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Joanna Kempner

I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University where I study science, medicine, and inequality. I am also an affiliate of Rutgers’ Institute for Health, Health Policy and Aging Research and Rutgers’ Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department. I am the author of the award-winning book Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health (Chicago). I research, teach, and speak about...

Recent Work

  • Post Truth

    Sociological Forum

  • Collective self-experimentation

    How online health communities foster innovation

  • Socially just

    Neuroethics

  • Web Design

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  • Illustration

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