This volume traces the complicated paths through which physiological approaches to reproduction led to endocrinological approaches, creating along the way new technoscientific products from contraceptives to hormone therapies to new…

This collection reconceptualizes women’s health and healing, crossing disciplinary boundaries to rupture the biomedicalization of women’s bodies. It examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health…

This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research in an array of 20th-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon multidisciplinary perspectives to understand the processes through which scientific researchers…

Situational Analysis (SA) creates analytic maps of social processes and relationships identified using approaches pioneered in grounded theory. Creator of the method, award-winning sociologist Adele E. Clarke, with Rachel Washburn…

The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues.

Grounded theory is the most popular genre of qualitative research used in the health professions and is widely used elsewhere in the research world. In this volume, six key grounded…