Bruce Mz Cohen

Biographic Data

ID	4239339
NAME	Bruce Mz Cohen
GIVEN NAMES	Bruce Mz
FAMILY NAME	Cohen
SIGNATURE	COHEN B M
AFFILIATIONS	University of Auckland
ORCID	0000-0002-8806-2630
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	23
TOTAL CITATIONS	64
AUTHOR COUNT	23
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	3

Me, Myself, and IE: Describing the actualities of undertaking institutional ethnography
Open AccessOliver Birch, P J Adams et al.ARTICLESocial Theory & Health2026References: 5
Through Institutional Ethnography (IE), one can explicate how people’s lives are being socially organised. The ethnographer creates an empirical account of what happens within a complex of institutional order, moving iteratively between data collection methods to see how the ‘institution’ occurs through people’s work, how texts are used to coordinate it, and how these texts reproduce ideology. They follow findings as they arise, with reference to…
The Autonomy Paradox and Performing Dependence—Responsibility and Resistance at an Opioid Substitution Treatment Service
Open AccessOliver Birch, Peter Adams et al.ARTICLEContemporary Drug Problems2025References: 19
Historically, opioid use has been problematized to serve various socio-political interests. To understand the present construction and management of opioid “dependence,” across 2023, an Opioid Substitution Treatment service was assessed in Aotearoa, New Zealand. This article outlines the day-to-day work at this service, to assess how it is informed by treatment guidelines, and the interests of staff, service users, and policy makers. Using Instit…
Young people’s voices on emotions: A narrative inquiry
Open AccessRoberto McLeay, Darren Powell et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023References: 8
This article presents an innovative narrative inquiry study carried out in a primary school in Aotearoa New Zealand with three young people who provide insights into how they perceive, construct, give meaning to, and make sense of their own emotions. The analysis from this primary research draws on Foucauldian scholarship to examine how the narratives that young people construct about their feelings are shaped by dominant psy-discourses on emotio…
The 'feminisation' of psychiatric discourse: A Marxist analysis of women's roles in neoliberal society
Open AccessBruce Mz Cohen, Rearna HartmannARTICLEJournal of Sociology2023Cited by: 2References: 28
In analysing the increasing rates of female 'mental illness' in neoliberal society, this article draws on Marxist and feminist theory to conceptualise psychiatry as an institution of patriarchal and capitalist power, responsible for reinforcing traditional gender roles. Through outlining the changing circumstances of women, including the recent 'feminisation' of the labour force, we argue that there has been a more acute need for patriarchal capi…
Economics, ideology, and the creation and performance of state-owned electricity utilities in Australia, 1900 to 1950
Open AccessMalcolm Abbott, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2022Cited by: 1References: 1
Health care beyond neoliberalism
Open AccessBruce Mz Cohen, Bruce M Z CohenARTICLESocial Theory & Health2019
Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism
Bruce Cohen, Bruce Mz CohenARTICLEJournal of American History2018Cited by: 1
By the 1980s, labor historians began to look more closely at the role of employers in labor-management relations. This endeavor resulted in a prodigious amount of scholarship. Some of this scholarship is to be found in this edited collection. The key to understanding employer activism against labor is found in a series of questions and answers presented by the editors in the introduction to these essays dedicated to understanding employer activis…
Marxist theory
Bruce Mz Cohen, Bruce M Z CohenCHAPTERRoutledge International Handbook…2017
This chapter outlines the main directions of argumentation in the area of mental health which have been offered by Marxist-influenced writers – namely, an understanding of the mental health system as a source of direct and indirect profit generation, and as an institution of social and ideological control. It examines the contemporary expansion of mental illness discourse under neoliberal ideology as a form of &s;psychiatric hegemony&s;. The chap…
The privatization and de-privatization of rail industry assets in Australia and New Zealand
Open AccessMalcolm Abbott, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2016
The accountability of ministerial staff in Australia
Malcolm Abbott, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Political…2014Cited by: 2References: 6
It is a reasonable community expectation that ministerial staff who enjoy the privilege of working at the interface of politics and public administration in Australia are subject to appropriate accountability measures. The key questions are what measures currently exist to hold ministerial staff accountable, how effective are such measures, and how could accountability be improved. While descriptions of an 'accountability black hole' for minister…
Probabilistic Linkage of Assisted Reproductive Technology Information with Vital Records, Massachusetts 1997–2000
Open AccessYujia Zhang, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2011
BZP-party pills: A review of research on benzylpiperazine as a recreational drug
Open AccessBruce Mz Cohen, Bruce M Z Cohen et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2011
The performance of the urban water and wastewater sectors in Australia
Open AccessMalcolm Abbott, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2011Cited by: 7
The long-term reform of the water and wastewater industry: The case of Melbourne in Australia
Open AccessMalcolm Abbott, Wei Wang et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2010References: 2
Productivity and efficiency in the water industry
Open AccessMalcolm Abbott, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2009Cited by: 31References: 2
From Snuggling and Snogging to Sampling and Scratching: Girls' Nonparticipation in Community-Based Music Activities
Open AccessBaker, Sarah Baker et al.ARTICLEYouth & Society2008Cited by: 2References: 5
This article focuses on gendered youth music practices in community-based organizations (CBOs) in Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Drawing on interviews and observational fieldwork from the Playing for Life research project, the authors highlight the absence of young women from many activities, especially in the area of hip hop (e.g., MCing, break dancing, DJing, and graffiti workshops). Attempts by CBOs to redress g…
A Population-Based Study of Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Associated with Assisted Reproductive Technology in Massachusetts
Open AccessLaura A Schieve, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2007
Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea by Laura Hapke and Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti‐Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor by Daniel E. Bender
Open AccessBruce Mz CohenARTICLEThe Journal of American Culture2007
Mapping and Measuring Social Disparities in Premature Mortality: The Impact of Census Tract Poverty within and across Boston Neighborhoods, 1999–2001
Open AccessJarvis T Chen, D H Rehkopf et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2006Cited by: 18References: 2
Linking Birth and Infant Death Records With Assisted Reproductive Technology Data: Massachusetts, 1997–1998
Open AccessSaswati Sunderam, Laura A Schieve et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2005
Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America
Open AccessBruce Mz CohenARTICLEThe Journal of American Culture2005
Mary H. Blewett — Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England
Open AccessBruce Cohen, Bruce Mz CohenARTICLELeft History An Interdisciplinary…2002
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
The Efficiency of State Economic Enterprises in Forging Development in Turkey
Open AccessGustav Schachter, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Public and Cooperative…1973

Productivity and efficiency in the water industry
Open AccessMalcolm Abbott, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2009Cited by: 31References: 2
Mapping and Measuring Social Disparities in Premature Mortality: The Impact of Census Tract Poverty within and across Boston Neighborhoods, 1999–2001
Open AccessJarvis T Chen, D H Rehkopf et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2006Cited by: 18References: 2
The performance of the urban water and wastewater sectors in Australia
Open AccessMalcolm Abbott, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2011Cited by: 7
The 'feminisation' of psychiatric discourse: A Marxist analysis of women's roles in neoliberal society
Open AccessBruce Mz Cohen, Rearna HartmannARTICLEJournal of Sociology2023Cited by: 2References: 28
In analysing the increasing rates of female 'mental illness' in neoliberal society, this article draws on Marxist and feminist theory to conceptualise psychiatry as an institution of patriarchal and capitalist power, responsible for reinforcing traditional gender roles. Through outlining the changing circumstances of women, including the recent 'feminisation' of the labour force, we argue that there has been a more acute need for patriarchal capi…
The accountability of ministerial staff in Australia
Malcolm Abbott, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Political…2014Cited by: 2References: 6
It is a reasonable community expectation that ministerial staff who enjoy the privilege of working at the interface of politics and public administration in Australia are subject to appropriate accountability measures. The key questions are what measures currently exist to hold ministerial staff accountable, how effective are such measures, and how could accountability be improved. While descriptions of an 'accountability black hole' for minister…
From Snuggling and Snogging to Sampling and Scratching: Girls' Nonparticipation in Community-Based Music Activities
Open AccessBaker, Sarah Baker et al.ARTICLEYouth & Society2008Cited by: 2References: 5
This article focuses on gendered youth music practices in community-based organizations (CBOs) in Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Drawing on interviews and observational fieldwork from the Playing for Life research project, the authors highlight the absence of young women from many activities, especially in the area of hip hop (e.g., MCing, break dancing, DJing, and graffiti workshops). Attempts by CBOs to redress g…
Economics, ideology, and the creation and performance of state-owned electricity utilities in Australia, 1900 to 1950
Open AccessMalcolm Abbott, Bruce Cohen et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2022Cited by: 1References: 1
Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism
Bruce Cohen, Bruce Mz CohenARTICLEJournal of American History2018Cited by: 1
By the 1980s, labor historians began to look more closely at the role of employers in labor-management relations. This endeavor resulted in a prodigious amount of scholarship. Some of this scholarship is to be found in this edited collection. The key to understanding employer activism against labor is found in a series of questions and answers presented by the editors in the introduction to these essays dedicated to understanding employer activis…