Alexandra Brewer
Biographic Data
| ID | 249983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Brewer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Brewer |
| SIGNATURE | BREWER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1910-2739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Clinical Advocacy: How Physicians Fight Back against Bureaucratic and Financial Pressures
The commercialization and corporatization of U.S. health care have intensified bureaucratic and economic constraints on clinical decision-making. Drawing on data from a 21-month ethnography of hospital-based clinicians, we introduce clinical advocacy as the often invisible work clinicians undertake to secure care that they judge medically appropriate when third parties external to the patient–provider relationship restrict medical practice. We id…
Flexible Austerity: Negotiating the Unequal Effects of Resource Shortages in Racialized Organizations
Resource shortages unfold unequally, often affecting the most socially disadvantaged people and exacerbating preexisting inequalities. Given that most resources are obtained through organizations, what role do organizational processes play in amplifying inequalities during shortages? I argue that workers engage in a practice I term flexible austerity. Flexible austerity describes how resource shortages become opportunities for decision-makers to …
Taking the Time: The Implications of Workplace Assessment for Organizational Gender Inequality
Gendered differences in workload distribution, in particular who spends time on low-promotability workplace tasks-tasks that are essential for organizations yet do not typically lead to promotions-contribute to persistent gender inequalities in workplaces. We examined how gender is implicated in the content, quality, and consequences of one low-promotability workplace task: assessment. By analyzing real-world behavioral data that include 33,456 i…
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work
How do clinicians manage the negative emotions that emerge when hospital patients are dissatisfied with their pain treatment? Drawing on a 21-month hospital ethnography, I show that clinicians view opioids as tools that can allow them to avoid engaging in emotional labor with dissatisfied pain patients. I detail two different strategies that clinicians pursued. Through permissive prescription, clinicians used intravenous (IV) opioids liberally to…
Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt? Performance Evaluations, Medical Errors, and the Production of Gender Inequality in Emergency Medical Education
Why do women continue to face barriers to success in professions, especially male-dominated ones, despite often outperforming men in similar subjects during schooling? With this study, we draw on role expectations theory to understand how inequality in assessment emerges as individuals transition from student to professional roles. To do this, we leverage the case of medical residency so that we can examine how changes in role expectations shape …
We were on our own: Mothers' experiences navigating the fragmented system of professional care for autism
Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt? Performance Evaluations, Medical Errors, and the Production of Gender Inequality in Emergency Medical Education
Why do women continue to face barriers to success in professions, especially male-dominated ones, despite often outperforming men in similar subjects during schooling? With this study, we draw on role expectations theory to understand how inequality in assessment emerges as individuals transition from student to professional roles. To do this, we leverage the case of medical residency so that we can examine how changes in role expectations shape …
We were on our own: Mothers' experiences navigating the fragmented system of professional care for autism
Taking the Time: The Implications of Workplace Assessment for Organizational Gender Inequality
Gendered differences in workload distribution, in particular who spends time on low-promotability workplace tasks-tasks that are essential for organizations yet do not typically lead to promotions-contribute to persistent gender inequalities in workplaces. We examined how gender is implicated in the content, quality, and consequences of one low-promotability workplace task: assessment. By analyzing real-world behavioral data that include 33,456 i…
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work
How do clinicians manage the negative emotions that emerge when hospital patients are dissatisfied with their pain treatment? Drawing on a 21-month hospital ethnography, I show that clinicians view opioids as tools that can allow them to avoid engaging in emotional labor with dissatisfied pain patients. I detail two different strategies that clinicians pursued. Through permissive prescription, clinicians used intravenous (IV) opioids liberally to…
Flexible Austerity: Negotiating the Unequal Effects of Resource Shortages in Racialized Organizations
Resource shortages unfold unequally, often affecting the most socially disadvantaged people and exacerbating preexisting inequalities. Given that most resources are obtained through organizations, what role do organizational processes play in amplifying inequalities during shortages? I argue that workers engage in a practice I term flexible austerity. Flexible austerity describes how resource shortages become opportunities for decision-makers to …
We were on our own: Mothers' experiences navigating the fragmented system of professional care for autism
Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt? Performance Evaluations, Medical Errors, and the Production of Gender Inequality in Emergency Medical Education
Why do women continue to face barriers to success in professions, especially male-dominated ones, despite often outperforming men in similar subjects during schooling? With this study, we draw on role expectations theory to understand how inequality in assessment emerges as individuals transition from student to professional roles. To do this, we leverage the case of medical residency so that we can examine how changes in role expectations shape …
Taking the Time: The Implications of Workplace Assessment for Organizational Gender Inequality
Gendered differences in workload distribution, in particular who spends time on low-promotability workplace tasks-tasks that are essential for organizations yet do not typically lead to promotions-contribute to persistent gender inequalities in workplaces. We examined how gender is implicated in the content, quality, and consequences of one low-promotability workplace task: assessment. By analyzing real-world behavioral data that include 33,456 i…
Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work
How do clinicians manage the negative emotions that emerge when hospital patients are dissatisfied with their pain treatment? Drawing on a 21-month hospital ethnography, I show that clinicians view opioids as tools that can allow them to avoid engaging in emotional labor with dissatisfied pain patients. I detail two different strategies that clinicians pursued. Through permissive prescription, clinicians used intravenous (IV) opioids liberally to…
Flexible Austerity: Negotiating the Unequal Effects of Resource Shortages in Racialized Organizations
Resource shortages unfold unequally, often affecting the most socially disadvantaged people and exacerbating preexisting inequalities. Given that most resources are obtained through organizations, what role do organizational processes play in amplifying inequalities during shortages? I argue that workers engage in a practice I term flexible austerity. Flexible austerity describes how resource shortages become opportunities for decision-makers to …
Clinical Advocacy: How Physicians Fight Back against Bureaucratic and Financial Pressures
The commercialization and corporatization of U.S. health care have intensified bureaucratic and economic constraints on clinical decision-making. Drawing on data from a 21-month ethnography of hospital-based clinicians, we introduce clinical advocacy as the often invisible work clinicians undertake to secure care that they judge medically appropriate when third parties external to the patient–provider relationship restrict medical practice. We id…
Psychology (4 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diversity and Career in Medicine (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Inequality (2 works)