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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 1d

If your research interests include demography, mortality, aging, or immigrant health, this "Postdoc" position could be your next step!
University of Texas Medical Branch is hiring post doctoral fellows!
Deadline: November 7, 2025
🔗 careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311046"

https://careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311046"

ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 1d

"Are you are medical anthropologist? Fascinated by how culture, health, and care intersect? This one's for you! Vanderbilt is seeking a scholar in medical anthropology!
🔹 Assistant Professor — Vanderbilt University
🗓️ Deadline: October 26, 2025
🔗 careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311119"

https://careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311119"

ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 1d

"Is it important to say ""no"" to Weight-Loss Drugs? What does the paradox of the ideal patient-consumer and stratified biomedicalization reveal?
Check out this new article to discover the answers you are looking for!

📖 Authors: Jackson, Ni’Shele. 2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Saying no to weight-loss drugs: The paradox of the ideal patient-consumer and stratified biomedicalization

Discourse around the usage of weight-loss drugs (semaglutide, GLP-1 agonists, Ozempic, Wegovy) center around how people are precluded from access, a p…

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 1d

"Are you passionate about the sociology of aging and life course studies and looking for a job? This one is calling your name! UT Austin has an opening for you!
🔹 Assistant Professor — University of Texas at Austin
🗓️ Deadline: October 20, 2025
🔗 careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310995"

https://careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310995"

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 1d

If you have a specialization in how science, technology, and medicine shape everyday life and institutions; and you want to join academia? You are in luck! Georgia Institute of Technology is hiring!
Position -Associate Professor
Deadline: October 19, 2025
🔗 careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310986

Georgia Tech Associate Professor in Sociology of Science, Technology, or Medicine - Atlanta, Georgia job with Georgia Institute of Technology | 1310986

The School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in invites applications for a Associate Professor in Sociology.

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 1d

If you are curious to know how medical professionals other than physicians approach uncertainty in their training and work practices by using the concept of “work object. Read this article to fine more!
Authors: Markens & Woinska (2025)
Journal of Health & Social Behavior
doi.org/10.1177/0022...

At the Front Stage: Uncertainty as a Medical Work Object - Susan Markens, Marzena Woinska, 2025

In this article, we offer a novel exploration of how medical professionals other than physicians approach uncertainty in their training and work practices by us...

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JHSB @jofhsb.bsky.social · 4d

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay -> Martha Morales Hernandez explores the effects of immigration policies on mental health experiences of undocumented college students, and how they protect their mental health: bit.ly/3Ktqyd7
#NewPublication

@ucmerced.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social

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JHSB @jofhsb.bsky.social · Aug 19

How do restrictions of medical Cannabis programs affect the benefits of Cannabis use for their patients? Ryan T. Steel studies the Minnesota’s medical cannabis program in our June issue: bit.ly/45yRfE1

@miamiuniversity.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · Aug 13

(2/2) 💻How to gift:
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3️⃣ Select Medical Sociology + gift rate (student or nonstudent)
4️⃣ Complete purchase & share the discount code with your recipient

📅 Don't miss this chance to support & connect with our community!

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2025 ASA Election ResultsYoung and Calarco Elected President, Vice President of ASACommunity-Engaged Scholarship ToolkitExplore ASA's resource geared to

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · Aug 13

(1/2)🎁Give the Gift of Medical Sociology!

Help our section grow by purchasing a gift membership for a student or colleague through Sept 30, 2025. Membership connects sociologists to cutting-edge scholarship, news, and a vibrant professional network!

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Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 12

We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026:
www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

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Catherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Took home a couple of ASA book awards this week alongside the brilliant @lizchiarello.bsky.social 📚 at @asaskat.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social

#SpacesOnTheSpectrum (@columbiaup.bsky.social)
#PolicingPatients (@princetonupress.bsky.social)

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · Aug 12

And it’s a wrap for #ASA2025. Mark your calendars for #ASA2026, August 7–11, 2026, in New York City, with ASA President Shelley J. Correll’s theme “Disrupting the Status Quo: Putting Sociology to Work for a More Equitable Society.” https://bit.ly/ASANYC26

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · Aug 12

🎉Please join us in welcoming and celebrating the newly elected council members of the ASA Section on Medical Sociology! 🎉

We are so excited about the ideas, energy, and dedication they bring to our section and look forward to their leadership in the coming years!

#ASA #MedicalSociology #Sociology

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Carlo Sariego @carlosariego.bsky.social · Aug 12

Feeling inspired to get back on here after a really really fun #ASA2025 so making my obligatory “I am on the job market” post! I study the power politics of bodies, borders and babies w/ a current focus on trans reproduction. Read more at Carlosariego.com

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Kenzie Latham-Mintus @kenziemintusphd.bsky.social · Aug 12

We have a great set of @asadisability.bsky.social sessions this morning including this one! Make sure to stop by before you say goodbye to the Windy City #ASA2025

ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · Aug 12

Catch our final joint session co-sponsored with the Section on Disability in Society #MedSoc #ASAChicago #ReimaginingHealth

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · Aug 12

Catch our final joint session co-sponsored with the Section on Disability in Society #MedSoc #ASAChicago #ReimaginingHealth

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Rachel Rinaldo @rarinald.bsky.social · Aug 11

#Sociologists! Great opportunity for recent/soon-to-be PhDs at the University of Colorado Boulder. #ASA2025 www.colorado.edu/postdoctoral...

Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

Program OverviewThe University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) is enriched by scholars whose backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences reflect the broad range

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · Aug 11

Don't forget to fill out our Google Form to share your session highlights, photos, or announcements 👇

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#MedSoc #ASAChicago #ReimaginingHealth

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · Aug 11

Calling all students! Tomorrow is the Student Book Giveaway. Make room in your suitcases and make your way to the entrance of the Exhibit Hall, 8/12 at 12:30 p.m.

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Elaine Hernandez @emhernandez.bsky.social · Aug 11

4 in 10 pregnant patients and 1 in 4 people use Medicaid. Shifting access among such a large population will have implications for the health of the entire population (and the HC institutions we rely upon). A major population health topic for demographers to prioritize. #ASA2025

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · Aug 11

Today is Workshop Day! Plus a late session on Social Determinants of Health. #MedSoc #ASAChicago #ReimaginingHealth

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · Aug 10

No tips on our end, BUT we do have some overdue congratulations!

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Anna Kirkland @annakirkland.bsky.social · Aug 10

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Aug 10

"Civil rights are usually understood to be about voting, education, and employment, not health care."

Kirkland asks, "What do civil rights look like when refracted through the lens of American healthcare, a massive and complex web of public and private relationships, laws, regulations...?"

$HEALTH CARE CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE AMERICAN RIGHTS TRADITION This book analyzes civil rights in health care in the contemporary United States. But civil rights are usually understood to be about voting, education, and employment, not health care. Scholars of civil rights have mostly studied them in the workplace, theorizing how rights can assist social movement mobilization but also reinscribe inequalities and ratify ineffective organizational practices that fail to produce much social change.5 What do civil rights look like when refracted through the lens of American healthcare, a massive and complex web of public and private relationships, laws, regulations, institutions, professions, norms, and financial arrangements that comprises one-fifth of the US economy? What rights are there in US healthcare, anyway? What would a nondiscriminatory health benefit plan look like? We are famously a country that lacks an explicit right to health. And yet our US healthcare and welfare systems offer a range of entitlements, protections, rules, and supports for health insurance, so much so that Christina Ho argues that we already have some rights to health that we fail to see as true rights.6 So then what is a civil right in health? It turns out that seeing rights through health is different in important ways than seeing them through other contexts like employment.$

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · Aug 10

Remember, if you can't find a seat at tonight's #ASA2025 Awards Presentation & Presidential Address, 4:00–6:00 p.m., you can live stream it here: https://bit.ly/3TDl6Wl.

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