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| Janet Shim |
Email: Janet.Shim@ucsf.edu
Telephone: (415) 514-9392
Janet Shim, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging and Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
She received her Master in Public Policy at Harvard University and her PhD in Sociology at UCSF. Dr. Shim's research interests include aging and life extension practices, racial, class, and gender inequalities in health, and the genetics of Alzheimer's disease. Ongoing research includes a sociological examination of epidemiology, specifically how epidemiologists conceptualize and use race, socioeconomic status, and sex/gender in their work, and how lay people think about the effects of such social differences for their health.
Dr. Shim is also currently working with Sharon Kaufman on a qualitative study of the use of life-prolonging medical technologies among older persons, to understand how physicians, patients and families make decisions about employing such interventions, and the social, cultural, and ethical implications of conceptions of risk, old age, and expectations of medicine in late life.
She is also Co-Investigator on a comparative study, between the U.S. and Canada, of how first-degree relatives of those diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease think about emergent genetic knowledge, the benefits and hazards of genetic testing, and aging and health promotion in the context of genetic risk.
Title: Old Age, Life Extension and Geriatrics
Project Period: 9/30/2002-8/31/2006
Funding Agency: NIA/NIH
Description: The goals of this four-year qualitative
anthropological study is to (1) investigate how physicians, patients
age 70 and over, and their families make decisions regarding the use
of life-extending medical procedures (cardiac bypass, angioplasty
and stent; kidney and liver transplant; and renal dialysis), and how
they each respond to those procedures; and (2) identify
socio-cultural issues of relevance to physicians and to society
regarding the growing use of life-extending medical procedures on
elderly patients.
Title: Genetic Testing for Alzheimer's Disease in Canada and the U.S.: A
Comparative Study of Meanings of Risk, Aging, and Normalcy
Project Period: 1/1/05-12/31/06 (Co-Investigator)
Funding Agency: Canadian Institute for Health Research
Description: This project examines how genetic relatedness to
a person with Alzheimer's disease influences their sense of self,
their conceptions of normal aging and risk, their perceptions of the
utility of genetic knowledge, and their health practices.
Title: The
Governance of “Difference”: Constructions of Race, Class, and Gender
in Accounts of Cardiovascular Risk
Project Period: 5/1/01-4/30/02
Funding Agency: NSF
Description: This project investigated how social differences
of race, class, and gender are conceptualized and understood to
affect cardiovascular health by epidemiologists and by lay people
diagnosed with heart disease or hypertension.
In press Shim, J.K., A.J. Russ, and S.R. Kaufman. Risk, Life Extension, and the Pursuit of Medical Possibility. Sociology of Health and Illness.
In press Kaufman, S.R., J.K. Shim, and A.J. Russ. Old Age, Life Extension, and the Character of Medical Choice. Journal of Gerontology, Social Sciences.
In press Kaufman, S.R., A.J. Russ, and J.K. Shim. Aged Bodies and Kinship Matters: The Ethical Field of Kidney Transplant. American Ethnologist.
2005 Shim, J.K. Constructing ‘Race' Across the Science-Lay Divide: Racial Formation in the Epidemiology and Experience of Cardiovascular Disease. Social Studies of Science, 35(3): 405-36.
2005 Russ, A.R., J.K. Shim, and S.R. Kaufman. ‘Is There Life on Dialysis?': Time and Aging in a Clinically Sustained Existence. Medical Anthropology, 24: 297-324.
2004 Kaufman, S.R., J.K. Shim, and A.J. Russ. Revisiting the Biomedicalization of Aging: Clinical Trends and Ethical Challenges. The Gerontologist, 44(6): 731-8.
2004 Love, M.B., V. Legion, J.K. Shim, C. Tsai, V. Quijano, and C. Davis. CHWs Get Credit: A 10-Year History of the First College-Credit Certificate for Community Health Workers in the United States. Health Promotion Practice, 5(4): 418-28.
2004 Clarke, A.E., J.K. Shim, L. Mamo, J.R. Fosket, and J.R. Fishman. Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine. In The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, 6th ed., edited by Peter Conrad. New York: St. Martin's Press.
2003 Clarke, A.E., J.K. Shim, L. Mamo, J.R. Fosket, and J.R. Fishman. Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine. American Sociological Review, 68(2): 161-94.
2002 Shim, J.K. Understanding the Routinised Inclusion of Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Sex in Epidemiology: The Utility of Concepts from Technoscience Studies. Sociology of Health and Illness, 24(2): 129-50.
2000 Shim, J.K. Bio-power and Racial, Class, and Gender Formation in Biomedical Knowledge Production. Pp. 173-95 in Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Vol. 17, edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld. Stamford, CT: JAI Press.
2000 Clarke, A.E., J.R. Fishman, J.R. Fosket, L. Mamo, J.K. Shim. Technoscience and the New Biomedicalization: Western Roots, Global Rhizomes. Sciences Sociales et Sante, 18(2): 11-42 (in French).
2000, Clarke, Adele E., Jennifer R. Fishman, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo, Janet K. Shim. "Technoscience and the New Biomedicalization: Western Roots, Global Rhizomes." Sciences Sociales et Sante 18(2): 11-42 (in French).
See also the faculty profile page at http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/www/ffshimj.htm (website).
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Last revised: July, 2007; Apr. 2008
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