Here are a few of my favorite articles.

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Standardization

Stefan Timmermans and Pamela J. Prickett, 2022, “Who Counts as Family? How Standards Stratify Lives,” American Sociological Review,

Stefan Timmermans, 2016, “Trust in Standards: Transitioning Clinical Exome Sequencing from the Bench to the Bedside,” Social Studies of Science, Vol. 45 (1), pp. 77-99.

Stefan Timmermans and Steven Epstein, 2010, “A World full of Standards but not a Standard World: Toward a Sociology of Standardization.” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 36, pp. 69-89.

Stefan Timmermans and Alison Angell, 2001, “Evidence-Based Medicine, Clinical Uncertainty, and Learning to Doctor.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 42 (4), pp. 342-359.

Stefan Timmermans and Marc Berg, 1997, “Standardization in Action: Achieving Local Universality through Medical Protocols.” Social Studies of Science, Vol. 27 (2), pp. 273-305.

Death and Dying

Stefan Timmermans and Pamela Prickett, 2021, “The Social Autopsy,” Sociological Methods and Research

Stefan Timmermans, 2005, “Suicide Determination and the Professional Authority of Medical Examiners.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 70 (April), 311-333.

Stefan Timmermans, 2005, “Death Brokering: Constructing Culturally Appropriate Deaths.” Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 27 (7), 993-1013.

Stefan Timmermans, 1998, “Social Death as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: David Sudnow's ‘Passing On’ Revisited.” The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 39 (3), pp. 453-472.

Stefan Timmermans, 1994, “Dying of Awareness: The Theory of Awareness Contexts Revisited.” Sociology of Health and Illness, June, Vol. 16 (3), pp. 322-336.

Medical sociology

Stefan Timmermans, 2020, “The Engaged Patient: Changes in Patient-Doctor Communication," Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol.61 (3), pp. 259-273.

Steven Epstein and Stefan Timmermans, 2021, “From Medicine to Health: The Proliferation and Diversification of Cultural Authority,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol 62 (3), pp. 240-254.

Stefan Timmermans, 2013 “The Seven Warrants of Qualitative Health Sociology.” Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 77, pp. 1-8.

Stefan Timmermans and Steven Haas, 2008, “Towards a Sociology of Disease.” Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 30 (5), pp. 659-676.

Qualitative Research

Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory, 2012,  “Theory Construction in Qualitative Research: From Grounded Theory to Abductive Analysis.” Sociological Theory, Vol. 30 (3), pp. 167-186

Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans, 2009, “Two Cases of Ethnography: Grounded Theory and the Extended Case Method.” Ethnography, Vol. 10 (3), pp. 243-263.

Population Health

Stefan Timmermans, Laura Orrico, and Jasmine Smith, 2014, “Spillover Effects of an Uninsured Population,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 55 (3), pp. 360-374.

Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder, 2010, “Patients-in-Waiting: Living Between Sickness and Health in the Genomics Era.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 51 (4), pp. 408-423.

Heeju Sohn and Stefan Timmermans, 2017, “Social Effects of Health Care Reform: Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care Act and Changes in Volunteering,” Socius, Vol. 3, pp. 1-12

Tara McKay and Stefan Timmermans, 2017, “Beyond Health Effects? Examining the Social Consequences of Community Levels of Uninsurance Pre-ACA." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol.58 (1), pp. 3-22.

Pragmatist Semiotics

Stefan Timmermans, 2017, “Matching Genotype and Phenotype: A Pragmatist Semiotic Analysis of Clinical Exome Sequencing,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 138 (3), pp. 136-177.

Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory, 2020, “Racist Encounters: A Pragmatist Semiotic Analysis of Interaction,” Sociological Theory, Vol 38 (4), pp. 295-317