Alan Petersen

Alan Petersen

Monash University

H-index: 52

Oceania-Australia

About Alan Petersen

Alan Petersen, With an exceptional h-index of 52 and a recent h-index of 26 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Monash University, specializes in the field of sociology of health and medicine, science and technology studies, sociology of risk, gender/men and masculinities studies.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Competing realities, uncertain diagnoses of infectious disease: Mass self‐testing for COVID‐19 and liminal bio‐citizenship

The relatives of people with depression: A systematic review and methodological critique of qualitative studies

Artificial intelligence in long-term care: technological promise, aging anxieties, and sociotechnical ageism

Introduction to the Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine

Emotions online: Feelings and affordances of digital media

‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information

The knowing mother: Maternal knowledge and the reinforcement of the feminine consuming subject in magazine advertisements

Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: Patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing

Alan Petersen Information

University

Position

Professor of Sociology

Citations(all)

12257

Citations(since 2020)

2788

Cited By

9443

hIndex(all)

52

hIndex(since 2020)

26

i10Index(all)

112

i10Index(since 2020)

64

Email

University Profile Page

Monash University

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Alan Petersen Skills & Research Interests

sociology of health and medicine

science and technology studies

sociology of risk

gender/men and masculinities studies

Top articles of Alan Petersen

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Competing realities, uncertain diagnoses of infectious disease: Mass self‐testing for COVID‐19 and liminal bio‐citizenship

Kiran Pienaar

Alan Petersen

2023/8/1

The relatives of people with depression: A systematic review and methodological critique of qualitative studies

Niels Buus

Alan Petersen

Susan McPherson

Graham Meadows

Gabrielle Brand

...

2023/8/21

Artificial intelligence in long-term care: technological promise, aging anxieties, and sociotechnical ageism

Journal of Applied Gerontology

Barbara Barbosa Neves

Alan Petersen

Mor Vered

Adrian Carter

Maho Omori

2023/6

Introduction to the Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine

Alan Petersen

2023/11/10

Emotions online: Feelings and affordances of digital media

Alan Petersen

2022/12/30

‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information

Social Science & Medicine

Alan Petersen

Allegra Schermuly

Alison Anderson

2022/8/1

The knowing mother: Maternal knowledge and the reinforcement of the feminine consuming subject in magazine advertisements

Journal of Consumer Culture

Teresa Davis

Margaret K Hogg

David Marshall

Alan Petersen

Tanja Schneider

2022/2

Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: Patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing

Sociology of Health & Illness

Kiran Pienaar

Alan Petersen

2022/1

Testing for Life? Regimes of Governance in Diagnosis and Screening

Alan Petersen

Kiran Pienaar

2021/3

Managing risks or generating uncertainties? Ambiguous ontologies of testing in Australian healthcare

Health

Kiran Pienaar

Alan Petersen

Diana M Bowman

2021/11

From the margins to mainstream: How providers of autologous ‘stem cell treatments’ legitimise their practice in Australia

Health

Casimir MacGregor

Alan Petersen

Megan Munsie

2021/1

Promoting a healthier, younger you: The media marketing of anti-ageing superfoods

Journal of Consumer Culture

Casimir MacGregor

Alan Petersen

Christine Parker

2021/5

‘I’m not an activist!’: digital self-advocacy in online patient communities

Critical Public Health

Allegra Clare Schermuly

Alan Petersen

Alison Anderson

2021/3/15

Testing and Diagnosis as Social Interventions: An Interview with Annemarie Jutel

Science, Technology and Society

Kiran Pienaar

Alan Petersen

2021/3

The Molecular Turn, Predictive Technologies and Diagnostic Fragmentation: An Interview with David Armstrong

Science, Technology and Society

Alan Petersen

Kiran Pienaar

2021/3

Feeling less alone online: Patients’ ambivalent engagements with digital media

Sociology of Health & Illness

Alan Petersen

Allegra Schermuly

Alison Anderson

2020/7

Section 3: Locus of Care

Health, Technology and Society: Critical Inquiries

Alan Petersen

Megan Munsie

Claire Tanner

Casimir MacGregor

Jane Brophy

...

2020

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Co-Authors

H-index: 29
Diana M Bowman

Diana M Bowman

Arizona State University

H-index: 21
Oonagh P Corrigan

Oonagh P Corrigan

Anglia Ruskin University

H-index: 21
Iain Wilkinson

Iain Wilkinson

University of Kent

H-index: 5
Ivan Krisjansen

Ivan Krisjansen

Victoria University

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