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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee |
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2008-present
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Assistant Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics & Society
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Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona |
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2005-2008
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Assistant Professor, Women & Gender Studies Program
Faculty Affiliate, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes |
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| Education |
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York |
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Ph.D., with distinction, Science and Technology Studies |
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M.S., Science and Technology Studies |
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Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut |
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B.A., with honors, Psychology-Based Human Relations and French |
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Current Research Support
2009-2011 “Phase I Clinical Trials and the Informed Consent of Healthy Subjects” National Cancer Institute (NIH), Principal Investigator, $385,058.
Completed Research Support
2007-2010 "Effects of RFID Technologies on Organizational Dynamics in Hospitals” National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator [with Torin Monahan (Co-PI)], $247,162.
2006-2009 “Workshops on Surveillance and Society” National Science Foundation, Co-Principal Investigator [with Torin Monahan (PI), Gary Marx (Co-PI), & Simon Cole (Co-PI)], $108,807.
2003-2005 “Informed Consent in Private Sector Mental Health Research” Kirschstein-National Research Service Award, National Institute of Mental Health (NIH), Principal Investigator, $82,503.
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Books
Fisher, Jill A. (Ed.) (2011) Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine. Rutgers University Press..
Fisher, Jill A. (2009) Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials. Rutgers University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Fisher, Jill A. & Corey A. Kalbaugh (2011) Challenging Assumptions about Minority Participation in U.S. Clinical Research. American Journal of Public Health 101 (12): 2217-2222.
Monahan, Torin & Jill A. Fisher (2011) Surveillance Impediments: Recognizing Obduracy with the Deployment of Hospital Information Systems. Surveillance & Society 9 (1/2): 1-16.
Fisher, Jill A. & Torin Monahan (2011) The ‘Biosecuritization’ of Healthcare Delivery: Examples of Post-9/11 Technological Imperatives. Social Science & Medicine 72 (4): 545-552.
Monahan, Torin & Jill A. Fisher (2010) Implanting Inequality: Empirical Evidence of Social and Ethical Risks of RFID Implants. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 26 (4): 370-376.
Fisher, Jill A. & Lorna M. Ronald (2010) Sex, Gender, and Pharmaceutical Politics: From Drug Development to Marketing. Gender Medicine 7 (4): 357-370.
Monahan, Torin & Jill A. Fisher (2010) Benefits of 'Observer Effects': Lessons from the Field. Qualitative Research 10 (3): 357–376.
Fisher, Jill A. (2010) Re-inscribing Gender within New Modes of Medical Expertise: The Investigator-Coordinator Relationship in the Clinical Trials Industry. Gender, Work & Organization 17 (2): 150-173.
Fisher, Jill A. (2008) Institutional Mistrust in the Organization of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials. Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy 11 (4): 403-413.
Fisher, Jill A. (2008) Practicing Research Ethics: Private-Sector Physicians & Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials. Social Science & Medicine 66 (12): 2495-2505.
Fisher, Jill A. & Torin Monahan (2008) Tracking the Social Dimensions of RFID Systems in Hospitals. International Journal of Medical Informatics 77 (3): 176-183.
Fisher, Jill A. (2007) ‘Ready-to-Recruit’ or ‘Ready-to-Consent’ Populations?: Informed Consent and the Limits of Subject Autonomy. Qualitative Inquiry 13 (6): 875-894.
Fisher, Jill A. (2007) Coming Soon to a Physician Near You: Medical Neoliberalism and Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials. Harvard Health Policy Review 8 (1): 61-70.
Fisher, Jill A. (2007) Governing Human Subjects Research in the USA: Individualized Ethics and Structural Inequalities. Science & Public Policy 34 (2): 117-126.
Fisher, Jill A. (2006) Co-ordinating ‘Ethical’ Clinical Trials: The Role of Research Coordinators in the Contract Research Industry. Sociology of Health and Illness 28 (6): 678-694.
Reprinted in Raymond G. DeVries, Leigh Turner, Charles L. Bosk, Kristina Orfali (Eds) (2007). The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences (pp. 13-29). Blackwell.
Fisher, Jill A. (2006) Procedural Misconceptions and Informed Consent: Insights from Empirical Research on the Clinical Trials Industry. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 16 (3): 251-268.
Fisher, Jill A. (2006) Playing Patient, Playing Doctor: Munchausen Syndrome, Clinical S/M, and Ruptures of Medical Power. Journal of Medical Humanities 27 (3): 135-149.
Fisher, Jill A. (2006) Investigating the Barons: Narrative and Nomenclature in Munchausen Syndrome. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 49 (2): 250-262.
Fisher, Jill A. (2002)Tattooing the Body, Marking Culture. Body & Society 8 (4): 91-107.
Book Chapters, Commentaries, & Encyclopedia Entries
Fisher, Jill A. (2011) “Gendering Science: Contextualizing Historical and Contemporary Pursuits of Difference.” In J.A. Fisher (Ed.), Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine (pp. 1-23). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Fisher, Jill A. & Lorna M. Ronald (2008) “Direct-to-Consumer Responsibility: Medical Neoliberalism in Pharmaceutical Advertising and Drug Development.” In S.M. Chambré & M. Goldner (Eds.), Patients, Consumers and Civil Society (Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 10) (pp. 29-51). Brighton, UK: Emerald Publishing.
Monahan, Torin & Jill A. Fisher (2008) Scanning the Future of Hospital Radio-Frequency Identification Systems. Hospital Information Technology Europe 1 (1): 44-45.
Fisher, Jill A. (2008) “Ethics and Clinical Trials.” In S. Restivo and P.H. Denton (eds.), Battleground: Science and Technology (pp. 140-143). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Fisher, Jill A. (2006) “Indoor Positioning and Digital Management: Emerging Surveillance Regimes in Hospitals.” In T. Monahan (Ed), Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life (pp. 77-88). New York: Routledge.
Fisher, Jill A. (2005) “Human Subjects in Medical Experiments.” In S. Restivo (ed.), Science, Technology, and Society (pp. 195-201). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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| Presentations |
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2011 Presented “‘Your Health is Your Wealth’: The Paid Participation of Healthy Volunteers in Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials” at American Sociological Association Conference held in Las Vegas, August 2011.
2011 Presented “‘You’ve Gotta Be a Soldier’: Experiences of the ‘Professional Lab Rat’ in Pharmaceutical Studies” at Political Sociology of Science and Technology Conference in Troy, NY, April 2011.
2010 Presented “‘Healthy Normals,’ Subjects of Investigational Pharmaceuticals.” at Human Sciences, Human Subjects - Max Planck-University of Chicago Workshop, University of Chicago, April 2010.
2009 Presented “Bleeding and Feeding: Unpacking the Banality of Healthy Human Testing of Investigational Pharmaceuticals” at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference held in Washington, D.C., October 2009.
2009 Presented “‘The money will win sometimes, and ethics will win sometimes’: Physicians' Construction of Ethics in Pharmaceutical Research ” at Society for Medical Anthropology in New Haven, CT, September 2009.
2008 Presented “Recruiting (Neoliberal) Subjects for U.S. Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials” at American Anthropological Association Conference held in San Francisco, November 2008.
2008 Presented “Nurses as an "Organizational Problem": Managerial Regimes of Surveillance in Hospitals” at National Women’s Studies Association Conference in Cincinnati, June 2008.
2007 Presented “Entrepreneurial Agents or Pharmaceutical Emissaries: Private Practice Physicians and Contract Research” at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference held in Montreal, October 2007.
2007 Presented “Practicing Research Ethics: Private-Sector Physicians & Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials” at American Sociological Association Conference held in New York City, August 2007.
2007 Presented “‘Oh, that sounds like the drug we tested!’: Clinical Trials and the Communication of Pharmaceutical Results” at Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Conference held in New York City, August 2007.
2007 Presented “Coming Soon to a Physician Near You: Medical Neoliberalism and Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials” at Experimental Systems, States, and Speculations Conference held in Irvine, CA, April 2007.
2007 Presented “Re-inscribing Gender within New Modes of Medical Expertise: The Physician-Coordinator Relationship in the Clinical Trials Industry” at Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies (FEMMSS) Conference held in Tempe, AZ, February 2007.
2006 Presented “Keeping it Clean: The Role of Pharmaceutical Monitors in the Clinical Trials Industry” at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference held in Vancouver, BC, November 2006.
2006 Presented “Creating “Ready-to-Recruit” Populations: Medical Neoliberalism in Global Pharmaceutical Drug Development” at International Sociological Association’s World Congress of Sociology held in Durban, South Africa, July 2006.
2005 Presented “Translating Participation into Pharmaceutical ‘Results’: Manifestations of Hegemony in the Privatization of Clinical Trials” at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference held in Pasadena, CA, October 2005.
2005 Co-organized two-panel stream (with Lorna Ronald): “The Global Commodification and Privatization of Healthcare” at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference held in Pasadena, CA, October 2005.
2005 Presented “Medical Research for Hire: Gender and the Privatization of Clinical Trials” at American Sociological Association Conference held in Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
2004 Presented “Medical Research for Hire: The Privatization of the Clinical Trials Industry” at Northeast Regional Medical Anthropology Conference held in Montreal, Canada, April 2004.
2003 Presented “Clinical Problems and their Corporate ‘Solutions’: The Rise of Auxiliary Professions in the Clinical Trial Industry” at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference held in Atlanta, GA, October 2003.
2003 Presented “Accruing Bodies for Profit: An Analysis of the Corporatization of Biomedical Research on Human Subjects” at Vital Politics Conference held in London, England, September 2003.
2001 Presented “Naming Names and Clinical S/M: The Politics of Biomedical Classification” at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference held in Cambridge, MA, November 2001.
2001 Presented “Exhuming the Baron: Medical Narratives of Munchausen Syndrome” at Society for Literature and Science (SLS) Conference held in Buffalo, NY, October 2001.
2001 Chaired panel “Manufacturing the Real: Discursive Topographies of Power in Science and Technology” at Society for Literature and Science (SLS) Conference held in Buffalo, NY, October 2001.
2000 Presented “Spurious Conflicts: An Analysis of the Stem Cell Research Debate” at Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference held in Vienna, Austria, September 2000.
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Pharmaceuticals, Politics & Culture
Women & Contemporary Society
Gender, Science, & Technology (Graduate Seminar)
All About Feminism
(En)Gendering Science and Technology
Critical Concepts of Gender (Graduate Seminar)
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| Policy Experience |
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1998 Women’s Health Law Clerk, National Partnership for Women and Families, Washington, DC.
1997 Research Assistant, Unit 149: Epidemiological Research on Women’s and Children’s Health, Institut Nationale de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Paris, France.
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| Awards |
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2010 Medical Research for Hire selected for Author Meets Critics Session at the American Sociological Association Conference held in Atlanta, GA, August 2010.
2004 Selected as a recipient of the Founders Award of Excellence for recognition of academic achievement and campus leadership at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
2003-2004 Awarded a graduate scholarship from Delta of Connecticut Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for dissertation research.
1999-2003 Received full tuition and stipend package from the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to support pursuit of the MS and PhD.
2002 Awarded level of distinction on Science Studies Field Examination as part of the doctoral requirements in Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Summer 2002.
1998 Awarded the Jane W. Torrey Prize for the study of social issues at Connecticut College, April 1998.
1998 Awarded the Esther Cary Prize for excellence in French at Connecticut College, April 1998.
1998 Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the National Honor Society for undergraduates, at Connecticut College, May 1998.
1997 Awarded the Nelly K. Murstein Prize for achievement in French at Connecticut College, April 1997.
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2009-2012 Member of Editorial Committee for the Vanderbilt University Press.
2007 Member of the program committee for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science.
2007-2008 Lead organizer of colloquia, lecture, and brown bags. Women & Gender Studies, Arizona State University.
2007-2008 Member of the Advisory Committee. Women & Gender Studies, Arizona State University.
2007-2008 Elected member of the Research Awards Committee. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University.
2006 Member of the Implementation Committee for the Science and Society Requirement, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University.
2006- Member of Curriculum Committee. Women & Gender Studies. Arizona State University.
2006 Organizer of faculty brown bag series (“enLIGHTeNING Lunches”). Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University.
2005-2006 Steering Committee, Science and Technology Policy and Societal Inequity: A Research Workshop. Consortium for Science, Policy, & Outcomes, Arizona State University.
2005- Member of Personnel Advisory Committee. Women & Gender Studies. Arizona State University.
2002-2003 Graduate Representative to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Graduate Council, Liaison to the Student Health Advisory Committee.
2001-2003 Editor of Facts & Artifacts, Newsletter of Science & Technology Studies Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
2000-2001 Graduate student representative on Science & Technology Studies Department Graduate Committee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
2000 Member of Faculty Search Committee, Science & Technology Studies Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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| Societies |
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American Sociological Association
(Sections: Science, Knowledge, and Technology; Medical Sociology; Sex & Gender; and Sociology of Mental Health)
International Sociological Association
National Women’s Studies Association
Society for Social Studies of Science
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