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Michael Lynch is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in Arts and Humanities and Psychology. Their work spans several subfields including Social Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and History.

Their main research topics include:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Social Representations and Identity
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Pregnancy and Preeclampsia Studies

Michael Lynch has published several papers with notable works such as:

  • "Introduction to Harold Garfinkel's Ethnomethodological 'Misreading' of Aron Gurwitsch on the Phenomenal Field," 2021, published in Human Studies
  • "Cord blood metabolic markers are strong mediators of the effect of maternal adiposity on fetal growth in pregnancies across the glucose tolerance spectrum: the PANDORA study," 2020, published in Diabetologia
  • "Transposing Gestalt Phenomena from Visual Fields to Practical and Interactional Work: Garfinkel's and Sacks' Social Praxeology," 2022, published in Philosophia Scientae
  • "Improving systems of care during and after a pregnancy complicated by hyperglycaemia: A protocol for a complex health systems intervention," 2020, published in BMC Health Services Research
  • "Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?," 2022, published in Qualitative Research

The researcher is frequently published in venues including:

  • Human Studies
  • Philosophia Scientae
  • Qualitative Research
  • Diabetologia
  • BMC Health Services Research

Michael Lynch has coauthored works with several frequent collaborators. These include Clemens Eisenmann, Federica Barzi, Alex Brown, Kerin O'Dea, and Jeremy Oats, each appearing as a coauthor in multiple publications.

The scientist has contributed to academic publishing with at least one book, titled Teaching Modern Languages, scheduled for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science: A Study of Shop Work and Shop Talk in a Research Laboratory

    Michael Lynch

  • Art and artifact in laboratory science

    Michael Lynch

  • Representation in Scientific Practice

    Michael Lynch;Steve Woolgar

  • The handbook of science and technology studies

    Edward J. Hackett;Olga Amsterdamska;Michael Lynch;Judy Wajcman

  • Against reflexivity as an academic virtue and source of privileged knowledge

    Michael Lynch

  • Scientific practice and ordinary action : ethnomethodology and social studies of science

    Michael Lynch

  • I.1 The Work of a Discovering Science Construed with Materials from the Optically Discovered Pulsar

    Harold Garfinkel;Michael Lynch;Eric Livingston

  • Discipline and the Material Form of Images: An Analysis of Scientific Visibility:

    Michael Lynch

  • The externalized retina: Selection and mathematization in the visual documentation of objects in the life sciences

    Michael Lynch

  • Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

    Michael Lynch;Simon A. Cole;Ruth McNally;Kathleen Jordan

  • Sacrifice and the Transformation of the Animal Body into a Scientific Object: Laboratory Culture and Ritual Practice in the Neurosciences:

    Michael E. Lynch

  • Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited

    Catelijne Coopmans;Janet Vertesi;Michael Lynch;Stephen William Woolgar

  • Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action

    John A. Hughes;Michael Lynch

  • Laboratory Space and the Technological Complex: An Investigation of Topical Contextures

    Michael Lynch

  • Ontography: Investigating the production of things, deflating ontology:

    Michael Lynch

  • Temporal order in laboratory work

    Michael Lynch;Eric Livingston;Harold Garfinkel

  • Counting Things and People: The Practices and Politics of Counting

    Aryn Martin;Michael Lynch

  • Science and Technology Studies on Trial: Dilemmas of Expertise

    Michael Lynch;Simon Cole

  • Introduction: Sociological orientations to representational practice in science

    Michael Lynch;Steve Woolgar

  • Lists, field guides, and the descriptive organization of seeing: Birdwatching as an exemplary observational activity

    John Law;Michael Lynch

  • Essays on the Anthropology of Reason.

    M. Lynch;Paul Rabinow

  • The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science.

    Michael Lynch;Harry Collins;Trevor Pinch

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold Maurice Collins
Harold Maurice Collins Cardiff University
Judy Wajcman
Judy Wajcman London School of Economics and Political Science
Paul Rabinow
Paul Rabinow University of California, Berkeley
Steve Woolgar
Steve Woolgar University of Oxford
Trevor Pinch
Trevor Pinch Cornell University
Barbara Prainsack
Barbara Prainsack University of Vienna
Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell University of York
Sheila Jasanoff
Sheila Jasanoff Harvard University
John Law
John Law The Open University
Lucy Suchman
Lucy Suchman Lancaster University

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