Carole Joffe, PhD
Professor, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, UCSF
Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)
Professor Emerita, Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Email: joffec@obgyn.ucsf.edu
Biosketch:
Carole Joffe, PhD, is a professor at the UCSF Bixby Center's Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) Program and a professor of sociology emerita at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on the social dimensions of reproductive health, with a particular interest in abortion provision. In January 2010, Dr. Joffe’s book, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us, was published by Beacon Press. Besides writing for an academic audience, she also writes frequently for the general public on the topics of reproductive health and reproductive politics. In 2010, Dr. Joffe received the Irwin Cusher Lectureship by the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals. In 2006, Dr. Joffe was awarded the Public Service Award by the Academic Senate of the University of California, Davis.
Recent publications include "Abortion and Medicine: A Sociopolitical History," in M. Paul, ed., The Management of Abnormal and Unintended Pregnancy and "The Religious Right and the Reshaping of Sexual Policy: An Examination of Reproductive Rights and Sexuality Education," in Sexual Research and Social Policy, Winter 2007 (with Diane di Mauro). She is the author of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and after Roe v. Wade (Beacon Press, 1995) and The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers (Temple University Press, 1986). Dr. Joffe received her BA from Brandeis University and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Areas of Interest:
- Sociology of Reproductive Health and Reproductive Politics
- Sociological Aspects of Abortion Provision
- Welfare Reform and Reproductive Politics
Publications on PubMed
Updated May 2012