Grants per year
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Research Interests
Professor Epstein studies the “politics of knowledge”—more specifically, the contested production of expert and especially biomedical knowledge, with an emphasis on the interplay of social movements, experts, and health institutions, and with a focus on the politics of sexuality, gender, and race.
Education/Academic qualification
Sociology, PhD, University of California at Berkeley
… → 1993
Sociology, MA, University of California at Berkeley
… → 1987
Social Studies, AB, Harvard University
… → 1983
Research interests
- Politics of knowledge
- Sexuality studies
- Sociology of biomedicine
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Grants
- 5 Finished
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Dissertation Grant: Medical Technologies and Social Identities
3/15/16 → 2/28/19
Project: Research project
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Dissertation Grant: Social Science's Use of Controlled Field Experiments
3/15/16 → 2/28/18
Project: Research project
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What do we know? Theoretical Issues in Social Epistemology
Goldberg, S. C., Epstein, S. G., Lackey, J. & Wilensky, U.
5/15/14 → 9/1/16
Project: Research project
Research Output
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Cultivated co-production: Sexual health, human rights, and the revision of the ICD
Epstein, S., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Social Studies of Science.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The new sexual politics of cancer: Oncoviruses, disease prevention, and sexual health promotion oa
Mamo, L. & Epstein, S., Sep 1 2017, In: BioSocieties. 12, 3, p. 367-391 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Scopus citations -
The proliferation of sexual health: Diverse social problems and the legitimation of sexuality
Epstein, S. & Mamo, L., Sep 2017, In: Social Science and Medicine. 188, p. 176-190 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
17 Scopus citations -
The politics of health mobilization in the United States: The promise and pitfalls of “disease constituencies”
Epstein, S., Sep 1 2016, In: Social Science and Medicine. 165, p. 246-254 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
10 Scopus citations -
‘For men arousal is orientation’: Bodily truthing, technosexual scripts, and the materialization of sexualities through the phallometric test
Waidzunas, T. & Epstein, S., Apr 28 2015, In: Social Studies of Science. 45, 2, p. 187-213 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
14 Scopus citations