Carol Heimer

Carol Heimer
Born	1951
Alma mater	University of Chicago Reed College
Occupation	Sociologist
Employer	American Bar Foundation Northwestern University
Spouse(s)	Arthur Stinchcombe

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 . ^[2]

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. ^{[3] [4]} 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). ^[5]

Heimer married prominent sociologist Arthur Stinchcombe ^[6] 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) ^{[7] [8]} and the books Crime and punishment–changing attitudes in America (1980) ^[9] and Organization theory and project management: administering uncertainty in Norwegian offshore oil (1985). ^[10]

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. ^[11] The book was reprinted in 2020 as part of UC Press's Voices Revived program. ^[12]

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. ^{[3] [13] [14]}

Heimer has examined the delivery of AIDS drugs in clinics in South Africa, Uganda, Thailand and the United States. ^{[15] [16]} She writes extensively on the connections between health and law. ^{[17] [1]}

As of November 2023, Heimer became the editor of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science . ^[2]

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 ^[13]
• 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. ^{[3] [13]}
• 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. ^[14]
• 2002, Elected to membership, Sociological Research Association (SRA) ^[18]

Selected publications

Books

• Stinchcombe, Arthur L.; Heimer, Carol Anne (1985). Organization theory and project management: administering uncertainty in Norwegian offshore oil. Oslo: Norwegian Univ. Pr. ISBN   978-8200076001. ^{[1] [10]}
• Heimer, Carol A. (1985). Reactive Risk and Rational Action Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520318458. ^[11] Reprinted 2020. ^[12]
• Heimer, Carol A.; Staffen, Lisa R. (1998). For the sake of the children: the social organization of responsibility in the hospital and the home. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. ISBN   9780226325040.

Papers

• Heimer, Carol A. (1988). "Social Structure, Psychology, and the Estimation of Risk". Annual Review of Sociology. 14: 491–517. doi:10.1146/annurev.so.14.080188.002423.
• Heimer, Carol A. (1999). "Competing Institutions: Law, Medicine, and Family in Neonatal Intensive Care". Law & Society Review. 33 (1): 17–66. doi:10.2307/3115095. ISSN   0023-9216. JSTOR   3115095.
• Heimer, Carol A. (August 2001). "Cases and Biographies: An Essay on Routinization and the Nature of Comparison". Annual Review of Sociology. 27 (1): 47–76. doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.47. ISSN   0360-0572.
• Heimer, Carol A. (1 August 2007). "Old Inequalities, New Disease: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa". Annual Review of Sociology. 33 (1): 551–577. doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.31.041304.122203. ISSN   0360-0572.
• Heimer, Carol A.; Petty, Juleigh (2010). "Bureaucratic Ethics: IRBs and the Legal Regulation of Human Subjects Research". Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 6: 601–626. doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.093008.131454.
• Petty, JuLeigh; Heimer, Carol A. (2011). "Extending the rails: How research reshapes clinics". Social Studies of Science. 41 (3): 337–360. doi:10.1177/0306312710396402. ISSN   0306-3127. JSTOR   41301936. PMID   21879525. S2CID   22809359.
• Heimer, Carol A. (1 February 2012). "Inert facts and the illusion of knowledge: strategic uses of ignorance in HIV clinics". Economy and Society. 41 (1): 17–41. doi:10.1080/03085147.2011.637332. ISSN   0308-5147. S2CID   143777582.
• Heimer, Carol A. (1 December 2013). "'Wicked' ethics: Compliance work and the practice of ethics in HIV research". Social Science & Medicine. 98: 371–378. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.10.030. ISSN   0277-9536. PMID   23312301.
• Heimer, Carol A.; Tolman, Arielle W. (December 2021). "Between the constitution and the clinic: Formal and de facto rights to healthcare". Law & Society Review. 55 (4): 563–586. doi:10.1111/lasr.12577. ISSN   0023-9216. S2CID   244931586.
• Heimer, Carol A.; Davis, Clay (18 October 2022). "Good Law to Fight Bad Bugs: Legal Responses to Epidemics". Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 18 (1): 1–26. doi: 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-050420-113513 . ISSN   1550-3585.

References

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5. Heimer, Carol A. (28 April 2023). Reactive Risk and Rational Action: Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts. Univ of California Press. p. viii. ISBN   978-0-520-31846-5.
6. "Art Stinchcombe, Professor Emeritus and Legendary Sociologist, Dies at 85". Department of Sociology - Northwestern University. July 9, 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
7. Heimer, Carol A.; Stinchcombe, Arthur L. (August 1980). "Love and irrationality: It's got to be rational to love you because it makes me so happy". Social Science Information. 19 (4–5): 697–754. doi:10.1177/053901848001900403. ISSN   0539-0184. S2CID   144646936.
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9. Stinchcombe, A L; Adams, R G; Heimer, Carol A; Scheppele, K L; Smith, T W; Taylor, D G (1980). Crime and punishment–changing attitudes in America (1st ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. ISBN   9780875894720.
10. Healy, Kieran (1999). "The emergence of HIV in the U.S. blood supply: organizations, obligations and the management of uncertainty" (PDF). Theory and Society. 28 (4): 529–558. doi:10.1023/A:1007011517612. S2CID   154866497.
11. Levi, M. (1 December 1987). "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. 66 (2): 583–584. doi:10.1093/sf/66.2.583.
12. Heimer, Carol A. (September 2020). Reactive Risk and Rational Action: Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520318458 . Retrieved 7 December 2023.
13. "Theory Award Recipient History". American Sociology Association.
14. "Congratulations to 2000 Section Award Winners!" (PDF). Footnotes. 28 (8): 6. November 2000.
15. Heimer, Carol A. (1 December 2013). "'Wicked' ethics: Compliance work and the practice of ethics in HIV research". Social Science & Medicine. 98: 371–378. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.10.030. ISSN   0277-9536. PMID   23312301.
16. Cloatre, E. (6 August 2013). Pills for the Poorest: An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa. Springer. ISBN   978-1-137-31327-0.
17. Hall, Mark A.; Schneider, Carl E.; Shepherd, Lois L. (2 Jun 2006). "Rethinking Health Law". Wake Forest Law Review. 41: 341. SSRN   905887.
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