Interests

• History of scientific research on drug addiction
• History and sociology of bioethics
• Global public health
• U.S. drug policy
• Science and technology policy
• Feminist science and technology studies
• Postcolonial science and technology studies

Courses

Graduate courses “Discourse Analysis” “Policy Studies” “Postcolonial and Feminist Science Studies” “Science, Technology, and Social Justice”

Undergraduate courses “Drugs in History” “Gender, Science, and Technology”   “Law, Values, and Public Policy”  “Medicine and Society”

Major Publications 

Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice (New York: Routledge, 2000).

Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2007).

The Narcotic Farm: A History in Photographs. Co-edited with J.P. Olsen and Luke Walden (New York: Abrams, Forthcoming Fall 2008).

“Science, Technology, and Social Movements,” co-authored with Steve Breyman, David Hess, and Brian Martin for the New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, eds. Edward Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, Judy Wajcman (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 473-498).

“Everyday Insecurities: The Micro-Behavioral Politics of Intrusive Surveillance.” In Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life, ed. Torin Monahan, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2006).

“’A New Deal for the Drug Addict’: The Addiction Research Center (ARC), Lexington, Kentucky. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 42.2 (Spring 2006): 135-157.

“Suspect Technologies: Scrutinizing the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Policy.” Science, Technology, and Human Values. v. 30, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 374-402.

“Technologies of Suspicion: Coercion and Compassion in Post-disciplinary Surveillance Regimes.” Surveillance and Society. v. 2, no. 1 (Summer 2004).

“Credible Performances: The Performativity of Science Studies.” Social Studies of Science. V. 34, no. 3 (June 2004): 433-442.

“Reading the Rhetoric of Compassionate Conservatism,” in Fundamental Differences: Feminists Reply to Social Conservatives, eds. Cynthia Burack and Jyl Josephson (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).

"Regulating 'Maternal Instinct': The Governing Mentalities of U.S. Drug Policy in the Late Twentieth Century." Signs: Journal of Women, Culture, and Society, v. 24, no. 4 (Summer 1999).

 Selected Lectures and Conference Papers

“Governing Mentalities: Harm Reduction Drug Policy as a Mode of Governance.” Panel on “Hidden Histories of Harm Reduction.” Annual conference of the Drug Policy Alliance. New Orleans, Louisiana. December 2007.

“The Laboratory Logics of Pain and Addiction Research.” Organized panel “Knowing Pain: The Cultural Logics of Pain and Drug Addiction Research.” Society for the Social Studies of Science. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. October 2007.

 “Situating Bioethics: Making Sociological Sense of the History of Bioethics.” University of Connecticut. Storrs, Connecticut. April 2007.

“Can Science Serve Social Justice? The Consequences of Cutting Relevant Social Groups Out of Science and Technology Policy.” Science and Inequity Workshop. Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO). Arizona State University. May 2006.

“Active Practices and Hidden Histories: Harm Reduction in the United States.” Co-authored with Susan Shaw for the panel, “Healthcare Ethics, Ethnographic Insights.” American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. December 2005.

“Multiple American Methadones: The Historical Travails of a Controversial Molecule.” Society for the Social Studies of Science. Pasadena, California. October 2005.

“‘Between Coercion and Seduction’: The Ethical and Political Climate of Substance Abuse Research in the Ford Era.” Invited paper, University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center and the Gerald Ford Presidential Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan. March 2005.