Carol A. Heimer
Research Professor
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- 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
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“Old Inequalities, New Disease: HIV/AIDS in Sub-
Saharan Africa”
- Annual Review of Sociology
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“Regulating Creativity: Research and Survival in the
IRB Iron Cage”
- Northwestern University Law Review
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“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