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Steven G Epstein

  • 1398 Citations
1987 …2019

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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, Berkeley

… → 1993

Sociology, MA, University of California, Berkeley

… → 1987

Social Studies, AB, Harvard University

… → 1983

Research interests

  • Politics of knowledge
  • Sexuality studies
  • Sociology of biomedicine

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Grants

Dissertation Grant: Social Science's Use of Controlled Field Experiments

Epstein, S. G. & Rayzberg, M.

National Science Foundation

3/15/16 → 2/28/18

Project: Research project

    • Dissertation Grant: Medical Technologies and Social Identities

    Epstein, S. G.

    National Science Foundation

    3/15/16 → 2/28/19

    Project: Research project

    • Assessing Evidence-Based Psychotherapy

    Epstein, S. G.

    National Science Foundation

    8/1/15 → 7/31/17

    Project: Research project

    What do we know? Theoretical Issues in Social Epistemology

    Cariani, F., Epstein, S. G., Goldberg, S. C., Lackey, J. & Wilensky, U.

    Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

    5/15/14 → 9/1/16

    Project: Research project

    • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Human Rights and the Warming World: Investigating the Use and Impact of Social Knowledge Claims in the Climate Debate

    Epstein, S. G.

    National Science Foundation

    3/15/12 → 11/30/14

    Project: Research project

    Research Output

    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

    • 1 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

    • 8 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

    • 7 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

    • 10 Scopus citations

    Immigrant sexual citizenship: Intersectional templates among Mexican gay immigrants to the USA

    Epstein, S. & Carrillo, H., Jan 1 2014, In : Citizenship Studies. 18, 3-4, p. 259-276 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • 23 Scopus citations