Whelan, Emma - Sociology

Submitted by root on Thu, 2010/06/24 - 4:52pm
Personal Information
First Name: 
Emma
Last Name: 
Whelan
Department / Program: 
OTHER
University Affiliation: 
Dalhousie University
Phone: 
9024946752
Email Address: 
emma.whelan@dal.ca
Area of Research
Discipline: 
Sociology
Subject: 
Medicine
Technology
Geographical Region: 
Canada
North America
Time Period: 
19th Century
20th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
Whelan's research is concerned with the sociology of medical knowledge with a particular focus on pain, standardization and classification practices in medicine, and gender. She also has longstanding interests in feminist science and technology studies, actor-network theory, and the work of Ludwik Fleck. Past projects included studies of expert and patient claimsmaking about endometriosis; the development of an international chronic pain classification system; and the responses of pain medicine specialists and pain activists to negative media representations of OxyContin and other opioids used to treat pain.
Academics
PHD Program: 
Sociology
PHD University: 
Carelton University
PHD Date: 
2000
Major Publications: 
Whelan, Emma, Asbridge, Mark & Haydt, Susan. 2011. “Representations of OxyContin in North American Newspapers and Medical Journals.” Pain Research & Management 16(4), 252-258. Whelan, Emma. 2009. “Negotiating science and experience in medical knowledge: Gynaecologists on endometriosis.” Social Science & Medicine 68(8), 1489-1497. Whelan, Emma. 2009. “How Classification Works, Or Doesn’t: The Case of Chronic Pain.” In David Byrne and Charles C. Ragin (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Case Based Methods (pp. 169-182). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Putting Pain to Paper: Endometriosis and the Documentation of Suffering. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 7(4):463-482. Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine (Review of: Creager, Angela N. H. [Ed]; Lunbeck, Elizabeth [Ed]; Schiebinger, Londa [Ed]). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 32(3):387-389.
Courses Taught: 
Sociology of Health, Illness and Gender and Health.