Kelly Underman
Biographic Data
| ID | 291599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Underman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Underman |
| SIGNATURE | UNDERMAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4374-5072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Updating 'somatic culture' for the sociology of health professions education
Sensory Forms of Knowing in Body Pedagogics
The perspectives of skilled experts who help learners develop and improve bodily skills has not often been examined in sociology. In this paper, I focus on the role of selective sensory engagement with moving bodies as an important way of knowing through which skilled experts assess and intervene upon the skill acquisition of learners. I bring together literature on body pedagogics with literature on sociology of the senses to understand how embo…
Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention
Special issue introduction: The sociology of health professions education
Menchik, Daniel (2021). Managing Medical Authority
Online student culture as site for negotiating assessment in medical education
The Social Transmission of Bodily Knowledge
Literature on bodily habit has often emphasised the inculcation of new bodily skills and embodied ways of being in practice. However, recent work demonstrates that skilled experts do focus on the body, its sensuous information, and engage in conscious and deliberate forms of bodily awareness during the performance of bodily skills. In this article, I present data from interviews with barbell coaches (CrossFit, powerlifting, and Olympic weightlift…
Counter‐Clinical Spaces 1
Intermediary spaces between health social movements and biomedicine have proliferated since the 1970s and have typically been analyzed through the lenses of co‐optation or hybridization. In this article, we present data from two separate empirical projects (teaching and learning the pelvic exam in medical schools and feminist anti‐violence counseling programs) in order to theorize what we call “counter‐clinical spaces.” Counter‐clinical spaces ar…
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology: A Return to Our Roots and an Agenda for the Future
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
Custodial Citizenship in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding
In contemporary processes of citizenship, parents and other caregivers often must make claims to the state on behalf of children with disabilities. In this article, we draw from data on the Omnibus Autism Proceedings ( OAP ), which were a series of hearings in 2007 and 2008 in which parents of children with autism attempted to receive compensation from a federal program for vaccine injury. During these hearings, parents and their attorneys obfusc…
The relationship between medical education and trans health disparities: A call to research
According to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 28% of trans respondents reported postponing medical care due to discrimination, and 28% reported being harassed by providers when they did seek out care. Scholars have proposed that what is taught (or not) in medical schools might play a role in the unequal health care experienced by many trans people. As medical education becomes a site of intervention for reducing transgender health …
Detached concern: Emotional socialization in twenty-first century medical education
Adjudicating non-knowledge in the Omnibus Autism Proceedings
After 5600 families of children diagnosed with autism filed claims with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the United States, the court selected ‘test’ cases consolidated into the Omnibus Autism Proceedings, held from 2007 to 2008, to examine claims that vaccines caused the development of autism. The court found all of the causation theories presented to be untenable and did not award damages to any parents. We analyze the Omnibu…
Playing doctor: Simulation in medical school as affective practice
It's the Knowledge That Puts You in Control: The Embodied Labor of Gynecological Educators
Studies have recently begun to attend to the ways paid labor is embodied. However, the literature on embodied labor has not adequately addressed occupations for which the site of labor is the worker's own body. One such occupation is that of gynecological educators-female-bodied instructors who teach breast and pelvic examinations to medical students using their own bodies as models. Drawing on interviews with current and former gynecological edu…
Detached concern: Emotional socialization in twenty-first century medical education
Clinical empathy as emotional labor in medical work
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology: A Return to Our Roots and an Agenda for the Future
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 …
Playing doctor: Simulation in medical school as affective practice
The relationship between medical education and trans health disparities: A call to research
According to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 28% of trans respondents reported postponing medical care due to discrimination, and 28% reported being harassed by providers when they did seek out care. Scholars have proposed that what is taught (or not) in medical schools might play a role in the unequal health care experienced by many trans people. As medical education becomes a site of intervention for reducing transgender health …
It's the Knowledge That Puts You in Control: The Embodied Labor of Gynecological Educators
Studies have recently begun to attend to the ways paid labor is embodied. However, the literature on embodied labor has not adequately addressed occupations for which the site of labor is the worker's own body. One such occupation is that of gynecological educators-female-bodied instructors who teach breast and pelvic examinations to medical students using their own bodies as models. Drawing on interviews with current and former gynecological edu…
Online student culture as site for negotiating assessment in medical education
The Social Transmission of Bodily Knowledge
Literature on bodily habit has often emphasised the inculcation of new bodily skills and embodied ways of being in practice. However, recent work demonstrates that skilled experts do focus on the body, its sensuous information, and engage in conscious and deliberate forms of bodily awareness during the performance of bodily skills. In this article, I present data from interviews with barbell coaches (CrossFit, powerlifting, and Olympic weightlift…
Counter‐Clinical Spaces 1
Intermediary spaces between health social movements and biomedicine have proliferated since the 1970s and have typically been analyzed through the lenses of co‐optation or hybridization. In this article, we present data from two separate empirical projects (teaching and learning the pelvic exam in medical schools and feminist anti‐violence counseling programs) in order to theorize what we call “counter‐clinical spaces.” Counter‐clinical spaces ar…
Custodial Citizenship in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding
In contemporary processes of citizenship, parents and other caregivers often must make claims to the state on behalf of children with disabilities. In this article, we draw from data on the Omnibus Autism Proceedings ( OAP ), which were a series of hearings in 2007 and 2008 in which parents of children with autism attempted to receive compensation from a federal program for vaccine injury. During these hearings, parents and their attorneys obfusc…
Sensory Forms of Knowing in Body Pedagogics
The perspectives of skilled experts who help learners develop and improve bodily skills has not often been examined in sociology. In this paper, I focus on the role of selective sensory engagement with moving bodies as an important way of knowing through which skilled experts assess and intervene upon the skill acquisition of learners. I bring together literature on body pedagogics with literature on sociology of the senses to understand how embo…
It's the Knowledge That Puts You in Control: The Embodied Labor of Gynecological Educators
Studies have recently begun to attend to the ways paid labor is embodied. However, the literature on embodied labor has not adequately addressed occupations for which the site of labor is the worker's own body. One such occupation is that of gynecological educators-female-bodied instructors who teach breast and pelvic examinations to medical students using their own bodies as models. Drawing on interviews with current and former gynecological edu…
Adjudicating non-knowledge in the Omnibus Autism Proceedings
After 5600 families of children diagnosed with autism filed claims with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the United States, the court selected ‘test’ cases consolidated into the Omnibus Autism Proceedings, held from 2007 to 2008, to examine claims that vaccines caused the development of autism. The court found all of the causation theories presented to be untenable and did not award damages to any parents. We analyze the Omnibu…
Playing doctor: Simulation in medical school as affective practice
The relationship between medical education and trans health disparities: A call to research
According to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 28% of trans respondents reported postponing medical care due to discrimination, and 28% reported being harassed by providers when they did seek out care. Scholars have proposed that what is taught (or not) in medical schools might play a role in the unequal health care experienced by many trans people. As medical education becomes a site of intervention for reducing transgender health …
Detached concern: Emotional socialization in twenty-first century medical education
Custodial Citizenship in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding
In contemporary processes of citizenship, parents and other caregivers often must make claims to the state on behalf of children with disabilities. In this article, we draw from data on the Omnibus Autism Proceedings ( OAP ), which were a series of hearings in 2007 and 2008 in which parents of children with autism attempted to receive compensation from a federal program for vaccine injury. During these hearings, parents and their attorneys obfusc…
Clinical empathy as emotional labor in medical work
Counter‐Clinical Spaces 1
Intermediary spaces between health social movements and biomedicine have proliferated since the 1970s and have typically been analyzed through the lenses of co‐optation or hybridization. In this article, we present data from two separate empirical projects (teaching and learning the pelvic exam in medical schools and feminist anti‐violence counseling programs) in order to theorize what we call “counter‐clinical spaces.” Counter‐clinical spaces ar…
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology: A Return to Our Roots and an Agenda for the Future
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 …
Online student culture as site for negotiating assessment in medical education
The Social Transmission of Bodily Knowledge
Literature on bodily habit has often emphasised the inculcation of new bodily skills and embodied ways of being in practice. However, recent work demonstrates that skilled experts do focus on the body, its sensuous information, and engage in conscious and deliberate forms of bodily awareness during the performance of bodily skills. In this article, I present data from interviews with barbell coaches (CrossFit, powerlifting, and Olympic weightlift…
Menchik, Daniel (2021). Managing Medical Authority
Special issue introduction: The sociology of health professions education
Updating 'somatic culture' for the sociology of health professions education
Sensory Forms of Knowing in Body Pedagogics
The perspectives of skilled experts who help learners develop and improve bodily skills has not often been examined in sociology. In this paper, I focus on the role of selective sensory engagement with moving bodies as an important way of knowing through which skilled experts assess and intervene upon the skill acquisition of learners. I bring together literature on body pedagogics with literature on sociology of the senses to understand how embo…
Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Innovations in Medical Education (4 works)