Steven Epstein's Publications



Books:


INCLUSION: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).


Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (University of California Press, 1996).
Paperback edition 1998.

Learning By Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America's Communities, with David L. Kirp, Marlene Strong Franks, Jonathan Simon, Doug Conaway, and John Lewis (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989).


Selected articles and book chapters (last 10 years only):

"Beyond the Standard Human?" Forthcoming in Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life, ed. Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).

"The Rise of 'Recruitmentology': Clinical Research, Racial Knowledge, and the Politics of Inclusion and Difference." Forthcoming in Social Studies of Science (2008).

"Culture and Science/Technology: Rethinking Knowledge, Power, Materiality, and Nature." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (in a special issue on "Cultural Sociology and Its Diversity") 619 (September 2008).

"Patient Groups and Health Movements." Pp. 499-539 in The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 3rd edition, ed. Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008).

"'The Badlands of Desire': Sex Research, Cultural Scenarios, and the Politics of Knowledge Production." Pp. 249-63 in The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts, ed. Michael Kimmel (Vanderbilt University Press, 2007).

"Targeting the State: Risks, Benefits, and Strategic Dilemmas of Recent LGBT Health Advocacy." In The Health of Sexual Minorities: Public Health Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations, ed. Ilan H. Meyer and Mary E. Northridge (New York: Springer, 2006): 149-68.

"The New Attack on Sexuality Research: Morality and the Politics of Knowledge Production." Sexuality Research and Social Policy 3, no. 1 (March 2006): 1-12.

"Institutionalizing the New Politics of Difference in U.S. Biomedical Research: Thinking across the Science/State/Society Divides." In The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks and Power, ed. Scott Frickel and Kelly Moore (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006): 327-50.

"Bodily Differences and Collective Identities: The Politics of Gender and Race in Biomedical Research in the United States." Body & Society 10, no. 2-3 (2004): 183-203.

"Inclusion, Diversity, and Biomedical Knowledge-Making: The Multiple Politics of Representation." In How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology, ed. Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003): 173-90.

"An Incitement to Discourse: Sociology and The History of Sexuality." Sociological Forum 18, no. 3 (September 2003): 486-500.

"Sexualizing Governance and Medicalizing Identities: The Emergence of 'State-Centered' LGBT Health Politics in the United States." Sexualities 6, no. 2 (May 2003): 131-171.

"Democracy, Expertise, and AIDS Treatment Activism." In Science, Technology, and Democracy, ed. Daniel Kleinman (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000): 15-32.

"Gay and Lesbian Movements in the United States: Dilemmas of Identity, Diversity, and Political Strategy." In The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics: National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement, ed. Barry Adam, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and André Krouwel (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998): 30-90.


Selected book reviews and short articles (last 10 years only):

Review of The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality, by Elizabeth A. Povinelli. American Journal of Sociology 114, no. 1 (July 2008).

"Beyond the Politics of Inclusion and Difference." Author's response to reviewers in a symposium devoted to Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research. Biosocieties 3, no. 2 (June 2008).

Review of When Illness Goes Public. Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine, by Barron H. Lerner. Isis 99, no. 1 (March 2008): 220-222.

Review of The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS, by Helen Epstein. Times Literary Supplement, 5 March 2008.

Review of Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies, by Charis Thompson. American Journal of Sociology 112, no. 2 (September 2006): 619-620.

Review of Reinventing the Male Homosexual: The Rhetoric and Power of the Gay Gene, by Robert Alan Brookey. Gender & Society 18, no. 3 (June 2004): 415-17.

Review of Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994, by Elizabeth A. Armstrong. Social Forces 82, no. 3 (March 2004): 1216-18.

Review of Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency, by Christiana Bastos. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 27, no. 1 (February 2002): 122-25.

Review of RePlacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy, by Michael P. Brown. Isis 91, no. 2 (June 2000): 423-24.

Review of Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and the Problems of Sex, by Adele E. Clarke. American Journal of Sociology 105, no. 3 (November 1999): 872-74.

Review of Difference Troubles, by Steven Seidman. Sexualities 2, no. 2 (May 1999): 270-71.

Review of Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos, by Annick Prieur. Contemporary Sociology 28, no. 2 (March 1999): 173-74.

Review of Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge, by Steve Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd. Social Forces 77, no. 1 (September 1998): 381-83.

"History and Diagnosis of 'Scientific' Medicine." Review of Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Techniques and Medical Practices, by Marc Berg, and The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeutic Reform in the United States, 1900-1990, by Harry M. Marks. Social Studies of Science 28, no. 3 (June 1998): 489-95.

"DN-Gay? Ethics and the Search for a Scientific Answer." Review of Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research, by Timothy F. Murphy. L.A. Weekly, 9-15 January 1998, 45.