Valerie Leiter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Leiter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Leiter |
| SIGNATURE | LEITER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simmons University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Intrauterine Devices
Enmeshed in controversy
Urinary incontinence is a hidden, private issue that affects over 40% of women. Its experience has been medicalised, mainly through urogynaecological surgery, more recently using implanted synthetic vaginal mesh. In this article, we analyse the power dynamics at play in the US Food and Drug Administration's public hearings on the regulation of mesh. We use grounded theory to analyse verbatim transcripts of two days' hearings in 2011 of a Food and…
Guinea Pig Kids
The Tuskegee syphilis study represents a nadir in health research in the U.S., when individuals' bodies were used to satisfy researchers' curiosity with no anticipated clinical benefit. The study is often used as a teaching case, in research methods and biomedical ethics training, symbolizing the past, before the federal government intervened and created human protections regulations to protect participants. The Tuskegee study continues to have o…
Mind the Gap
Moving Out
This article examines the transition to adulthood from a life course perspective, highlighting the experiences of youth with disabilities and the role that families make in that transition. Here, we focus on youth leaving home as a key marker of transition to adulthood and address historical and contemporary trends in leaving home and current influences on youths' residential opportunities. The literature reviewed here helps us to understand how …
From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra
The medicalisation of life problems has been occurring for well over a century and has increased over the past 30 years, with the engines of medicalisation shifting to biotechnology, managed care, and consumers. This paper examines one strand of medicalisation during the last century: direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of pharmaceuticals. In particular, it examines the roles that physicians and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have playe…
Families and Childhood Disabilities
Families of children with disabilities experience challenges that other families do not face. They may experience stigma as a result of having a child with a disability and may perform health care and advocacy work for their children beyond that performed by other families. The extent of these additional concerns varies tremendously across families, depending upon the nature and severity of the children's disabilities and the social context in wh…
Nobody's just normal, you know
Challenges to Children's Independent Citizenship
This article explores how recent federal legislation has increased the extent to which US children's citizenship is dependent upon their parents' citizenship, by contrasting children who are adopted internationally by US citizens and second-generation US children. Two interconnected phenomena are examined: (1) the broader material and theoretical relationships between children's membership in families and the state; and (2) the social, political …
Mental Retardation in America
Dilemmas in sharing care
The Consequences of Caring
This article broadens our knowledge about family caregiving across the life course by examining caregiving and employment effects experienced by women with children with special needs, using data from a survey conducted in 1998-1999. Almost one fifth of the mothers provide at least 20 hours a week of home health care to these children. More than half of the mothers in the labor force report an employment effect in the form of reducing their hours…
The Consequences of Caring
This article broadens our knowledge about family caregiving across the life course by examining caregiving and employment effects experienced by women with children with special needs, using data from a survey conducted in 1998-1999. Almost one fifth of the mothers provide at least 20 hours a week of home health care to these children. More than half of the mothers in the labor force report an employment effect in the form of reducing their hours…
From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra
The medicalisation of life problems has been occurring for well over a century and has increased over the past 30 years, with the engines of medicalisation shifting to biotechnology, managed care, and consumers. This paper examines one strand of medicalisation during the last century: direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of pharmaceuticals. In particular, it examines the roles that physicians and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have playe…
Nobody's just normal, you know
Dilemmas in sharing care
Mental Retardation in America
Moving Out
This article examines the transition to adulthood from a life course perspective, highlighting the experiences of youth with disabilities and the role that families make in that transition. Here, we focus on youth leaving home as a key marker of transition to adulthood and address historical and contemporary trends in leaving home and current influences on youths' residential opportunities. The literature reviewed here helps us to understand how …
Challenges to Children's Independent Citizenship
This article explores how recent federal legislation has increased the extent to which US children's citizenship is dependent upon their parents' citizenship, by contrasting children who are adopted internationally by US citizens and second-generation US children. Two interconnected phenomena are examined: (1) the broader material and theoretical relationships between children's membership in families and the state; and (2) the social, political …
Dilemmas in sharing care
The Consequences of Caring
This article broadens our knowledge about family caregiving across the life course by examining caregiving and employment effects experienced by women with children with special needs, using data from a survey conducted in 1998-1999. Almost one fifth of the mothers provide at least 20 hours a week of home health care to these children. More than half of the mothers in the labor force report an employment effect in the form of reducing their hours…
Mental Retardation in America
Challenges to Children's Independent Citizenship
This article explores how recent federal legislation has increased the extent to which US children's citizenship is dependent upon their parents' citizenship, by contrasting children who are adopted internationally by US citizens and second-generation US children. Two interconnected phenomena are examined: (1) the broader material and theoretical relationships between children's membership in families and the state; and (2) the social, political …
Families and Childhood Disabilities
Families of children with disabilities experience challenges that other families do not face. They may experience stigma as a result of having a child with a disability and may perform health care and advocacy work for their children beyond that performed by other families. The extent of these additional concerns varies tremendously across families, depending upon the nature and severity of the children's disabilities and the social context in wh…
Nobody's just normal, you know
From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra
The medicalisation of life problems has been occurring for well over a century and has increased over the past 30 years, with the engines of medicalisation shifting to biotechnology, managed care, and consumers. This paper examines one strand of medicalisation during the last century: direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of pharmaceuticals. In particular, it examines the roles that physicians and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have playe…
Moving Out
This article examines the transition to adulthood from a life course perspective, highlighting the experiences of youth with disabilities and the role that families make in that transition. Here, we focus on youth leaving home as a key marker of transition to adulthood and address historical and contemporary trends in leaving home and current influences on youths' residential opportunities. The literature reviewed here helps us to understand how …
Mind the Gap
Guinea Pig Kids
The Tuskegee syphilis study represents a nadir in health research in the U.S., when individuals' bodies were used to satisfy researchers' curiosity with no anticipated clinical benefit. The study is often used as a teaching case, in research methods and biomedical ethics training, symbolizing the past, before the federal government intervened and created human protections regulations to protect participants. The Tuskegee study continues to have o…
Enmeshed in controversy
Urinary incontinence is a hidden, private issue that affects over 40% of women. Its experience has been medicalised, mainly through urogynaecological surgery, more recently using implanted synthetic vaginal mesh. In this article, we analyse the power dynamics at play in the US Food and Drug Administration's public hearings on the regulation of mesh. We use grounded theory to analyse verbatim transcripts of two days' hearings in 2011 of a Food and…
Intrauterine Devices
Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Political science (3 works)