Alexandra H Vinson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 284702 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alexandra H Vinson |
| NOMBRES | Alexandra H |
| APELLIDO | Vinson |
| FIRMA | VINSON A H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9062-7899 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Complexity and Challenges of Cross-Cover Care in Graduate Medical Education
Proposing a Research Agenda for Situational Judgment Tests in U.S. Medical School Admissions
Updating 'somatic culture' for the sociology of health professions education
The moral dimension of professional socialization in the premedical years
Special issue introduction
Cultural health capital and patient partner recruitment into healthcare improvement work
Autism 'From the Outside In
Peer Reviewed
Articulating the canon
An exciting development in the sociology of medical education has been its recent return as a distinct scholarly conversation in medical sociology. During the 1980s and 1990s, the sociology of medical education, an historically prominent subfield in sociology, seemed to disappear from the scholarly conversation despite ongoing development in this area. In this narrative review I describe this "missing period" of sociology of medical education, di…
A “Social Science of Solutions” for Healthcare
The Unites States healthcare system is a patchwork, and patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers must craft individual solutions to cope with gaps in the system. Sociological thinking is crucial for forming healthcare systems that provide high-quality care, control cost, and increase access without inheriting the flaws of existing systems. Recent work to develop a “social science of solutions” provides both motivation and a roadmap for prog…
Online student culture as site for negotiating assessment in medical education
Learning and Collaboration during Crisis
Research on crisis management focuses on pre-planning for disasters in order to understand potential barriers. However, one significant barrier to crisis response is that organizations may come together in unplanned configurations during crisis response. This means that significant opportunities exist for understanding the process by which individuals learn, collaborate, and create new systems during crises. In this case report, we present the ca…
Sensing defects
This paper explores how professional engineers recognize and make sense of product defects in their everyday work. Such activities form a crucial, if often overlooked, part of professional engineering practice. By detecting, recognizing and repairing defects, engineers contribute to the creation of value and the optimization of production processes. Focusing on early-career engineers in an advanced steel mill in the United States, we demonstrate …
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology
From 1940 to 1980, studies of medical education were foundational to sociology, but attention shifted away from medical training in the late 1980s. Recently, there has been a marked return to this once pivotal topic, reflecting new questions and stakes. This article traces this resurgence by reviewing recent substantive research trends and setting the agenda for future research. We summarize four current research foci that reflect and critically …
Clinical empathy as emotional labor in medical work
Surgical Identity Play
The anatomy lab has been studied by sociologists interested in professional socialization since the 1950s. This is because the act of dissecting a cadaver is thought to be foundational for both the student's medical knowledge and the development of the student's professional identity. In this paper, I revisit the anatomy lab both historically and ethnographically. Drawing on theoretical insights from the laboratory ethnography tradition within sc…
Lesson Plans for Future Research on Professional Socialization
Peer Reviewed
Short White Coats
This paper investigates the meanings medical students invest in their white coats and how these meanings shape students' strategic use of the white coat as a status symbol. During a four-year ethnography of medical education, I found that the white coat signified knowledgeability and was used to assert status. In interactions students policed their own and each other's status displays, a process I identify as an instance of status management in m…
Constrained collaboration
Countervailing powers constrain the authority and autonomy of the medical profession. One countervailing power is patient consumerism, a movement with roots in health social movements. Patient empowerment discourses that emerge from health social movements suggest that active patienthood is a normative good, and that patients should inform themselves, claim their expertise, and participate in their care. Yet, little is known about how patient emp…
Clinical empathy as emotional labor in medical work
Constrained collaboration
Countervailing powers constrain the authority and autonomy of the medical profession. One countervailing power is patient consumerism, a movement with roots in health social movements. Patient empowerment discourses that emerge from health social movements suggest that active patienthood is a normative good, and that patients should inform themselves, claim their expertise, and participate in their care. Yet, little is known about how patient emp…
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology
From 1940 to 1980, studies of medical education were foundational to sociology, but attention shifted away from medical training in the late 1980s. Recently, there has been a marked return to this once pivotal topic, reflecting new questions and stakes. This article traces this resurgence by reviewing recent substantive research trends and setting the agenda for future research. We summarize four current research foci that reflect and critically …
Short White Coats
This paper investigates the meanings medical students invest in their white coats and how these meanings shape students' strategic use of the white coat as a status symbol. During a four-year ethnography of medical education, I found that the white coat signified knowledgeability and was used to assert status. In interactions students policed their own and each other's status displays, a process I identify as an instance of status management in m…
Surgical Identity Play
The anatomy lab has been studied by sociologists interested in professional socialization since the 1950s. This is because the act of dissecting a cadaver is thought to be foundational for both the student's medical knowledge and the development of the student's professional identity. In this paper, I revisit the anatomy lab both historically and ethnographically. Drawing on theoretical insights from the laboratory ethnography tradition within sc…
Articulating the canon
An exciting development in the sociology of medical education has been its recent return as a distinct scholarly conversation in medical sociology. During the 1980s and 1990s, the sociology of medical education, an historically prominent subfield in sociology, seemed to disappear from the scholarly conversation despite ongoing development in this area. In this narrative review I describe this "missing period" of sociology of medical education, di…
Online student culture as site for negotiating assessment in medical education
Autism 'From the Outside In
Peer Reviewed
Constrained collaboration
Countervailing powers constrain the authority and autonomy of the medical profession. One countervailing power is patient consumerism, a movement with roots in health social movements. Patient empowerment discourses that emerge from health social movements suggest that active patienthood is a normative good, and that patients should inform themselves, claim their expertise, and participate in their care. Yet, little is known about how patient emp…
Short White Coats
This paper investigates the meanings medical students invest in their white coats and how these meanings shape students' strategic use of the white coat as a status symbol. During a four-year ethnography of medical education, I found that the white coat signified knowledgeability and was used to assert status. In interactions students policed their own and each other's status displays, a process I identify as an instance of status management in m…
Clinical empathy as emotional labor in medical work
Surgical Identity Play
The anatomy lab has been studied by sociologists interested in professional socialization since the 1950s. This is because the act of dissecting a cadaver is thought to be foundational for both the student's medical knowledge and the development of the student's professional identity. In this paper, I revisit the anatomy lab both historically and ethnographically. Drawing on theoretical insights from the laboratory ethnography tradition within sc…
Lesson Plans for Future Research on Professional Socialization
Peer Reviewed
Learning and Collaboration during Crisis
Research on crisis management focuses on pre-planning for disasters in order to understand potential barriers. However, one significant barrier to crisis response is that organizations may come together in unplanned configurations during crisis response. This means that significant opportunities exist for understanding the process by which individuals learn, collaborate, and create new systems during crises. In this case report, we present the ca…
Sensing defects
This paper explores how professional engineers recognize and make sense of product defects in their everyday work. Such activities form a crucial, if often overlooked, part of professional engineering practice. By detecting, recognizing and repairing defects, engineers contribute to the creation of value and the optimization of production processes. Focusing on early-career engineers in an advanced steel mill in the United States, we demonstrate …
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology
From 1940 to 1980, studies of medical education were foundational to sociology, but attention shifted away from medical training in the late 1980s. Recently, there has been a marked return to this once pivotal topic, reflecting new questions and stakes. This article traces this resurgence by reviewing recent substantive research trends and setting the agenda for future research. We summarize four current research foci that reflect and critically …
A “Social Science of Solutions” for Healthcare
The Unites States healthcare system is a patchwork, and patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers must craft individual solutions to cope with gaps in the system. Sociological thinking is crucial for forming healthcare systems that provide high-quality care, control cost, and increase access without inheriting the flaws of existing systems. Recent work to develop a “social science of solutions” provides both motivation and a roadmap for prog…
Online student culture as site for negotiating assessment in medical education
Articulating the canon
An exciting development in the sociology of medical education has been its recent return as a distinct scholarly conversation in medical sociology. During the 1980s and 1990s, the sociology of medical education, an historically prominent subfield in sociology, seemed to disappear from the scholarly conversation despite ongoing development in this area. In this narrative review I describe this "missing period" of sociology of medical education, di…
Special issue introduction
Cultural health capital and patient partner recruitment into healthcare improvement work
Autism 'From the Outside In
Peer Reviewed
Complexity and Challenges of Cross-Cover Care in Graduate Medical Education
Proposing a Research Agenda for Situational Judgment Tests in U.S. Medical School Admissions
Updating 'somatic culture' for the sociology of health professions education
The moral dimension of professional socialization in the premedical years
Sociology (13 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Empathy and Medical Education (8 obras) · Social science (8 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Medical education (6 obras) · Public relations (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras)