Carol Heimer
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Professor Areas of Interest: On Leave
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Professor; Ph.D. University of Chicago 1981. Areas of interest include organizations, sociology of law, medical sociology. Heimer is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. She has taught at the University of Arizona and had research appointments at Australian National University (Law Program in the Institute for Advanced Study), the Institute for Industrial Economics in Norway, and Stanford University. Her research has focused on the intersection of normative systems, on organizations, and on risk and uncertainty. She (together with Lisa Staffen) has recently published For the Sake of the Children (University of Chicago Press, 1998),a book on the social organization of responsibility in infant intensive care units. Other publications include Reactive Risk and Rational Action (University of California Press, a study of how insurers think about and manage risks and how those strategies are represented in other areas of social life), Organization Theory and Project Management (Norwegian University Press, a collection of papers with Arthur Stinchcombe), and papers on medical social workers (with Mitchell Stevens), on the sociology of risk, on institutional competitions inside organizations, and on universalism and particularism. Heimer is currently working on a book extending the arguments of her work on the social organization of responsibility in infant intensive care to other settings.
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1808 Chicago Ave., Room 105
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
Phone: (847) 491-7480
ABF: (312) 988-6556
Fax: (847) 491-9907
Office Hours: On Leave
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Law & Social Science Certificate
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| Current Courses: Fall Quarter 2007 | |
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| Courses Taught | |
| Sec. 20 (Fall 2005): Sociology of Medicine | Syllabus |
| 403 (Spring 2007) Field Methods | |
| Soc 476-0 Sec. 21 (Fall 2005): Special Topics Sociology of Medicine |
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