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Overview

Stefan Timmermans is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their academic work focuses primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with extensive contributions in Genetics, General Health Professions, Health, Clinical Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Race, Genetics, and Society
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Timmermans incorporate themes such as patient-physician communication and health inequities. Selected papers include:

  • The Engaged Patient: The Relevance of Patient-Physician Communication for Twenty-First-Century Health (2020), Journal of Health and Social Behavior
  • Technologies and Health Inequities (2020), Annual Review of Sociology

Other frequently appearing publication venues for Timmermans include:

  • Journal of Health and Social Behavior
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • British Journal of Sociology
  • Sociology of Health & Illness

Collaboration with other researchers is a significant element of Timmermans' work. Frequent co-authors include Aviad E. Raz, Pamela J. Prickett, Rebecca Kaufman, Tanya Stivers, and Iddo Tavory.

Best Publications

  • Theory Construction in Qualitative Research From Grounded Theory to Abductive Analysis

    Stefan Timmermans;Iddo Tavory

  • A World of Standards but not a Standard World: Toward a Sociology of Standards and Standardization *

    Stefan Timmermans;Stefan Timmermans;Steven Epstein

  • Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research

    Iddo Tavory;Stefan Timmermans

  • Standardization in Action: Achieving Local Universality through Medical Protocols:

    Stefan Timmermans;Marc Berg

  • The Promises And Pitfalls Of Evidence-Based Medicine

    Stefan Timmermans;Aaron Mauck

  • The practice of medical technology.

    Stefan Timmermans;Marc Berg

  • Handbook of medical sociology

    Chloe E. Bird;Peter Conrad;Allen M. Fremont;Stefan Timmermans

  • Patients-in-Waiting Living between Sickness and Health in the Genomics Era

    Stefan Timmermans;Mara Buchbinder

  • The Continued Social Transformation of the Medical Profession

    Stefan Timmermans;Hyeyoung Oh

  • Evidence-based medicine, clinical uncertainty, and learning to doctor.

    Stefan Timmermans;Alison Angell

  • Data Analysis in Qualitative Research

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  • Evidence-based medicine and the reconfiguration of medical knowledge

    Stefan Timmermans;Emily S Kolker

  • Two cases of ethnography: Grounded theory and the extended case method

    Iddo Tavory;Stefan Timmermans

  • Objectification, standardization, and commodification in health care: A conceptual readjustment

    Stefan Timmermans;Rene A. Almeling

  • Advancing Ethnographic Research through Grounded Theory Practice

    Stefan Timmermans;Ido Tavory

  • Orders and Their Others: On the Constitution of Universalities in Medical Work

    Marc Berg;Stefan Timmermans

  • Towards a sociology of disease.

    Stefan Timmermans;Steven Haas

  • Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR

    Stefan Timmermans

  • Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths

    Stefan Timmermans

  • Infrastructure and Organizational Transformation: Classifying Nurses’ Work

    Geoffrey C. Bowker;Stefan Timmermans;Susan Leigh Star

  • Death Brokering: Constructing Culturally Appropriate Deaths

    Stefan Timmermans

Frequent Co-Authors

Tanya Stivers
Tanya Stivers University of California, Los Angeles
David E. Sandberg
David E. Sandberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eric Vilain
Eric Vilain George Washington University
Chloe E. Bird
Chloe E. Bird RAND Corporation
Jonathan Gabe
Jonathan Gabe Royal Holloway University of London
Peter Conrad
Peter Conrad Brandeis University
Gery W. Ryan
Gery W. Ryan Kaiser Permanente
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker University of California, Irvine
Susan Leigh Star
Susan Leigh Star University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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