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Kristin Barker, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-3703
Phone: 541-737-5375
Fax: 541-737-5372
E-mail: Kristin.Barker@oregonstate.edu


Areas of Interest:

  • Sociology of Health and Medicine
  • Sociological Theory
  • Sociology of Knowledge
  • Professions
  • Gender and Feminist Theory
  • Document and Textual Analysis

Current Projects:

  • “Direct-to-Consumer Diagnostics”
  • "The Sociological Study of Illness-Based Electronic Support Groups (ESGs)."
  • "Mindfulness: The Self and Healing in Late-Modernity."

Brief Vita

Education:

  • Ph.D. - Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1993
  • M.S. - Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1987
  • B.S. - Sociology and Gerontology, Western Michigan University 1985

Recent Publications:

  • Barker, Kristin and Gary Tiedeman (editors). 2009. Haiku For Sociologists: Seventeen Syllable Gifts For the Student of Society. Mukilteo, WA: Basho Press (forthcoming).
  • Barker, Kristin. 2008. “Electronic Support Groups, Patient-Consumers, and Medicalization: The Case of Contested Illness.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 49(1):20-36.
  • Barker, Kristin. 2005. The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority and Women's Worlds of Pain. Temple University Press.
  • Barker, Kristin. 2003. "Birthing and Bureaucratic Women: 'Needs Talk' and the Definitional Legacy of the Sheppard-Towner Act." Feminist Studies 29(2): 333-355.
  • Barker, Kristin. 2002. "Self-Help Literature and the Making of an Illness Identity: The Case of Fibromyalgia Syndrome." Social Problems 49(3):279-300.
  • Barker, Kristin. 1998. "A Ship upon a Stormy Sea: The Medicalization of Pregnancy." Social Science and Medicine 47(8):1067-1076.
  • Barker, Kristin. 1998. "Women Physicians and the Gendered System of Professions: An Analysis of the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921." Work and Occupations 25(2):229-255.
  • Barker, Kristin. 1997. "Federal Maternal Policy and Gender Politics: Comparative Insights." Review Essay, Journal of Women's History 9(2):183-191.

Recent Grants

  • Barker, Kristin. "Virtual Communities and Contested Chronic Illness: An Exploration in Electronic Ethnography." Center for the Humanities Fellowship.
  • Barker, Kristin. "Electronic Self-Help and Mutual-Help Resources and Contested Chronic Illness: The Case of Fibromyalgia Syndrome." Faculty Release Time (FRT) Award, Oregon State University, Fall Term 2004.
  • Barker, Kristin. "Mindfulness: The Self and Healing in Late-Modernity." College of Liberal Arts Research Grant, Oregon State University, Spring Term 2004.

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