Teaching
Interests
Research
Interests
Educational
Background
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College of Natural &
Social Sciences
Elaine Draper
Associate Professor of Sociology
Director
and Adviser for Law
and Society Program
Internship and Service Learning Coordinator
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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Date
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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. |
| 2012 |
“Lawyers
and the Professional Project.” Law and Society Association
Annual Meeting, Honolulu
(June). |
| 2012 |
“Cultivating
Professionalism in a World of Divided Loyalties.” Pacific
Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, San Diego (March). |
| 2011 |
“Occupational
Health Nursing and the Quest for Professional Authority”
(with Joseph LaDou
and Dan J. Tennenhouse). New
Solutions
21 No. 1 (March): 57-88. |
| 2008 |
“Difficult
Reputations and the Social
Reality of Occupational Medicine.” New
Solutions 18 No. 3
(September): 299-316. |
| 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, California
J.D. 1999
University of
California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
B.A. Sociology and Women's Studies 1976
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
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