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Jill Fisher

Assistant Professor, Women & Gender Studies,  Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes

 
My work focuses on the politics of medicine in the United States, particularly the ways in which healthcare is being shaped by neoliberal ideologies. One research project examines the organization of pharmaceutical clinical trials, especially those drug studies that are conducted in private practices and for-profit research settings around the country. My book on the topic (Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials) will be published in 2008 by Rutgers University Press. A second research project explores the social and organizational implications for hospitals of new tracking technologies that monitor the real-time location of equipment, patients, and staff.

http://www.jillfisher.net