Professor Alan Petersen
Tel: +61 3 990 55508
Fax: +61 3 990 52410
Email: Alan.Petersen@arts.monash.edu.au
Room W1109 11th Floor
Building 11 (Menzies) Clayton Campus
Research
Sociology of health and illness (particularly sociology of public health and health promotion); sociology of the body; sociology of risk; sociology of biotechnologies and bioethics; news media and the biosciences; contemporary social and political theory; the applications of Foucault's ideas, especially governmentality, to health and medical issues; construction of sex differences; gender and emotion.
Alan is currently undertaking a study 'Stem cell technologies: how scientists , policymakers, and other stakeholders engage with the public', in collaboration with Dr Kate Seear.
Publications
Books
Anderson, A., Petersen, A., Wilkinson, C. and Allan, S. (2009) Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills.
Petersen, A. (2007) The Body in Question: A Socio-Cultural Approach, Routledge: London and New York.
Petersen, A. (2004) Engendering Emotions. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke.
Petersen, A. & Bunton, R. (2002) The New Genetics and the Public’s Health, Routledge: London and New York.
Petersen, A., Barns, I., Dudley, J. & Harris, P. (1999) Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy, Routledge: London and New York.
Petersen, A. (1998) Unmasking the Masculine: 'Men' and 'Identity' in a Sceptical Age, Sage: London.
Petersen, A. and Lupton, D. (1996) The New Public Health: Health and Self in the Age of Risk, Allen & Unwin, Sydney and Sage, London.
Petersen, A.R. (1994) In a Critical Condition: Health and Power Relations in Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Forthcoming
Petersen, A. (2010) The Politics of Bioethics. Routledge: London.
Edited
Gottweis, H. and Petersen, A. (eds) (2008) Biobanks: Governance in Comparative Perspective. Routledge: London.
Petersen, A. and Wilkinson, I. (eds) (2008) Health, Risk and Vulnerability. Routledge: London.
Bunton, R. & Petersen, A. (eds) (2005) Genetic Governance: Health, Risk and Ethics in the Biotech Era. Routledge: London and New York.
Henderson, S. & Petersen, A. (eds) (2002) Consuming Health: The Commodification of Health Care, Routledge: London and New York.
Petersen, A. & Waddell, C. (eds) (1998) Health Matters: A Sociology of Illness, Prevention and Care, Allen & Unwin: Sydney and Open University Press: Buckingham.
Petersen, A. and Bunton, R. (eds) (1997) Foucault, Health and Medicine, Routledge: London and New York.
Waddell, C. and Petersen, A. (eds) (1994) Just Health: Inequalities in Illness, Care and Prevention. Churchill Livingston: Melbourne and Edinburgh.
Refereed journal articles (2005 to present)
Petersen, A. (2009) ‘The ethics of expectations: biobanks and the promise of personalised medicine’, Monash Bioethics Review, 28, 1: 5.1-5.12.
Petersen, A. and Seear, K. (forthcoming) ‘In search of immortality: the political economy of anti-aging medicine, Medicine Studies: International Journal for the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine & Allied Sciences.
Anderson, A. and Petersen, A. (forthcoming) ‘Shaping the ethics of an emergent field: scientists’ and policymakers’ representations of nanotechnologies’, International Journal of Technoethics.
Anderson, A., Petersen, A. and Allan, S. (forthcoming) ‘Politics of framing risk: nanotechnology in the news’, Journal of Risk Research.
Petersen, A., Anderson, Wilkinson, C. and Allan, S. (2008) 'Opening the black box: Scientists’ views on the role of the news media in the nanotechnology debate', Public Understanding of Science. (Published Online First 1 October 2008 http://pus.sagepub.com/cgi/rapidpdf/0963662507084202v1)
Petersen, A. and Anderson, A. (2007) 'A question of balance of blind faith?: scientists' and science policymakers' representations of the benefits and risks of nanotechnologies', NanoEthics, 1: 243-56.
Petersen, A. (2007) 'Biobanks' engagements: engendering trust or engineering consent?', Genomics, Society and Policy, 3, 1.
Petersen, A. (2007) 'Is the new genetics eugenic?: interpreting the past, envisioning the future', New Formations, 60: 79-88. (Special issue on eugenics), 60: 79-88.
Wilkinson, C., Anderson, A., Allan, S. and Petersen, A. (2007) 'From uncertainty to risk?: scientific and news media portrayals of nanoparticle safety', Health, Risk and Society, 9, 2: 145-157.
Gilbert, A., Lankshear, G. and Petersen, A. (2007) 'Older family carers' views on the future accommodation needs of relatives who have an intellectual disability', International Journal of Social Welfare, 16.
Petersen, A. (2006) ‘The genetic conception of health: is it as radical as claimed?’, Health, 10, 4: 481-500 (10th Anniversary Issue on ‘conceptions of health’)
Kokanovic, R., Petersen, A. and Klimidis, S. (2006) '"Nobody can help me...I'm living through it alone": experiences of caring for people with mental illness in ethno-cultural and linguistic minority communities', Journal of Immigrant Health, 8, 2, 125-135.
Petersen, A. (2006) 'The best experts: the experiences of those with genetic conditions', Social Science & Medicine, 63, 1: 32-42.
Regan de Bere, S. and Petersen, A. (2006) 'Out of the dissecting room: news media portrayals of human anatomy teaching and research', Social Science and Medicine, 63, 1: 76-88.
Petersen, A. (2005)'Securing our genetic health: engendering trust in UK Biobank', Sociology of Health & Illness, 27, 2, 271-292.
Petersen, A., Anderson, A. and Allan, S. (2005) ‘Science fiction/science fact: medical genetics in fictional and news stories’, New Genetics and Society, 24, 3: 337-353.
Anderson, A., Allan, S., Petersen, A. & Wilkinson, C. (2005) 'The framing of nanotechnologies in the British newspaper press', Science Communication, 27, 2: 1-21.