Elaine Draper
Biographic Data
| ID | 280815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Draper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Draper |
| SIGNATURE | DRAPER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Company Doctor
Drug testing in the workplace
Discusses US use of drug testing in the workplace, screening employees for smoking, AIDS, genetic traits and reproductive hazards. Attributes this to the costs employers face in insurance, litigation and compensation. Points out that the purpose of drug testing is to circumvent management responsibility for: accidents in the workplace, stress, bad management practices, and disregarding health and safety initiatives. Acknowledges that the tests ar…
Rethinking the Choice to Have Children
Reinventing Rationality
Risk, Society, and Social Theory
Risky Business
Fetal Exclusion Policies and Gendered Constructions of Suitable Work
This paper offers evidence to contradict employers' claims that scientific research supports their definition of unacceptable risk used to exclude women from jobs requiring exposure to toxic substances. Definitions of acceptable risk in fetal exclusion policies are not scientific or value-neutral, but are in fact socially constructed, and therefore reflect gender stratification, corporate control, and the culturally privileged position of the fet…
Genetic Secrets
In the 1990s, as the multi-billion-dollar Human Genome Project makes more and more genetic information available, we would do well to look closely at the social context of power dynamics, control, and economic interests within which that information will be used. Let us consider four specific questions. How does social stratification by race, ethnicity, gender, and social class affect the use of genetic information in the workplace? In what ways …
Risky Business
High‐risk Workers or High‐risk Work? Genetic Susceptibility Policies in the Hazardous Workplace
The problem of workers at risk should be reframed to reflect the impact of social stratification, power relations and divergent interests in occupational health practices. The past two decades have seen rapid developments in technology for detecting genetic traits and abnormalities in individuals that may indicate damage from chemical exposure. Occupational physicians, industrial managers and biomedical scientists increasingly favour this technol…
Steelworkers Rank-and-File
Women’s work and development in Latin America
Risk by Choice? Knowledge and Power in the Hazardous Workplace
Regulation
Women’s work and development in Latin America
Risk, Society, and Social Theory
Fetal Exclusion Policies and Gendered Constructions of Suitable Work
This paper offers evidence to contradict employers' claims that scientific research supports their definition of unacceptable risk used to exclude women from jobs requiring exposure to toxic substances. Definitions of acceptable risk in fetal exclusion policies are not scientific or value-neutral, but are in fact socially constructed, and therefore reflect gender stratification, corporate control, and the culturally privileged position of the fet…
Drug testing in the workplace
Discusses US use of drug testing in the workplace, screening employees for smoking, AIDS, genetic traits and reproductive hazards. Attributes this to the costs employers face in insurance, litigation and compensation. Points out that the purpose of drug testing is to circumvent management responsibility for: accidents in the workplace, stress, bad management practices, and disregarding health and safety initiatives. Acknowledges that the tests ar…
Rethinking the Choice to Have Children
Risk by Choice? Knowledge and Power in the Hazardous Workplace
Regulation
Risk by Choice? Knowledge and Power in the Hazardous Workplace
Women’s work and development in Latin America
High‐risk Workers or High‐risk Work? Genetic Susceptibility Policies in the Hazardous Workplace
The problem of workers at risk should be reframed to reflect the impact of social stratification, power relations and divergent interests in occupational health practices. The past two decades have seen rapid developments in technology for detecting genetic traits and abnormalities in individuals that may indicate damage from chemical exposure. Occupational physicians, industrial managers and biomedical scientists increasingly favour this technol…
Steelworkers Rank-and-File
Genetic Secrets
In the 1990s, as the multi-billion-dollar Human Genome Project makes more and more genetic information available, we would do well to look closely at the social context of power dynamics, control, and economic interests within which that information will be used. Let us consider four specific questions. How does social stratification by race, ethnicity, gender, and social class affect the use of genetic information in the workplace? In what ways …
Risky Business
Reinventing Rationality
Risk, Society, and Social Theory
Risky Business
Fetal Exclusion Policies and Gendered Constructions of Suitable Work
This paper offers evidence to contradict employers' claims that scientific research supports their definition of unacceptable risk used to exclude women from jobs requiring exposure to toxic substances. Definitions of acceptable risk in fetal exclusion policies are not scientific or value-neutral, but are in fact socially constructed, and therefore reflect gender stratification, corporate control, and the culturally privileged position of the fet…
Rethinking the Choice to Have Children
Drug testing in the workplace
Discusses US use of drug testing in the workplace, screening employees for smoking, AIDS, genetic traits and reproductive hazards. Attributes this to the costs employers face in insurance, litigation and compensation. Points out that the purpose of drug testing is to circumvent management responsibility for: accidents in the workplace, stress, bad management practices, and disregarding health and safety initiatives. Acknowledges that the tests ar…
Company Doctor
Political science (11 works) · Business (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Hazardous waste (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)