depth open-ended interviews with 50 primary caregivers of children with asthma from Lynn and Marblehead.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Stefan Timmermans's available publications in PubMed.
Books:
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Timmermans, Stefan. Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths. University of Chicago Press, 2006
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Timmermans, Stefan and Marc Berg, Marc. The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care. Temple University Press, 2003
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Timmermans, Stefan. Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR. Temple University Press, 1999
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