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Jennifer Fishman, Ph.
D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of
Bioethics
Ethics of Continuing Medical Education Curricula
Anti-Aging Therapies in Biomedicine
Effect of Internet and Media Technologies on Marketing of Health
and Medical Information
e-mail: jrf17@cwru.edu
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Biosketch
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Bio
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Dr. Fishman received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University
of California, San Francisco. She got her BA and the University
of California, Berkeley and has worked as a lecturer at San
Francisco State University and California State University,
Hayward. She joined the faculty at Case in September 2003.
Dr. Fishman is interested in empirical bioethics research for
the study of new medical technologies. Her dissertation was
based on a sociological analysis of the emergence of "sexual
dysfunction" in the Viagra and post-Viagra age of biomedical,
bioetchnological, and pharmaceutical research. She traces the
contemporary scientific research trajectories of sexual dysfunction,
examining the ethics and contents of clinical trial methods,
the relationships among academic researchers, pharmaceutical
companies, and FDA guidelines, and the development of new diagnostic
categories to accommodate new drugs. She plans to study new
biomedical developments and technologies as they continue to
expand into more aspects of people's lives. Her past research
has focused largely on gender issues in biomedicine, with particular
interest in the conception of sex and gender differences in
biomedical research. Some potential projects include examining:
how the use of the internet and other media technologies have
changed the dissemination and marketing of health and medical
information; the ethics of continuing medical education curricula;
the increased focus on anti-aging therapies in biomedicine,
particularly those directed at peri-menopausal and menopausal
women.
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Recent Publications
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Fishman, JR. “Manufacturing Desire: The Commodification
of female sexual dysfunction.” Social Studies of Science.
34(2): 187-218. 2004.
Whitehouse, P and Fishman, JR. “Justice and the House
of Medicine.” American Journal of Bioethics. 4(2): 43-
45. 2004..
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Recent Activities
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“Tales from the Postdoctoral Field.” Studying Up
– the Problems and
Prospects of Multi-Sited Ethnography. Conference sponsored by
the National Science Foundation. University of California, Berkeley.
February 2, 2004.
”Opening Pandora’s Box: The Ethics and Context of
Research on Female Sexual Dysfunction.” Bioethics Grand
Rounds. Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Cleveland, Ohio. February
16, 2004.
”Manufacturing Desire: Viagra and the Remaking of Sexual
Dysfunction.” Invited Lecture, Science and Technology Studies
Program. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, British
Columbia. March 5, 2004.
”Opening Pandora’s Box: Viagra and the Remaking of
Female Sexual Dysfunction.” Obstetrics-Gynecology Grand
Rounds. Cleveland Clinic
Foundation. Cleveland, Ohio. April 12, 2004.
Finalist, Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Award.
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Contact Information
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Jennifer Fishman, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioethics
Case Western Reserve University
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Ethics Unit
McGill University
3647 Peel St.
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1X1
Canada
email: jrf17@cwru.edu
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