Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Educational Background
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College of Natural & Social Sciences
Elaine Draper
Associate Professor
Director and Adviser for
Law and
Society Program
Office: King Hall A-3047
Phone: (323) 343-2299
FAX: (323) 343-5155
Email: edraper@calstatela.edu
Biographical Sketch
Brief Vita
TEACHING INTERESTS
Sociology of Law; Work and Occupations; Environmental Policy, Law, and Society; Medical Sociology and Bioethics; Sociology of the Professions; Sociology of Science and Technology; Organizations.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Law and Society; Health and Health Policy; Environmental and Workplace Hazards; New Genetic and Biomedical Technologies; Women in the Workplace; Bioethics; and Government and Corporate Policy.
The Company Doctor book information
Risky Business book information
Representative Professional Activities
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Publications/Presentations
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| 2005 (paper) 2003 (cloth) |
The Company Doctor: Risk, Responsibility, and Corporate
Professionalism. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. |
| 1991 |
Risky Business: Genetic Testing and Exclusionary Practices in
the Hazardous Workplace. New York: Cambridge University Press; recipient of
the Robert K. Merton Book Award, American Sociological Association, Sociology of
Science, Knowledge, and Technology, 1993; Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Book
Award, 1993; and 1992 C. Wright Mills Book Award Honorable Mention. |
| 2008 |
"Difficult Reputations and the Social Reality of Occupational
Medicine." New Solutions 18 No. 3 (September). |
| 2008 |
"Critical Social Issues and Policy Dilemmas in Workplace Genetic
Testing." American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, San Diego
(October). |
| 2007 |
"Walking the Tightrope of Conflicting Loyalties: The
Dilemmas of The Company Doctor." ACOEM eNews (January). |
| 2005 |
"Contested Environmental Hazards in Corporate Policymaking and
Public Disputes." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (August). |
| 2001 |
“Reproductive Hazards and Fetal Exclusion Policies After Johnson
Controls.” Stanford Law and Policy Review 12 (Winter) : 117-142. |
| 2000 |
“Competing Conceptions of Safety: High-Risk Workers or High-Risk
Work?” In Illness and the Environment, edited by Steve Kroll-Smith, Phil
Brown, and Valerie J. Gunter. New York: New York University Press. |
| 1999 |
“Preventive Law by Corporate Professional Team Players:
Liability and Responsibility in the Work of Company Doctors.” Journal of
Contemporary Health Law and Policy 15 (Spring): 525-607. |
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. Sociology 1985
 University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
J.D. 1999
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
B.A. Sociology and Women's Studies 1976
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
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