Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Books

Armstrong, Elizabeth Mitchell, Susan Markens, and Miranda R. Waggoner (Editors). 2020. Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 20: Reproduction, Health, and Medicine. Emerald.

Waggoner, Miranda R. 2017. The Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk. University of California Press.

*Winner, Robert K. Merton Book Award, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association (2019)

*Winner, Adele E. Clarke Book Award, ReproNetwork (2019)

*Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award Finalist, Society for the Study of Social Problems (2017)

Journals

McFarland, Michael, Miranda R. Waggoner, Miles G. Taylor, and Amy Burdette (Editors). 2021. Special Issue on Findings, Challenges, and Future Directions in Medical Sociology. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 62(3).

Selected Articles and Chapters

Lyerly, Anne Drapkin and Miranda R. Waggoner 2024. “Reproductive Intrusions: Evidence and Ethics.American Journal of Bioethics 24(2): 31–33.

Nelson, Ryan H., Bryanna Moore, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Miranda R. Waggoner, and Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby. 2023. “Bioethics and the Moral Authority of Experience.American Journal of Bioethics 23(1): 12–24.

Waggoner, Miranda R. and Anne Drapkin Lyerly. 2022. “Clinical Trials in Pregnancy and the ‘Shadows of Thalidomide’: Revisiting the Legacy of Frances Kelsey.” Contemporary Clinical Trials 119: 106806.

*Research Discussed in Clinical Trials Arena article on “Inclusive Drugs” (2023)

Waggoner, Miranda R. and Anne Drapkin Lyerly. 2022. “Another Consequence of Overturning Roe: Imperiling Progress on Clinical Research in Pregnancy.” American Journal of Bioethics 22(8): 59–62.

DeSoucey, Michaela and Miranda R. Waggoner. 2022. “Another Person’s Peril: Peanut Allergy, Risk Perceptions, and Responsible Sociality.American Sociological Review 87(1): 50–79.

*Winner, Outstanding Published Article Award, Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association (2023)

*Honorable Mention, Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (2023)

Rondini, Ashley C., Rachel H. Kowalsky, and Miranda R. Waggoner. 2021. “Addressing Meso-Level Mechanisms of Racism in Medicine.American Journal of Bioethics 21(2): 66–69.

Conrad, Peter and Miranda R. Waggoner. 2017. “Anticipatory Medicalization: Predisposition, Prediction, and the Expansion of Medicalized Conditions." Pp. 95–103 in Medical Ethics, Prediction, and Prognosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Mariacarla Gadebusch-Bondio, Francesco Spöring, and John-Stewart Gordon. Routledge.

Waggoner, Miranda R. 2015. "Cultivating the Maternal Future: Public Health and the Pre-Pregnant Self." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 40(4): 939–962.

Waggoner, Miranda R. and Tobias Uller. 2015. "Epigenetic Determinism in Science and Society." New Genetics and Society 37(2): 177–195.

Conrad, Peter and Miranda R. Waggoner. 2014. "Medicalization." The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society, edited by William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, and Stella Quah. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Waggoner, Miranda R. 2013. "Motherhood Preconceived: The Emergence of the Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law  38(2): 345–371.

Almeling, Rene and Miranda R. Waggoner. 2013. "More and Less than Equal: How Men Factor in the Reproductive Equation." Gender & Society 27: 821–842.

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