Associate Professor of Sociology Graduate Program Director Email: afigert@luc.edu

Anne Figert came to Loyola University Chicago in 1991 after completing her Ph.D. at Indiana University at Bloomington. Her research interests include health, medicine, sociology of science, and gender.

Much of Professor Figert's writing has been published in books and journals relating to framing of women's health issues, scientific authority, and teaching sociology. She has also been actively involved in community based research with HIV/AIDS organizations.

Some Recent Publications

2010   “The Consumer Turn in Medicalization: Future Directions with Historical Foundations” in The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness and
           Healing: Blueprint for the 21st Century, Bernice Pescosolido, Jack Martin, Jane McLeod and Anne Rogers (eds.) NY: Springer Publishing.

2010   “White Coats: The Shape of Scientific Authority and its Relationship to Religion and Religious Authority” in P.Jung and A. Vigen (eds.) Christianity,
          Gender, and Human Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, University of Illinois Press.

2010   “Gender and the Medicalization of Healthcare” (with Susan Bell) in the Handbook of  Gender and Healthcare, edited by Ellen Kuhlmann and Ellen
          Annandale, New York:  Palgrave Publishing.

2009   “HIV and HIV Disease” in S. Burch (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of American Disability History. New York: Facts on File.

2008   Christine George, Anne Figert, Jennifer Chernega, Sarah Stawiski and Arturo  Bendixen, “Connecting Fractured Lives to a Fragmented
          System: Process Evaluation Report of Chicago Housing for Health Partnership” in Research Opportunities  International, vol 27, no. 2. 

Books

Building Community: Social Science in Action. edited with Phil Nyden, Mark Shibley and Darryl Burrows. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. 1997

Women and the Ownership of PMS: The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. 1996

Current Research on Occupations and Professions , volume 9 "Getting Down to Business" (co-edited with Helena Lopata), Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc. 1996

Teaching Publications

"A Handbook for Teaching Medical Sociology". Distributed by the American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center (edited with Bernice A. Pescosolido and Gregory Weiss). 1997

"The Sociology of AIDS: Six Lectures and Materials for Instructors and Students." A White Papers Series distributed by the American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center, (edited with Bernice A. Pescosolido and Eric R. Wright). 1991a

"A Handbook for Teaching Medical Sociology". Distributed by the American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center, (edited with Bernice A. Pescosolido, Carol A. Boyer, Ann Dill and Eric R. Wright). 1991b