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Books The tentative pregnancy, Recreating motherhood, Weaving a Family, In labor, Laboring On |
Plymouth university webinar 13feb2003 barbara katz rothman
Barbara Katz Rothman, (born 1948) is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York and the author of numerous books. Her work is interdisciplinary and international; its scope encompasses medical sociology, childbirth and midwifery issues, bioethics, race, disability, food science, the sociology of knowledge and the interactions between these factors. She is the President Elect of the Eastern Sociological Society for the 2016 presidential term.
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- Plymouth university webinar 13feb2003 barbara katz rothman
- Books
- Journals and Popular Media
- International Work and Awards
- References
Books
Journals and Popular Media
Barbara Katz Rothman is widely published in both popular and scholarly sources, including Social Problems, Virtual Mentor of the AMA, MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, Annual Review of Health Sciences of Australia, The Japanese Midwifery Journal, The MT. Sinai Journal of Medicine, Gender & Society, Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, NOVA Law Review, The Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, MS., Glamour, European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, MAMM, Conscience, Midwifery Today, Legal Affairs.
International Work and Awards
Katz Rothman has lectured widely throughout the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, where she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Groningen, 1995. Her books have been translated into many languages, including Japanese and Finnish.
She was a visiting professor at the Universität Osnabrück, Germany, (2002), visiting professor in the International Masters in Health and Society at the Charite in Berlin, and a Leverhulme Professor at the University of Plymouth (2003) in the United Kingdom, where she has an ongoing visiting Professorship.
Katz Rothman is past president of two national sociological professional associations, Sociologists for Women in Society, from which she won the Mentoring Award, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems, which has awarded her the Lee Founders Award. She is also the recipient of an award for “Midwifing the Movement” from the Midwives Alliance of North America.