Carole Joffe, PhD
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Visiting Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)
Email: cejoffe@ucdavis.edu
Biosketch:
Carole Joffe, PhD, is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis, and a Visiting Professor at the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. Her research focuses on the social dimensions of reproductive health, with a particular interest in abortion provision. She is the author of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and after Roe v. Wade (Beacon Press) and The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Worker (Temple University Press 1986).
Some recent articles which have resulted from her research are "Abortion and Medicine: A Sociopolitical History,” A Clinician’s Guide to Surgical and Medical Abortion; “The Abortion Procedure Ban: Bush’s Gift to his Base,” Dissent; “A Descriptive Analysis of Abortion Training in Family Medicine Residency Programs,” (with Dalia Brahmi et.al), Family Medicine; “Integrating Abortion Training into Family Medicine Residency Programs” (with Christine Dehlendorf, et.al), Family Medicine; “Pro-life and Abortion Rights Movements,” (with Tracy Weitz), Encyclopedia of Sociology; “The Religious Right and the Reshaping of Sexual Policy: An Examination of Reproductive Rights and Sexuality Education,” Sexual Research and Social Policy and Sexual Panics, Moral Panics, NYU Press, 2009).
Dr. Joffe has a track record as a "public intellectual," publishing her work in both academic and lay media. She is currently completing a book, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars, to be published by Beacon Press in 2009.
Areas of Interest:
- Sociology of Reproductive Health and Reproductive Politics
- Sociological Aspects of Abortion Provision
- Welfare Reform and Reproductive Politics
Publications on PubMed
Updated January 2009