Jessica PolzerJessica Polzer

PhD (Toronto)

Assistant Professor - Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research, School of Health Studies

Office: Room 2340 - Somerville House; Room 202 - Arthur and Sonia Labatt Health Sciences Building
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 81576

jpolzer@uwo.ca



Research Interests

  • Sociology of health and illness
  • Social theories of health, risk and the body
  • Experiences of health and risks to health
  • Social and ethical impacts of technologies in health
  • Biotechnology, gender and medicalization

Research Affiliations

  • Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research, University of Toronto
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Teaching Areas

  • Social Determinants of Health (HS1002)
  • Women and Health (WS2154)

Graduate Student Supervision

  • Master's
  • PhD
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