Constance A Nathanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 75614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance A Nathanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance A |
| FAMILY NAME | Nathanson |
| SIGNATURE | NATHANSON C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 607 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Social Production of Crisis: Blood, Politics, and Death in France and the United States
When does epidemic disease disrupt society to the point where it becomes a political crisis? In the early 1980s, almost unnoticed in the larger drama that was AIDS, over half of hemophiliacs and a larger number but smaller percentage of blood transfusion recipients were infected with toxic blood—blood that was contaminated with HIV. The French public’s “discovery” of this catastrophe in the early 1990s created a transformative political crisis; t…
Psychosocial outcomes and peer influences among multiracial adolescents in the United States
Objective: To examine racial and ethnic self-identification among adolescents and explore psychosocial outcomes and peer treatment for multiracial adolescents in the United States. Methods: Data are from the 2014 Child Development Supplement, a subsample of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Data were weighted to be nationally representative. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the population and to explore family and parent demographic…
Social and Structural Influences on Multiracial Identification and Health: A Public Health Mandate to Precisely Measure, Theorize, and Better Understand Multiracial Populations
Social Constructions of Rape at Columbia University and Barnard College, 1955–90
Sex on college campuses has fascinated scholars, reporters, and the public since the advent of coeducational higher education in the middle of the nineteenth century. But the emergence of rape on campus as a public problem is relatively recent. This article reveals the changing social constructions of campus rape as a public problem through a detailed examination of newspaper reporting on this issue as it unfolded at Columbia University and Barna…
Empires of panic: Epidemics and colonial anxieties
The word ‘panic', is derived from the God Pan, whose appearance was supposed to inspire what Webster's International Dictionary describes as ‘contagious emotion’; more generally, ‘a sudden overpowe
Comfortably, Safely, and Without Shame: Defining Menstrual Hygiene Management as a Public Health Issue
In recent years, the menstrual hygiene management challenges facing schoolgirls in low-income-country contexts have gained global attention. We applied Gusfield’s sociological analysis of the culture of public problems to better understand how this relatively newly recognized public health challenge rose to the level of global public health awareness and action. We similarly applied the conceptualization by Dorfman et al. of the role of public he…
Faire une loi, pour faire la loi. La loi de Santé publique d’août 2004
Le Parlement français a adopté une loi en août 2004, considérée par ses promoteurs comme la première loi de santé publique depuis celle de 1902. À partir du cadre théorique défini par Abbott, l’analyse qui suit se fonde principalement sur l’étude d’archives et d’interviews réalisées avec ceux qui ont participé à son élaboration. Elle montre que les raisons au principe de la formation de la loi sont multiples : la loi signe la compétition entre de…
Faire une loi, pour faire la loi. La loi de Santé publique d'août 2004
Le Parlement français a adopté une loi en août 2004, considérée par ses promoteurs comme la première loi de santé publique depuis celle de 1902. À partir du cadre théorique défini par Abbott, l’analyse qui suit se fonde principalement sur l’étude d’archives et d’interviews réalisées avec ceux qui ont participé à son élaboration. Elle montre que les raisons au principe de la formation de la loi sont multiples : la loi signe la compétition entre de…
The Marmot Review – Social revolution by Stealth
But Then He Became My Sipa ”: The Implications of Relationship Fluidity for Condom Use Among Women Sex Workers in Antananarivo, Madagascar
Increasing evidence indicates that sex workers use condoms less consistently with regular (i.e., nonpaying) partners than with clients. Few studies have examined the extent to which these 2 categories are mutually exclusive. In an ethnographic study of women's sex work in Antananarivo, Madagascar, we examined how the meaning of women sex workers’ sexual relationships could shift among 3 different forms of sex work. Condom use was less likely in f…
Physical Women, Emotional Men: Gender and Sexual Satisfaction in Midlife
Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies
Problems, Crises, Events and Social Change: Theory and Illustrations
This paper proposes a theory-based approach to the understanding of social change and illustrates that theory with examples from the history and politics of public health. Based in large part on the work of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins (see in particular his Islands of History published in (1985) William Sewell Jr. has proposed an 'eventful sociology.' In this work 'event' is a term of art meaning occurrences in human affairs that result in so…
Revisiting labeling theory and health: A commentary on Aronowitz
The Contingent Power of Experts: Public Health Policy in the United States, Britain, and France
Dangers to life and health abound. Even among the subset known to medicine and science, however, there is no guarantee that any particular danger will rise to the level of a recognized public health problem or elicit a response from the makers of public policy. The path from knowledge to policy is not straightforward; scientific consensus does not lead automatically to policy consensus. Judgments of what dangers should be most feared, how to expl…
Sex after 40: Gender, ageism, and sexual partnering in midlife
Parental Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Children as Correlates of Fertility in Kuwait
Kuwait is a high fertility country where the average number of desired children still exceeds 5. However, fertility behaviour is beginning to show a noticeable change and the current TFR is about 4·2 children. In order to understand the decline in fertility, the impact of perceived benefits and costs of children on Kuwaiti women’s desired and achieved fertility is analysed. Data from a nationally representative survey of Kuwaiti households held i…
The Social Constructions of Sexuality: Marital Infidelity and Sexually Transmitted Disease–HIV Risk in a Mexican Migrant Community
Objectives. This article explores the social context of the migration-related HIV epidemic in western Mexico. Methods. Data collection involved life histories and participant observation with migrant women in Atlanta and their sisters or sisters-in-law in Mexico. Results. Both younger and older women acknowledged that migrant men’s sexual behavior may expose them to HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.Younger Mexican women in both communi…
Some traditional methods are more modern than others: Rhythm, withdrawal and the changing meanings of sexual intimacy in Mexican companionate marriage
This paper discusses distinctions made by married Mexican women in the USA and Mexico between withdrawal and rhythm, as well as differences between women who use these traditional methods and those who use more 'modern' ones. Findings derive from an ethnographic study of gender and reproductive health in a Mexican transnational community. The primary method used was life histories, complemented by 15 months of participant observation. The sample …
The impact of fertility intentions on behavior: The case of sterilization
In this paper, we take a new approach to the question of whether or not intentions regarding future fertility affect fertility-related behavior. Our approach has three principal features: 1) it takes sterilization as its outcome, rather than pregnancy or birth; 2) it is based on a conceptual model in which fertility-related behavior is seen as determined by a long-range planning process, modified by unanticipated life course contingencies; and 3)…
Family Demography, Social Theory, and Investment in Social Capital
The analytic models used by family demographers would be strengthened by the concept of social capital, placed in the context of social exchange theory. Using that concept to designate resources that emerge from social ties, the authors advance five propositions: 1) social capital is a multidimensional attribute of an individual; 2) the dimensions of social capital are the number of relationships a person has, their quality (strength), and the re…
Do Fertility Intentions Affect Fertility Behavior
Robert Schoen, Nan Marie Astone, Young J. Kim, Constance A. Nathanson, Jason M. Fields, Do Fertility Intentions Affect Fertility Behavior?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Aug., 1999), pp. 790-799
Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy
Why Do Americans Want Children
FOR THE PAST HALF-CENTURY, demographers have been preoccupied with the issue of fertility reduction. In his influential book, Theory of Fertility Decline, Caldwell (1982: 350) asserted that fundamental challenge in the demographic field is explain the onset of fertility decline. The basic premise of Caldwell's wealth flows' theory is that high fertility has been economically advantageous to most families over most of human history,' because child…
Demografía informal: Cómo Utilizar Las Redes Sociales Para Construir Una Muestra Etnográfica Sistemática De Mujeres Mexicanas en Ambos Lados De La Frontera
En este artículo se discute cómo el muestreo etnográfico sistemático puede fortalecer la posibilidad de hacer una generalización etnográfica y ayudar a promover la comunicación interdisciplinaria. El estudio al cual se refiere este trabajo examina las diferencias en las prácticas sexuales y de salud reproductiva, así como las ideas de dos grupos de mujeres provenientes de la misma área en México: la primera generación de inmigrantes en Atlanta, y…
Do Fertility Intentions Affect Fertility Behavior
Robert Schoen, Nan Marie Astone, Young J. Kim, Constance A. Nathanson, Jason M. Fields, Do Fertility Intentions Affect Fertility Behavior?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Aug., 1999), pp. 790-799
Why Do Americans Want Children
FOR THE PAST HALF-CENTURY, demographers have been preoccupied with the issue of fertility reduction. In his influential book, Theory of Fertility Decline, Caldwell (1982: 350) asserted that fundamental challenge in the demographic field is explain the onset of fertility decline. The basic premise of Caldwell's wealth flows' theory is that high fertility has been economically advantageous to most families over most of human history,' because child…
Sex, illness, and medical care
Family Demography, Social Theory, and Investment in Social Capital
The analytic models used by family demographers would be strengthened by the concept of social capital, placed in the context of social exchange theory. Using that concept to designate resources that emerge from social ties, the authors advance five propositions: 1) social capital is a multidimensional attribute of an individual; 2) the dimensions of social capital are the number of relationships a person has, their quality (strength), and the re…
Sex Differences in Mortality
Patterns of sex differences in mortality in developed and developing countries are briefly described, and the range of explanatory approaches that have been used to account for these differences are reviewed. Attention is primarily focused on the higher male than female mortality rate in developed countries. Biological and behavioral/environmental perspectives on these differences are considered in some detail. It is concluded that a specifically…
The Social Constructions of Sexuality: Marital Infidelity and Sexually Transmitted Disease–HIV Risk in a Mexican Migrant Community
Objectives. This article explores the social context of the migration-related HIV epidemic in western Mexico. Methods. Data collection involved life histories and participant observation with migrant women in Atlanta and their sisters or sisters-in-law in Mexico. Results. Both younger and older women acknowledged that migrant men’s sexual behavior may expose them to HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.Younger Mexican women in both communi…
Sex after 40: Gender, ageism, and sexual partnering in midlife
Physical Women, Emotional Men: Gender and Sexual Satisfaction in Midlife
Female labor force participation and female mortality in Wisconsin 1974-1978
Disease Prevention as Social Change: Toward a Theory of Public Health
This article argues that public health policies are critical to the prevention and control of disease. However public health policies are not adopted and implemented in a vacuum: they are the outcome of social and political change. The forces of change need to be understood in order for them to be harnessed in the interest of public health. The article proposes a conceptual framework to account for variation in the initiation and implementation o…
Comfortably, Safely, and Without Shame: Defining Menstrual Hygiene Management as a Public Health Issue
In recent years, the menstrual hygiene management challenges facing schoolgirls in low-income-country contexts have gained global attention. We applied Gusfield’s sociological analysis of the culture of public problems to better understand how this relatively newly recognized public health challenge rose to the level of global public health awareness and action. We similarly applied the conceptualization by Dorfman et al. of the role of public he…
The future of sex mortality differentials in industrialized countries: A structural hypothesis
But Then He Became My Sipa ”: The Implications of Relationship Fluidity for Condom Use Among Women Sex Workers in Antananarivo, Madagascar
Increasing evidence indicates that sex workers use condoms less consistently with regular (i.e., nonpaying) partners than with clients. Few studies have examined the extent to which these 2 categories are mutually exclusive. In an ethnographic study of women's sex work in Antananarivo, Madagascar, we examined how the meaning of women sex workers’ sexual relationships could shift among 3 different forms of sex work. Condom use was less likely in f…
The influence of client-provider relationships on teenage women's subsequent use of contraception
This paper describes the relationships of selected dimensions of nurse-client interaction in county health department family planning clinics to the subsequent contraceptive use of the clinic's unmarried teenage clients. The subjects for the study are the clients and professional staff of 78 clinics: 2,900 eligible clients making their first contraceptive visit and 338 clinic staff nurses. Results of interviews demonstrate that client and staff e…
Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies
Components of change in adolescent fertility, 1971–1979
This article disaggregates change in adolescent fertility between 1971 and 1979 into four components: change in marriage patterns, in nonmarital sex, in pregnancy, and in birth. It also assesses quantitatively the relative contribution of each component to the change over time in two fertility outcomes: the probability of a nonmarital live birth and, given a live birth, the odds of its being nonmarital. The changes in the probability of sexual de…
Contraceptive behavior among unmarried young women: A theoretical framework for research
Adolescent Women's Contraceptive Decision Making
A modified rational decision model incorporating salient events and social influences (particularly from sexual partners) is used to analyze adolescent women's consistent use of oral contraceptives (OCs) over a six-month period. Data are taken from a panel study of 308 clients of an inner-city family planning clinic. Expected OC use was computed for each subject on the basis of subjective expected utility (SEU) theory, and is found in multivariat…
Family and Peer Influence on Obtaining a Method of Contraception
This study examines the influence of parents peers and partners on teenage womens contraceptive-seeking behavior and identifies sources of variation in the amount and direction of influence. Data are based on a survey of 2884 unmarried US women under 20 who were making their 1st visit to a family planning clinic. All family planning clinic sites in 21 of Marylands 23 counties were included in the study. The majority of these young women report ac…
Professional Norms, Personal Attitudes, and Medical Practice: The Case of Abortion
Constance A. Nathanson, Marshall H. Becker, Professional Norms, Personal Attitudes, and Medical Practice: The Case of Abortion, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 198-211
Control Structure and Conflict in Outpatient Clinics
This paper examines the influence of variations in outpatient clinic control structure on physicians' perception of conflict in three teaching and three community hospital pediatric clinics. In previous work, professional control has been equated with autonomy, or freedom from hierarchical direction. Defining control as freedom to direct clinic policies and staff, the authors found: (1) higher levels of both physician and total staff control in c…
Social Constructions of Rape at Columbia University and Barnard College, 1955–90
Sex on college campuses has fascinated scholars, reporters, and the public since the advent of coeducational higher education in the middle of the nineteenth century. But the emergence of rape on campus as a public problem is relatively recent. This article reveals the changing social constructions of campus rape as a public problem through a detailed examination of newspaper reporting on this issue as it unfolded at Columbia University and Barna…
Problems, Crises, Events and Social Change: Theory and Illustrations
This paper proposes a theory-based approach to the understanding of social change and illustrates that theory with examples from the history and politics of public health. Based in large part on the work of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins (see in particular his Islands of History published in (1985) William Sewell Jr. has proposed an 'eventful sociology.' In this work 'event' is a term of art meaning occurrences in human affairs that result in so…
Control Structure, Values, and Innovation: A Comparative Study of Hospitals
This comparative study of 12 hospitals in one SMSA was designed to investigate the organizational determinants of social, in contrast to technological, innovations. Major independent variables include: centralization of influence on hospital decision-making; relative influence of administrators, trustees, and medical staff; and social change values of decision-makers. Dependent variables are 20 recent innovations in obstetrical programs and servi…
Faire une loi, pour faire la loi. La loi de Santé publique d’août 2004
Le Parlement français a adopté une loi en août 2004, considérée par ses promoteurs comme la première loi de santé publique depuis celle de 1902. À partir du cadre théorique défini par Abbott, l’analyse qui suit se fonde principalement sur l’étude d’archives et d’interviews réalisées avec ceux qui ont participé à son élaboration. Elle montre que les raisons au principe de la formation de la loi sont multiples : la loi signe la compétition entre de…
Social and cultural factors associated with asthmatic symptoms in children
Peer Surveillance and Patient Orientation in a Pediatric Out-Patient Clinic
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Constance Nathanson; Peer Surveillance and Patient Orientation in a Pediatric Out-Patient Clinic. Human Organization 1 September 1971; 30 (3): 255–265. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.30.3.k208385186036067 Download citation file: Ris (…
Control Structure and Conflict in Outpatient Clinics
This paper examines the influence of variations in outpatient clinic control structure on physicians' perception of conflict in three teaching and three community hospital pediatric clinics. In previous work, professional control has been equated with autonomy, or freedom from hierarchical direction. Defining control as freedom to direct clinic policies and staff, the authors found: (1) higher levels of both physician and total staff control in c…
Doctors, Nurses, and Clinical Records
Previous work has suggested a number of relationships between structural characteristics of medical care units and the quality of medical performance. Detailed chart audits were carried out in five comprehensive child care clinics and measures of clinic structure and staff attitudes were also obtained, making it possible to examine some of the proposed relationships. No association was found between chart quality and hospital goals, levels of cli…
Illness and the feminine role: A theoretical review
Sex, illness, and medical care
Physician behavior as a determinant of utilization patterns: The case of abortion
Health services utilization may be influenced by the structure of the health system and the behavior of health professionals as well as by the actions of individual patients. This research examines the responses of obstetricians toward women seeking abortion. The population for this study includes all obstetrician-gynecologists with any private practice in Maryland during 1975 (473). Each responding physician (443) was presented with a case histo…
Social roles and health status among women: The significance of employment
Control Structure, Values, and Innovation: A Comparative Study of Hospitals
This comparative study of 12 hospitals in one SMSA was designed to investigate the organizational determinants of social, in contrast to technological, innovations. Major independent variables include: centralization of influence on hospital decision-making; relative influence of administrators, trustees, and medical staff; and social change values of decision-makers. Dependent variables are 20 recent innovations in obstetrical programs and servi…
Professional Norms, Personal Attitudes, and Medical Practice: The Case of Abortion
Constance A. Nathanson, Marshall H. Becker, Professional Norms, Personal Attitudes, and Medical Practice: The Case of Abortion, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 198-211
Contraceptive behavior among unmarried young women: A theoretical framework for research
Sex Differences in Mortality
Patterns of sex differences in mortality in developed and developing countries are briefly described, and the range of explanatory approaches that have been used to account for these differences are reviewed. Attention is primarily focused on the higher male than female mortality rate in developed countries. Biological and behavioral/environmental perspectives on these differences are considered in some detail. It is concluded that a specifically…
The influence of client-provider relationships on teenage women's subsequent use of contraception
This paper describes the relationships of selected dimensions of nurse-client interaction in county health department family planning clinics to the subsequent contraceptive use of the clinic's unmarried teenage clients. The subjects for the study are the clients and professional staff of 78 clinics: 2,900 eligible clients making their first contraceptive visit and 338 clinic staff nurses. Results of interviews demonstrate that client and staff e…
Professional Satisfaction and Client Outcomes: A Comparative Organizational Analysis
In studies of the effectiveness of health care organizations, the job satisfaction level of professional staff is often viewed as an "outcome," since providing a climate that satisfies participants' needs is one aspect of organizational effectiveness. Staff satisfaction, however, has not been linked with outcomes associated with clients. In this article, the authors examine the relationship between the aggregate job satisfaction level of nursing …
Female labor force participation and female mortality in Wisconsin 1974-1978
Reproductive Rituals
Family and Peer Influence on Obtaining a Method of Contraception
This study examines the influence of parents peers and partners on teenage womens contraceptive-seeking behavior and identifies sources of variation in the amount and direction of influence. Data are based on a survey of 2884 unmarried US women under 20 who were making their 1st visit to a family planning clinic. All family planning clinic sites in 21 of Marylands 23 counties were included in the study. The majority of these young women report ac…
The future of sex mortality differentials in industrialized countries: A structural hypothesis
Professional Satisfaction and Client Outcomes: Reply to Hays and White
From the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland †From the Department of Population Dynamics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing
An "Epidemic" of Adolescent Pregnancy? Some Historical and Policy Considerations
Eunice Shriver as well as the general feel- ing in both Houses that
Components of change in adolescent fertility, 1971–1979
This article disaggregates change in adolescent fertility between 1971 and 1979 into four components: change in marriage patterns, in nonmarital sex, in pregnancy, and in birth. It also assesses quantitatively the relative contribution of each component to the change over time in two fertility outcomes: the probability of a nonmarital live birth and, given a live birth, the odds of its being nonmarital. The changes in the probability of sexual de…
Adolescent Women's Contraceptive Decision Making
A modified rational decision model incorporating salient events and social influences (particularly from sexual partners) is used to analyze adolescent women's consistent use of oral contraceptives (OCs) over a six-month period. Data are taken from a panel study of 308 clients of an inner-city family planning clinic. Expected OC use was computed for each subject on the basis of subjective expected utility (SEU) theory, and is found in multivariat…
Dangerous Passage: The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's Adolescence
And Sin No More: Social Policy and Unwed Mothers in Cleveland, 1855-1990
Sociology (34 works) · Psychology (33 works) · Medicine (28 works) · Political science (23 works) · Population (20 works) · Demography (18 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Economics (12 works) · Public health (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works)