Publications & presentations

Publications

Petersen, A. & Pienaar, K. (forthcoming). Testing for life?: Regimes of governance in diagnosis and screening. Introduction to special issue of Science, Technology & Society.

Pienaar, K., Petersen, A. & Bowman, D. (2019). Matters of fact and politics: generating expectations of cancer screening. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 232, July 2019: 408-416, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.05.020

Petersen, A. (2019) The surgery furphy. Letter published in The Age, 2 April 2019. https://www.theage.com.au/national/the-politics-of-fear-vanstone-was-right-but-only-up-to-a-point-20190401-h1d1xz.html

Presentations

Pienaar, K., Petersen, A., & Bowman, D. (2019). The biopolitics of testing in healthcare: findings from an Australian study. The Sociological Association of Australia (TASA) Conference, Sydney, 25-28 November.

Pienaar, K., Petersen, A., Bowman, D & Derrick, S. (2018). Evidence-making in expert accounts of cancer screening: Views of Australian health professionals. Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Sydney, 29 Aug -1 Sept

Petersen, A. (2018). Expectations in healthcare testing: a sociological perspective. Roundtable workshop: Testing for life? The sociology of diagnosis and screening, Prato, Italy, 13-15 June.

Pienaar, K., Petersen, A., Bowman, D & Derrick, S. (2018). Medical optimism, evidence and the production of scientific ‘facts’: An analysis of Australian breast and cervical cancer screening policies. Roundtable workshop: Testing for life? The sociology of diagnosis and screening, Prato, Italy, 13-15 June.

Derrick, S. (2018). Diagnostic testing and screening in Australia: An historical overview and initial classification system. Roundtable workshop: Testing for life? The sociology of diagnosis and screening, Prato, Italy, 13-15 June.

Pienaar, K., Petersen, A., Bowman, D & Derrick, S. (2018). How the construction of facts may shape expectations in healthcare testing: An analysis of breast and cervical screening policies in Australia.  European Society for Health and Medical Sociology Conference, Lisbon, 6-8 June.

Pienaar, K., Petersen, A., & Bowman, D. (2017). Medical optimism, evidence and the production of scientific facts: a sociological analysis of Australian cancer screening policies. The Sociological Association of Australia (TASA) Conference, Perth, 27-30 November.