Laura Mamo
Biographic Data
| ID | 80901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Mamo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Mamo |
| SIGNATURE | MAMO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6105-7073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1035 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Advancing stratified biomedicalization for urgent times
Vers une justice reproductive queer au cœur des bioéconomies transnationales
Cet article est consacré à l'expansion transnationale de la procréation médicalement assistée et pose la question des comportements responsables à adopter dans le contexte des bioéconomies du xxi e siècle. Il s'intéresse plus précisément à la fois aux représentations attachées aux familles lesbiennes, gays, bisexuelles, transgenres et queers (LGBTQ+) et à la manière dont les personnes LGBTQ+ réalisent leurs projets parentaux dans les conditions a…
Human papillomavirus self-sampling: A tool in cancer prevention and sexual health promotion
This article examines human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling as an approach to cervical cancer prevention and the ways self-sampling kits are promoted directly to consumers in the United States. Public health, biomedicine and health tech have increasingly imagined self-sampling, which allows individuals to collect their own vaginal specimen, mail to a laboratory for testing and receive delivered results, as a component of cervical cancer preven…
More service or more advancement: Institutional barriers to academic success for women and women of color faculty at a large public comprehensive minority-serving state university
Homeplace: Care and resistance among public housing residents facing mixed-income redevelopment
with subthemes focusing on the ways homeplace emerges through shared lineage, knowing and caring practices; how homeplace is maintained through networks of protection in unsafe contexts; how homeplace is disrupted as a result of redevelopment activities; and the reclamation of homeplace during redevelopment in the service of hope and healing. These findings offer a nuanced view of resident's lived experiences of place-based trauma and collective …
Tending toward friendship: LGBTQ sexualities in US schools
In 2014, Beyond Bullying, a research project examining LGBTQ sexualities and lives at school, installed private storytelling booths in three US high schools. Students, teachers, and staff were invited to use the booths to share stories about LGBTQ sexualities—their stories often invoked the pleasures and disappointments of being and having a friend. This article analyzes narratives of friendship as told in the Beyond Bullying storytelling booths.…
The imaginary of precision public health
In recent years, precision medicine has emerged as a charismatic name for a growing movement to revolutionise biomedicine by bringing genomic knowledge and sequencing to clinical care. Increasingly, the precision revolution has also included a new paradigm called precision public health-part genomics, part informatics, part public health and part biomedicine. Advocates of precision public health, such as Sue Desmond-Hellmann, argue that adopting …
Queering reproduction in transnational bio-economies
In this commentary, I consider how scholars, practitioners and those seeking to have babies via assisted reproductive technology (ART) might be accountable to 21st century family-making in ways that attend to reproductive stratifications (the uneven support for people to conceive and raise children), and yet refuse to renaturalize or valorize certain forms of reproduction or reproduction by certain categories of persons [e.g. lesbian, gay, bisexu…
The new sexual politics of cancer: Oncoviruses, disease prevention, and sexual health promotion
The proliferation of sexual health: Diverse social problems and the legitimation of sexuality
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
Queer Intimacies and Structural Inequalities: New Directions in Stratified Reproduction
This article examines queer intimacies produced by and within a growing industry in assisting human reproduction. Queer users of fertility biomedicine such as gay men, gender queer, and transgender people are constituted within expanded biomedical fertility services in ways similar to their heterosexual counterparts, reproduce more than humans: they reproduce consumer marketplaces, normativities, notions of belonging, and intensifying inequalitie…
The pharmaceuticalization of sexual risk: Vaccine development and the new politics of cancer prevention
Queering the Fertility Clinic
Development of a Privacy and Security Policy Framework for a Multistate Comparative Effectiveness Research Network
Comparative effectiveness research (CER) conducted in distributed research networks (DRNs) is subject to different state laws and regulations as well as institution-specific policies intended to protect privacy and security of health information. The goal of the Scalable National Network for Effectiveness Research (SCANNER) project is to develop and demonstrate a scalable, flexible technical infrastructure for DRNs that enables near real-time CER…
Why Justice: Introduction to the Special Issue on Entanglements of Science, Ethics, and Justice
This special issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values assembles papers that consider relations among science, ethics, and justice. The papers are drawn from a 2011 National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop that brought together interdisciplinary scholars to consider, incorporate, and attend to the meanings, uses, and social consequences of ethical questions and justice ideals in technoscientific projects. The papers included in this spec…
Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U. S.
Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.
International audience
Scripting the Body: Pharmaceuticals and the (Re)Making of Menstruation
This article provides an analysis of the 2003–4 marketing campaigns for Seasonale, the first extended‐cycle oral contraceptive drug designed to suppress women's and girls' monthly menstruation. Seasonale, we argue, is part of a new class of lifestyle pharmaceuticals, relatively new pharmacological therapies (along with others for the treatment of baldness, sleep difficulties, excessive weight, mild depression, sexual performance, general aging, a…
Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience
Negotiating Conception: Lesbians' Hybrid-Technological Practices
Drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-six lesbians, this article offers a feminist qualitative analysis of lesbian conception practices. The article examines the ways lesbian actors negotiate biomedical discourse in ways that reveal the co-constitutiveness of nature and culture, bodies and technologies, and biomedical and subjective knowledge. The article offers the concept of hybrid technologies, which are described as lesbian pragmatic neg…
Biomedicalizing kinship: Sperm banks and the creation of affinity-ties
Over the past 25 years, the availability of commercialized sperm banks providing donor sperm to be used in assisted reproduction has altered public understandings of procreation as the ‘natural’ pr
Confronting inequities in HIV/Aids care in the USA: Suggested lines of investigation
This paper critically reviews the literature on access to healthcare for people with HIV/AIDS. It takes as its starting point studies that show both the effectiveness of combination medical therapy in reducing AIDS related morbidity and mortality and studies which show that a high percentage (upwards of 66%) of people with HIV/AIDS are receiving neither life-prolonging therapy nor adequate healthcare. It argues that despite the availability of so…
Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine
The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization-the expansion of medical jurisdiction, authority, and practices into new realms-became widespread. Since about 1985, dramatic changes in both the organization and practices of contemporary biomedicine, implemented largely through the integration of technoscientific innovations, have been coalesc…
What's in a Disorder: A Cultural Analysis of Medical and Pharmaceutical Constructions of Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction
This paper analyzes the emergence of two FDA-approved products to treat “sexual disorders”: Viagra, a drug prescribed for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, and the Eros, a device prescribed for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction. Through an analysis of advertising and promotional materials for Viagra and the Eros, we argue that these pharmaceutical devices and the discourses they circulate reinforce normative gender ideals by enactin…
Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine
The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization-the expansion of medical jurisdiction, authority, and practices into new realms-became widespread. Since about 1985, dramatic changes in both the organization and practices of contemporary biomedicine, implemented largely through the integration of technoscientific innovations, have been coalesc…
Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience
Potency in All the Right Places: Viagra as a Technology of the Gendered Body
New pharmacological therapies, often dubbed `lifestyle drugs', demonstrate the enactment of yet another interface between technologies and bodies that promises a re-fashioning of the body with transformative, life-enhancing results. This article analyzes the emergence of one lifestyle drug, Viagra, from a technoscience studies perspective, conceptualizing Viagra as a new medical technology of the body. Through an analysis of promotional materials…
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
The pharmaceuticalization of sexual risk: Vaccine development and the new politics of cancer prevention
Scripting the Body: Pharmaceuticals and the (Re)Making of Menstruation
This article provides an analysis of the 2003–4 marketing campaigns for Seasonale, the first extended‐cycle oral contraceptive drug designed to suppress women's and girls' monthly menstruation. Seasonale, we argue, is part of a new class of lifestyle pharmaceuticals, relatively new pharmacological therapies (along with others for the treatment of baldness, sleep difficulties, excessive weight, mild depression, sexual performance, general aging, a…
The proliferation of sexual health: Diverse social problems and the legitimation of sexuality
Queer Intimacies and Structural Inequalities: New Directions in Stratified Reproduction
This article examines queer intimacies produced by and within a growing industry in assisting human reproduction. Queer users of fertility biomedicine such as gay men, gender queer, and transgender people are constituted within expanded biomedical fertility services in ways similar to their heterosexual counterparts, reproduce more than humans: they reproduce consumer marketplaces, normativities, notions of belonging, and intensifying inequalitie…
Biomedicalizing kinship: Sperm banks and the creation of affinity-ties
Over the past 25 years, the availability of commercialized sperm banks providing donor sperm to be used in assisted reproduction has altered public understandings of procreation as the ‘natural’ pr
What's in a Disorder: A Cultural Analysis of Medical and Pharmaceutical Constructions of Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction
This paper analyzes the emergence of two FDA-approved products to treat “sexual disorders”: Viagra, a drug prescribed for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, and the Eros, a device prescribed for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction. Through an analysis of advertising and promotional materials for Viagra and the Eros, we argue that these pharmaceutical devices and the discourses they circulate reinforce normative gender ideals by enactin…
Why Justice: Introduction to the Special Issue on Entanglements of Science, Ethics, and Justice
This special issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values assembles papers that consider relations among science, ethics, and justice. The papers are drawn from a 2011 National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop that brought together interdisciplinary scholars to consider, incorporate, and attend to the meanings, uses, and social consequences of ethical questions and justice ideals in technoscientific projects. The papers included in this spec…
Queering reproduction in transnational bio-economies
In this commentary, I consider how scholars, practitioners and those seeking to have babies via assisted reproductive technology (ART) might be accountable to 21st century family-making in ways that attend to reproductive stratifications (the uneven support for people to conceive and raise children), and yet refuse to renaturalize or valorize certain forms of reproduction or reproduction by certain categories of persons [e.g. lesbian, gay, bisexu…
More service or more advancement: Institutional barriers to academic success for women and women of color faculty at a large public comprehensive minority-serving state university
Death and Dying: Confluences of Emotion and Awareness
Using data from an introspective ethnography, this paper proposes a modified theory of awareness among dying patients, their families and medical personnel. By incorporating the sociology of emotions, this modified theory provides a richer understanding of the complexity of relationships in death and dying than the previous literature which focuses on knowledge and the management of knowledge in social interactions in the context of dying. It is …
Negotiating Conception: Lesbians' Hybrid-Technological Practices
Drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-six lesbians, this article offers a feminist qualitative analysis of lesbian conception practices. The article examines the ways lesbian actors negotiate biomedical discourse in ways that reveal the co-constitutiveness of nature and culture, bodies and technologies, and biomedical and subjective knowledge. The article offers the concept of hybrid technologies, which are described as lesbian pragmatic neg…
The imaginary of precision public health
In recent years, precision medicine has emerged as a charismatic name for a growing movement to revolutionise biomedicine by bringing genomic knowledge and sequencing to clinical care. Increasingly, the precision revolution has also included a new paradigm called precision public health-part genomics, part informatics, part public health and part biomedicine. Advocates of precision public health, such as Sue Desmond-Hellmann, argue that adopting …
Changes in Medicine, Changes in Nursing: Career Contingencies and the Movement of Nurses Into Clinical Trial Coordination
This article considers the emergence of the career line of clinical trial coordination in the occupation of nursing and the ways in which some nurses move away from other areas of work and come to be affiliated with it. Our analysis builds on the work of Becker and Strauss, who argued that two dimensions of a career contingency are central in understanding the development of an occupational line : the local contingencies of movement in a career a…
Human papillomavirus self-sampling: A tool in cancer prevention and sexual health promotion
This article examines human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling as an approach to cervical cancer prevention and the ways self-sampling kits are promoted directly to consumers in the United States. Public health, biomedicine and health tech have increasingly imagined self-sampling, which allows individuals to collect their own vaginal specimen, mail to a laboratory for testing and receive delivered results, as a component of cervical cancer preven…
HIV risk behaviours among male-to-female transgenders in comparison with homosexual or bisexual males and heterosexual females
Issues and concerns among six directors, one counsellor and one consultant for transgender programmes in San Francisco are described. Additionally, 173 clients who were enrolled in programmes in eight AIDS service organizations were interviewed using a structured survey questionnaire. This study examined the relationships between HIV risk behaviours and social and cognitive factors among transgendered females (male-to-female transgenders) (n = 25…
Original Article
Death and Dying: Confluences of Emotion and Awareness
Using data from an introspective ethnography, this paper proposes a modified theory of awareness among dying patients, their families and medical personnel. By incorporating the sociology of emotions, this modified theory provides a richer understanding of the complexity of relationships in death and dying than the previous literature which focuses on knowledge and the management of knowledge in social interactions in the context of dying. It is …
Changes in Medicine, Changes in Nursing: Career Contingencies and the Movement of Nurses Into Clinical Trial Coordination
This article considers the emergence of the career line of clinical trial coordination in the occupation of nursing and the ways in which some nurses move away from other areas of work and come to be affiliated with it. Our analysis builds on the work of Becker and Strauss, who argued that two dimensions of a career contingency are central in understanding the development of an occupational line : the local contingencies of movement in a career a…
Potency in All the Right Places: Viagra as a Technology of the Gendered Body
New pharmacological therapies, often dubbed `lifestyle drugs', demonstrate the enactment of yet another interface between technologies and bodies that promises a re-fashioning of the body with transformative, life-enhancing results. This article analyzes the emergence of one lifestyle drug, Viagra, from a technoscience studies perspective, conceptualizing Viagra as a new medical technology of the body. Through an analysis of promotional materials…
What's in a Disorder: A Cultural Analysis of Medical and Pharmaceutical Constructions of Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction
This paper analyzes the emergence of two FDA-approved products to treat “sexual disorders”: Viagra, a drug prescribed for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, and the Eros, a device prescribed for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction. Through an analysis of advertising and promotional materials for Viagra and the Eros, we argue that these pharmaceutical devices and the discourses they circulate reinforce normative gender ideals by enactin…
Confronting inequities in HIV/Aids care in the USA: Suggested lines of investigation
This paper critically reviews the literature on access to healthcare for people with HIV/AIDS. It takes as its starting point studies that show both the effectiveness of combination medical therapy in reducing AIDS related morbidity and mortality and studies which show that a high percentage (upwards of 66%) of people with HIV/AIDS are receiving neither life-prolonging therapy nor adequate healthcare. It argues that despite the availability of so…
Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine
The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization-the expansion of medical jurisdiction, authority, and practices into new realms-became widespread. Since about 1985, dramatic changes in both the organization and practices of contemporary biomedicine, implemented largely through the integration of technoscientific innovations, have been coalesc…
Biomedicalizing kinship: Sperm banks and the creation of affinity-ties
Over the past 25 years, the availability of commercialized sperm banks providing donor sperm to be used in assisted reproduction has altered public understandings of procreation as the ‘natural’ pr
Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience
Negotiating Conception: Lesbians' Hybrid-Technological Practices
Drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-six lesbians, this article offers a feminist qualitative analysis of lesbian conception practices. The article examines the ways lesbian actors negotiate biomedical discourse in ways that reveal the co-constitutiveness of nature and culture, bodies and technologies, and biomedical and subjective knowledge. The article offers the concept of hybrid technologies, which are described as lesbian pragmatic neg…
Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.
International audience
Scripting the Body: Pharmaceuticals and the (Re)Making of Menstruation
This article provides an analysis of the 2003–4 marketing campaigns for Seasonale, the first extended‐cycle oral contraceptive drug designed to suppress women's and girls' monthly menstruation. Seasonale, we argue, is part of a new class of lifestyle pharmaceuticals, relatively new pharmacological therapies (along with others for the treatment of baldness, sleep difficulties, excessive weight, mild depression, sexual performance, general aging, a…
Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U. S.
Queering the Fertility Clinic
Development of a Privacy and Security Policy Framework for a Multistate Comparative Effectiveness Research Network
Comparative effectiveness research (CER) conducted in distributed research networks (DRNs) is subject to different state laws and regulations as well as institution-specific policies intended to protect privacy and security of health information. The goal of the Scalable National Network for Effectiveness Research (SCANNER) project is to develop and demonstrate a scalable, flexible technical infrastructure for DRNs that enables near real-time CER…
Why Justice: Introduction to the Special Issue on Entanglements of Science, Ethics, and Justice
This special issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values assembles papers that consider relations among science, ethics, and justice. The papers are drawn from a 2011 National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop that brought together interdisciplinary scholars to consider, incorporate, and attend to the meanings, uses, and social consequences of ethical questions and justice ideals in technoscientific projects. The papers included in this spec…
The pharmaceuticalization of sexual risk: Vaccine development and the new politics of cancer prevention
Queer Intimacies and Structural Inequalities: New Directions in Stratified Reproduction
This article examines queer intimacies produced by and within a growing industry in assisting human reproduction. Queer users of fertility biomedicine such as gay men, gender queer, and transgender people are constituted within expanded biomedical fertility services in ways similar to their heterosexual counterparts, reproduce more than humans: they reproduce consumer marketplaces, normativities, notions of belonging, and intensifying inequalitie…
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
The new sexual politics of cancer: Oncoviruses, disease prevention, and sexual health promotion
The proliferation of sexual health: Diverse social problems and the legitimation of sexuality
Queering reproduction in transnational bio-economies
In this commentary, I consider how scholars, practitioners and those seeking to have babies via assisted reproductive technology (ART) might be accountable to 21st century family-making in ways that attend to reproductive stratifications (the uneven support for people to conceive and raise children), and yet refuse to renaturalize or valorize certain forms of reproduction or reproduction by certain categories of persons [e.g. lesbian, gay, bisexu…
Tending toward friendship: LGBTQ sexualities in US schools
In 2014, Beyond Bullying, a research project examining LGBTQ sexualities and lives at school, installed private storytelling booths in three US high schools. Students, teachers, and staff were invited to use the booths to share stories about LGBTQ sexualities—their stories often invoked the pleasures and disappointments of being and having a friend. This article analyzes narratives of friendship as told in the Beyond Bullying storytelling booths.…
The imaginary of precision public health
In recent years, precision medicine has emerged as a charismatic name for a growing movement to revolutionise biomedicine by bringing genomic knowledge and sequencing to clinical care. Increasingly, the precision revolution has also included a new paradigm called precision public health-part genomics, part informatics, part public health and part biomedicine. Advocates of precision public health, such as Sue Desmond-Hellmann, argue that adopting …
Sociology (23 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (8 works) · Human sexuality (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)