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.
Publications
Books
- Anderson, A., Petersen, A., Wilkinson, C. and Allan, S. (In press) (2008) Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills.
- Gottweis, H. and Petersen, A. (eds) (2008) Biobanks: Governance in Comparative Perspective, Routledge: London and New York.
- Petersen, A. and Wilkinson, I. (eds) (2008) Health, Risk and Vulnerability, Routledge: London and New York.
- Petersen, A. (2007) The Body in Question: A Socio-Cultural Approach, Routledge: London and New York.
- Bunton, R. & Petersen, A. (eds) (2005) Genetic Governance: Health, Risk and Ethics in the Biotech Era. 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.
- Henderson, S. & Petersen, A. (eds) (2002) Consuming Health: The Commodification of Health Care, 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. & Waddell, C. (eds) (1998) Health Matters: A Sociology of Illness, Prevention and Care, Allen & Unwin: Sydney and Open University Press: Buckingham.
- Petersen, A. (1998) Unmasking the Masculine: 'Men' and 'Identity' in a Sceptical Age, Sage: London.
- Petersen, A. and Bunton, R. (eds) (1997) Foucault, Health and Medicine, Routledge: London and New York.
- 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
- Waddell, C. and Petersen, A. (eds) (1994) Just Health: Inequalities in Illness, Care and Prevention. Churchill Livingston: Melbourne and Edinburgh.
Forthcoming
- Petersen, A. (2008) The Politics of Bioethics. Routledge: London.
Refereed journal articles (1996 to present)
- Petersen, A., Anderson, Wilkinson, C. and Allan, S. (In press) 'Opening the black box: Scientists’ views on the role of the news media in the nanotechnology debate', Public Understanding of Science.
- 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.
- Petersen, A. (2003) 'Governmentality, critical scholarship and the medical humanities', Journal of Medical Humanities, 24, 3/4, 187-201.
- Petersen, A. (2003) 'Theorizing masculinities: "men's studies" and the politics of knowledge', Men and Masculinities, 5, 3, 54-69.
- Petersen, A. (2002) ‘Replicating our bodies, losing our selves: news media portrayals of human cloning in the wake of Dolly, Body & Society, 8, 4, 71-90.
- Petersen, A. (2001) 'Biofantasies: genetics and medicine in the print news media', Social Science and Medicine, 52, 8, 1255-1268.
- Larsen, A-C. & Petersen, A. (2001) 'Personal harms and human rights: rethinking responses to domestic violence in Australian indigenous communities', The Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 23, 2: 1-14.
- Petersen, A. (1999) 'Counselling the genetically "at risk": the poetics and politics of "non-directiveness"', Health, Risk and Society, 1, 3, 253-265.
- Petersen, A. (1999) 'The portrayal of research into genetic-based differences of sex and sexual orientation: a study of "popular" science journals, 1980 to 1997', Journal of Communication Inquiry, 23, 2, 163-182.
- Petersen, A. (1998) 'The new genetics and the politics of public health', Critical Public Health, 8, 1, 59-71.
- Petersen, A. (1998) 'Sexing the body: representations of sex differences in Gray's Anatomy, 1858 to the present', Body & Society, 4, 1, 1-15.
- Petersen, A. R. & Davies, D. (1997) 'Psychology and the social construction of sex differences in theories of aggression', Journal of Gender Studies, 6, 3, 309-20.
- Petersen, A.R. (1996) 'Risk and the regulated self: the discourse of health promotion as politics of uncertainty', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 32, 1, 44-57.
- Petersen, A. R. (1996) 'The "healthy" city, expertise, and the regulation of space', Health & Place: An International Journal, 2, 3, 157-65.