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3818
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277

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Alan Petersen is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and specializes in research at the intersection of social sciences, medicine, and health professions. Their work spans multiple main fields of study including Social Sciences, Medicine, and Health Professions, with subfields focused on General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, and Physiology.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Ethics in Clinical Research, Foucault, Power, and Ethics, Race, Genetics, and Society, Biomedical Ethics and Regulation, Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving, and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education.

They have contributed scholarly articles to several frequent publication venues, including:

  • Sociology of Health & Illness (3 publications)
  • Science Technology and Society (3 publications)
  • Social Science & Medicine (2 publications)
  • Journal of Applied Gerontology (1 publication)
  • Critical Public Health (1 publication)

Their recent papers include:

  • "'A platform for goodness, not for badness': The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information" (2022, Social Science & Medicine)
  • "Feeling less alone online: patients' ambivalent engagements with digital media" (2020, Sociology of Health & Illness)

Additional notable related papers (not authored by Petersen but relevant in related collaborative research) include:

  • "Artificial Intelligence in Long-Term Care: Technological Promise, Aging Anxieties, and Sociotechnical Ageism" (2023, Journal of Applied Gerontology)
  • "'I'm not an activist!': digital self-advocacy in online patient communities" (2020, Critical Public Health)
  • "The social stigma of loneliness: A sociological approach to understanding the experiences of older people" (2024, The Sociological Review)

Alan Petersen has collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Kiran Pienaar, Bárbara Barbosa Neves, Allegra Clare Schermuly, Alison Anderson, and Mor Vered. Their scholarly work also includes contributions to book publications, notably a title published by Edward Elgar Publishing: "Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine" (2023).

Petersen has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The new public health: Health and self in the age of risk

    Alan R. Petersen;Deborah Lupton

  • Foucault, Health and Medicine

    Alan R. Petersen;Robin Bunton

  • Unmasking the Masculine: `Men′ and `Identity′ in a Sceptical Age

    Alan R. Petersen

  • Biofantasies: genetics and medicine in the print news media.

    Alan Petersen

  • Foucault and the medicalisation critique

    Robin Bunton;Alan Petersen

  • Risk and the regulated self: the discourse of health promotion as politics of uncertainty

    Alan R. Petersen

  • Research on Men and Masculinities Some Implications of Recent Theory for Future Work

    Alan Robert Petersen

  • The Framing of Nanotechnologies in the British Newspaper Press

    Alison Anderson;Stuart Allan;Alan Robert Petersen;Clare Wilkinson

  • The New Genetics and the Public's Health

    Alan Robert Petersen;Robin Bunton

  • Consuming Health: the commodification of health care

    Saras Henderson;Alan Robert Petersen

  • Popular health, advanced liberalism and Good Housekeeping magazine

    Robin Bunton;Alan Petersen

  • The best experts: The narratives of those who have a genetic condition

    Alan Robert Petersen

  • Governmentality, Critical Scholarship, and the Medical Humanities

    Alan Robert Petersen

  • Securing our genetic health: engendering trust in UK Biobank.

    Alan Robert Petersen

  • The Body in question: A Socio-Cultural Approach

    Alan Robert Petersen

  • Biobanks : governance in comparative perspective

    Herbert Gottweis;Alan Petersen

  • Therapeutic journeys: the hopeful travails of stem cell tourists.

    Alan Robert Petersen;Kathryn Leigh Seear;Megan Jayne Munsie

  • Healthy living and citizenship: an overview

    Alan Petersen;Mark Davis;Suzanne Fraser;Joanne Lindsay

  • The New Public Health

    Alan Petersen;Deborah Lupton

  • Replicating Our Bodies, Losing Our Selves: News Media Portrayals of Human Cloning in the Wake of Dolly:

    Alan Robert Petersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Suzanne Fraser
Suzanne Fraser La Trobe University
Alex Collie
Alex Collie Monash University
Jan Wright
Jan Wright University of Wollongong
Deborah Lupton
Deborah Lupton University of New South Wales
Mark David McGregor Davis
Mark David McGregor Davis Monash University
Alan Bleakley
Alan Bleakley Plymouth University
Barbara Prainsack
Barbara Prainsack University of Vienna

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