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Carol A. Heimer

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Research Professor

  • 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
  • 4th Floor
  • Chicago, IL 60611

Joint appointment

Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago

Research focus

Overlapping normative systems; currently researching the normative systems of law and medicine in the world of HIV medicine.

Projects

The Legal Transformation of Medicine: How Rules Work in the International World of HIV/AIDS
Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008
This book project braids together investigations of three transformative events - the “legalization” and internationalization of medicine and the advent of HIV/AIDS - in a study of how…

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Publications

“Old Inequalities, New Disease: HIV/AIDS in Sub- Saharan Africa”
Annual Review of Sociology
“Regulating Creativity: Research and Survival in the IRB Iron Cage”
Northwestern University Law Review
“Thinking About How to Avoid Thought: Deep Norms, Shallow Rules, and the Structure of Attention”
Regulation and Governance

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Presentations

What’s Law Got to Do with It? HIV and Public Health Law in Comparative Perspective
Nov 2007 panel participant
What’s Law Got to Do with It? HIV and Public Health Law in Comparative Perspective
Nov 2007 panel participant
Resilience in the Middle: International Medicine, HIV Clinics, and Traditional Patients
Aug 2007

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Professional Service & Recognition

  • Director, Legal Studies Program, Northwestern University
  • Member, Inaugural Editorial Board, Regulation and Governance
  • Member, Editorial Committee, book series on “Risk and Regulation,” Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics
  • Member, Special Committee on Bioethics and Law, American Bar Association