Carol Heimer Explained
Carol Anne Heimer (born 1951) is Professor of Sociology Emerita at Northwestern University and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. She is known for her research on the sociology of risk and responsibility, and on the connections between regulation, ethics, and law in medical practice.[1] As of November 2023, Heimer became the editor of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
Career and personal life
Heimer received her B.A. from Reed College (1973), and her M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1981) from the University of Chicago.[2] [3] Her dissertation committee included Charles Bidwell, Edward Laumann, Paul Hirsch, Donald Levine, and Michael Schudson. Her dissertation was later printed as Reactive Risk and Rational Action (1985).[4]
Heimer married prominent sociologist Arthur Stinchcombe[5] and with him co-authored the essay "Love and irrationality: It's got to be rational to love you because it makes me so happy" (1980)[6] [7] and the books Crime and punishment - changing attitudes in America (1980)[8] and Organization theory and project management: administering uncertainty in Norwegian offshore oil (1985).[9]
Heimer's book Reactive Risk and Rational Action (1985) examined issues of fixed risk and reactive risk and their implications for policy-making in all areas of social life. Her choice of insurance as a model that could have broader application was hailed as "brilliant" by reviewer Margaret Levi. The book was reprinted in 2020 as part of UC Press's Voices Revived program.[10]
Heimer's book For the Sake of the Children (1998), co-authored with Lisa Staffen, examined the organization of neonatal intensive care units in United States hospitals. The book won awards from both the Theory Section and the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.[2]
Heimer has examined the delivery of AIDS drugs in clinics in South Africa, Uganda, Thailand and the United States.[11] [12] She writes extensively on the connections between health and law.[13] [1]
As of November 2023, Heimer became the editor of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.[14]
Awards
- 1995: The Theory Section’s Theory Prize, American Sociological Association. for "Doing Your Job and Helping Your Friends: Universalistic Norms about Obligations to Particular Others in Networks,” pp. 143-164 in Networks and Organization: Structure, Form and Action. Harvard Business School Press. 1995[15]
- 2000, The Theory Section’s Theory Prize, American Sociological Association, for For the Sake of the Children, with Lisa Staffen. University of Chicago Press, 1998.[2] [15]
- 2000, The Medical Sociology Section's Eliot Freidson Publication Award, American Sociological Association. for For the Sake of the Children, with Lisa Staffen. University of Chicago Press, 1998.[16]
- 2002, Elected to membership, Sociological Research Association (SRA)[17]
Selected publications
Books
- Book: Stinchcombe . Arthur L. . Heimer . Carol Anne . Organization theory and project management: administering uncertainty in Norwegian offshore oil . 1985 . Norwegian Univ. Pr . Oslo . 978-8200076001. [1] [9]
- Book: Heimer . Carol A. . Reactive Risk and Rational Action Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts . 1985 . University of California Press . 9780520318458. [18] Reprinted 2020.[10]
- Book: Heimer . Carol A. . Staffen . Lisa R. . For the sake of the children: the social organization of responsibility in the hospital and the home . 1998 . Univ. of Chicago Press . Chicago . 9780226325040 .
Papers
Notes and References
- Web site: Carol Heimer . Sociology Department -- Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University .
- Web site: Carol A. Heimer, Research Professor . American Bar Foundation . 7 December 2023 . 11 May 2022.
- Web site: CAROL A. HEIMER Curriculum Vitae 2019 . Northwestern University . 7 December 2023.
- Book: Heimer . Carol A. . Reactive Risk and Rational Action: Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts . 28 April 2023 . Univ of California Press . viii . 978-0-520-31846-5 . en.
- News: Art Stinchcombe, Professor Emeritus and Legendary Sociologist, Dies at 85 . 7 December 2023 . Department of Sociology - Northwestern University . July 9, 2018 . en.
- Heimer . Carol A. . Stinchcombe . Arthur L. . Love and irrationality: It's got to be rational to love you because it makes me so happy . Social Science Information . August 1980 . 19 . 4–5 . 697–754 . 10.1177/053901848001900403 . 144646936 . en . 0539-0184.
- Web site: Carol A. Heimer . scholar.google.com . 7 December 2023.
- Book: Stinchcombe . A L . Adams . R G . Heimer . Carol A . Scheppele . K L . Smith . T W . Taylor . D G . Crime and punishment - changing attitudes in America . 1980 . Jossey-Bass Publishers . San Francisco . 9780875894720 . 1st.
- Healy . Kieran . The emergence of HIV in the U.S. blood supply: organizations, obligations and the management of uncertainty . Theory and Society . 1999 . 28 . 4 . 529–558 . 10.1023/A:1007011517612 . 154866497 .
- Book: Heimer . Carol A. . Reactive Risk and Rational Action: Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts . 7 December 2023 . en . September 2020. University of California Press . 9780520318458 .
- Heimer . Carol A. . 'Wicked' ethics: Compliance work and the practice of ethics in HIV research . Social Science & Medicine . 1 December 2013 . 98 . 371–378 . 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.10.030 . 23312301 . 0277-9536.
- Book: Cloatre . E. . Pills for the Poorest: An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa . 6 August 2013 . Springer . 978-1-137-31327-0 . en.
- Mark A. . Hall . Schneider . Carl E. . Shepherd . Lois L. . Rethinking Health Law . Wake Forest Law Review . 2 Jun 2006 . 41 . 341 . 905887 . en.
- Web site: Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Current Editorial Committee . Annual Reviews Directory . 4 December 2023.
- Web site: Theory Award Recipient History . American Sociology Association.
- Congratulations to 2000 Section Award Winners! . Footnotes . November 2000 . 28 . 8 . 6 .
- Web site: Members . Sociological Research Association.
- Levi . M. . Reactive Risk and Rational Action: Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts. By Carol Heimer, University of California Press, 1985. 273 pp. $30.00 . Social Forces . 1 December 1987 . 66 . 2 . 583–584 . 10.1093/sf/66.2.583 .
