Cambrosio, Alberto - Sociology

Personal Information
First Name: 
Alberto
Last Name: 
Cambrosio
Department / Program: 
OTHER
Other: 
Social studies of medicine
University Affiliation: 
McGill University
Phone: 
5143984981
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Discipline: 
Sociology
Subject: 
Medicine
Geographical Region: 
Europe
North America
Time Period: 
19th and 20th Century
Current
Specific Area of Research: 
Cancer clinical trials; laboratory-clinical interactions; Material culture and regulation of biomedicine; network analysis of biomedical research; visualization and scientific imagery; science & technology studies; sociology of biomedicine
Academics
PHD Program: 
History and Sociology of Science
PHD University: 
University of Montreal
PHD Date: 
1984
Major Publications: 
2012 Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio, Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Style of Practice. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 424p. Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio, Biomedical Platforms. Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003 (paperback: 2006). Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating, Exquisite Specificity. The Monoclonal Antibody Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Margaret Lock, Allan Young and Alberto Cambrosio (Eds), Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies. Intersections of Inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio,
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S); European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST); International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB); History of Science Society (HSS); Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
Courses Taught: 
The Sociology of Medicine; Selected Topics in the Sociology of Biomedical Knowledge; Medicine and Society