Joffe, Carole, PhD
Profesor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Visiting Professor, University of California, San Francisco
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 "Reactions to Medical Abortion Among Surgical Abortion Providers: An Early Snapshot," Family Planning Perspectives; "Will Medical Abortion Increase Access to Abortion Services? A Cautionary Tale," Journal of the American Medical Women's Association; "Medical Abortion in Social Context," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and, with Tracy Weitz, “Normalizing the Exceptional: Incorporating the ‘Abortion Pill’ into Mainstream Medicine," Social Science and Medicine. Dr. Joffe has a track record as a "public intellectual," publishing her work in both the academic and lay media.
At the Bixby Center, Dr. Joffe is working with colleagues in the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program on a number of projects related to expanding abortion provision.
Areas of Interest:
- Sociology of Reproductive Health and Reproductive Politics
- Sociological Aspects of Abortion Provision
- Welfare Reform and Reproductive Politics
Ongoing Research Projects:
Title: Becoming a medical abortion provider
Key Funder(s): Open Society Institute
Major Project Goal: To discover the processes by which physicians and advanced practice clinicians who do not provide surgical abortion commit to becoming providers of medical abortion.
Principal Investigator: C. Joffe
Project Director: Tracy Weitz
Updated November 2007