Deborah Gordon, PhD
Assistant Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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  • Ph.D. Graduate Division (Medical Anthropology) University of California, San Francisco/ University of California, Berkeley 1984

Grants and Projects

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Publications (56)

Top publication keywords:
Qualitative ResearchBiological Specimen BanksInformation DisseminationFamilyDisclosureNursing CarePatient PreferenceMusculoskeletal DiseasesPancreatic NeoplasmsEthics, ResearchMoral ObligationsGenetic ResearchOccupational HealthPersonnel, HospitalGenetic Privacy

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  • Preferences Regarding Return of Genomic Results to Relatives of Research Participants, Including after Participant Death: Empirical Results from a Cancer Biobank
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2015
  • Preferences Regarding Return of Genomic Results to Relatives of Research Participants, Including after Participant Death: Empirical Results from a Cancer Biobank.
    The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2015 Breitkopf CR, Petersen GM, Wolf SM, Chaffee KG, Robinson ME, Gordon DR, Lindor NM, Koenig BA
  • S. Gibbon, G. Joseph, J. Mozersky et al. (eds) Breast cancer research and medical practices: transnational perspectives in the time of BRCA. Gibbon, S Joseph, G Mozersky J et al
    It takes a particular world to produce and enact BRCA testing: The US had it, Italy had another 2014 D.R. Gordon
  • Integrating common and rare genetic variation in diverse human populations.
    Nature 2010 International HapMap 3 Consortium, Altshuler DM, Gibbs RA, Peltonen L, Altshuler DM, Gibbs RA, Peltonen L, Dermitzakis E, Schaffner SF, Yu F, Peltonen L, Dermitzakis E, Bonnen PE, Altshuler DM, Gibbs …
  • Connecting work environment and health: An Introduction. In: Schnall, P. Dobson, M. Roskam, E. Landsbergs,P. Bakers, D
    Unhealthy work: Causes, costs and consequences. Amitaville, Baywood Publishers. 2009
  • Stakeholder perspectives: Searching for common ground. In: Schnall, P. Dobson, M. Roskam, E. Gordon, DR. Landsbergis, P. Baker, D
    Unhealthy work: Causes, costs and consequences. Amitaville, Baywood Publishers. 2009 Gordon, DR. Jauringui, M. Schnall, P.
  • Unhealthy work: Causes, costs and consequences. Amitaville, Baywood Publishers
    Unhealthy work: Causes, costs and consequences. Amitaville, Baywood Publishers. 2009
  • Integrating qualitative research into occupational health: a case study among hospital workers.
    Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2005 Gordon DR, Ames GM, Yen IH, Gillen M, Aust B, Rugulies R, Frank JW, Blanc PD
  • The psychosocial work environment and musculoskeletal disorders: design of a comprehensive interviewer-administered questionnaire.
    American journal of industrial medicine 2004 Rugulies R, Braff J, Frank JW, Aust B, Gillen M, Yen IH, Bhatia R, Ames G, Gordon DR, Janowitz I, Oman D, Jacobs BP, Blanc P
  • Cancro nell'immaginario collettivo ('Cancer in collective imagination') In:
    Handbook of Psico-oncologia Milano: Masson. 2002 D Gordon
  • Narrazione e qualita' di vita alla fine della vita: cos'a impariamo? (Narrative and quality of life at the end of life: what do we learn?) In:
    Salute e Territorio (Health and Community) 2002
  • Differenze della prevenzione del tumore al seno tra donne americane e italiane. Intervista con Deborah Gordon (Differences in Prevention of breast cancer among USA and Italian women. An Interview with Deborah Gordon)
    Corriere della Sera 2001
  • Informazione, comunicazione e consenso informato: risultati di un questionario ('Information, communication and informed consent: results from a questionnaire')
    L'attivita' della comissione regional di bioetica. Regione Toscana, Giunta Regionale: Florence 2001
  • Narrazione e Fine della Vita: Qualita' della vita e della Morte ("Narrative and the End of Life: Quality of Life and Death") Milan: Franco Angeli
    Narrazione e Fine della Vita: Qualita' della vita e della Morte ("Narrative and the End of Life: Quality of Life and Death") Milan: Franco Angeli. 2001
  • "Being 'in sync': Communication and non in Oncological Settings
    "Being 'in sync': Communication and non in Oncological Settings 2000 Gordon, DR Paci, E. Distante, V. Simoncini, R. Catalliotti, C.
  • Editoriale su consenso informato: Il parere di (Editorial on informed consent. The opinion of Deborah Gordon)
    Attualita' in Senologia 1999
  • Alla fine della vita. La morte tra diritti e doveri ('At the End of Life: Death between Rights and Obligations'). Florence: Regione Toscana
    Alla fine della vita. La morte tra diritti e doveri ('At the End of Life: Death between Rights and Obligations'). Florence: Regione Toscana 1998
  • La narrazione vissuta alla fine della vita ('Lived narratives at the end of life') In: Ferrari, C. Barneschi, G. Gordon, DR. et al
    Alla fine della vita. La morte tra diritti e doveri ('At the End of Life: Death between Rights and Obligations'). Firenze: Regione Toscana. 1998
  • Disclosure practices and cultural narratives: understanding concealment and silence around cancer in Tuscany, Italy.
    Social science & medicine (1982) 1997 Gordon DR, Paci E
  • Information, Communication and Informed Consent
    Information, Communication and Informed Consent 1997 Gordon, DR Cini, R. Petrarchi, A Paci, E.
  • Parlare o tacere: Narrazioni culturali ('To speak or be silent: Cultural narratives and cancer')
    L'Arco di Giano 1997 Gordon, D. Paci, E.
  • Riflessioni sui risultati di uno studio etnografico sulla qualita' della qualita' di vita e della morte in malati terminali di cancro ('Reflections on the results of an ethnographic study on the quality of life and death of terminal ill cancer patients')
    Quaderni di Cure Palliative 1997 Peruselli, C. Marinari, M. Gordon, D.
  • "Stories in the Making and Unmaking: Exploring narrative in clinical practice through video"
    "Stories in the Making and Unmaking: Exploring narrative in clinical practice through video" 1996 Gordon, Dr. Cini, R. Petrarchi, A. Miccinesi, G. Paci, E.
  • Informazione, comunicazione, e consensus informato (Information, communication, and informed consent) (Video in Italian, 35 minutes)
    Informazione, comunicazione, e consensus informato (Information, communication, and informed consent) (Video in Italian, 35 minutes) 1996
  • Narrative and Quality of Life In: Spilker, B
    Quality of life and pharmacoeconomics in clinical trials. Second edition, Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia 1996
  • Etica medica: Comunicare la malattia: lo sfondo culturale del terepeuta come condizione centrale nel rapporto medico/paziente ('Medical ethics and communication: The physician's cultural background as a central condition of the physician/patient relationship')
    1995 Gordon, D
  • Il "narrative," la fine della vita e la cultura ("Narrative, the end of life, and culture")
    Bollettino Medico dell'Ospedale di Careggi 1995 Gordon, D.
  • Lo sfondo culturale e la comunicazione della diagnosi di cancro in Toscana ('Cultural background and communication of a cancer diagnosis in Tuscany')
    Psicomed 1995 Gordon, D.
  • Quali nuove ricerche psicosociali nelle Cure Palliative? ('What new psycho-social research directions in Palliative care?')
    Quaderni di Cure Palliative 1995 Gordon, D.
  • Quanti diversi aspetti in un colloquio di cure palliative! ('So many Issues in a Palliative Care Conversation!)
    Quanti diversi aspetti in un colloquio di cure palliative! ('So many Issues in a Palliative Care Conversation!) 1995 Paci, E. Gordon, D. Petrarchi, A. Cini, R.
  • La modalita' della comunicazione della malattia cancro e lo sfondo culturale ('Communication modality around cancer and cultural background'). In: Bressi, C. Invernizzi, G
    La Comunicazione con il Paziente Oncologico ('Communication with the Oncological Patient'). Milano: Grafica Giuliani 1994
  • The ethics of ambiguity and concealment around cancer: Interpretations through a local Italian world. In: Benner, P
    Interpretive Phenomenology: Embodiment, Caring and Ethics in Health and Illness. London: Sage Publication 1994
  • La cura domiciliare: antropologia culturale ('Home care: the view from cultrual anthropology)
    Journal of Medical ethics and Humanities 1993 Gordon, D.
  • La malattia? Se deve venire, viene lo stesso: Riflessione sulla partecipazione nei programmi di screening ('The disease?: If it's meant to come, it will come anyway:' Reflections on screening programs')
    LILT 1993 Gordon, D. Venturini, A.
  • The phenomenology of knowing the patient.
    Image--the journal of nursing scholarship 1993 Tanner CA, Benner P, Chesla C, Gordon DR
  • Aspetti etici, culturali e psicologi della comunicazione della diagnosi di tumore ('Ethical, cultural and psychological aspects of communication of a cancer diagnosis') In: Invernizzi, G
    La Psico-oncologia degli Anni 90 ('Psyco-oncology in the 90's). Milano: Grafica Giuliani. 1992
  • Fattori del rischio per tumore al seno: punto di vista delle donne ('Risk factors for breast cancer: the women's perspective'). In: Napoli, R
    Ricerca sul Tumore al Seno. Milan: Masson 1992
  • La comunicazione della diagnosi di tumore ('Communication and a cancer diagnosis)
    LILT 1992 Gordon, D.
  • Culture, cancer and communication in Italy. In: Pfleiderer, B. Bibeau, G
    Anthropologies of Medicine: A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives. Curare, Special Edition 7/91. 1991
  • What healthy women think, feel and do about cancer, prevention and breast cancer screening in Italy.
    European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) 1991 Gordon DR, Venturini A, Del Turco MR, Palli D, Paci E
  • Embodying illness, embodying cancer.
    Culture, medicine and psychiatry 1990 Gordon DR
  • Traversing boundaries: European and North American perspectives on medical and psychiatric anthropology.
    Culture, medicine and psychiatry 1990
  • 'Vivendo questa nostra storia': La voce della donna. ("Living this story of ours": The voice of the women'). In: Paci, E. Venturini, A
    Dall' esperienza della Malattia una Nuova Cultura ('From the Experience of Illness a New Culture'). Firenze: Comune di Firenze e Lega Contro, Tumori. 1989
  • Biomedicine Examined. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic
    Biomedicine Examined. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic 1988
  • Clinical science and clinical expertise: Changing boundaries between art and science in medicine. In: Lock, M. Gordon, Dr
    Biomedicine Examined. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academics. 1988
  • Relationships between society, culture and biomedicine: Introduction to the essays In: Lock, M. Gordon, DR
    Biomedicine Examined. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic 1988
  • Tenacious assumptions in western medicine. In: Lock, M. Gordon, DR
    Biomedicine Examined. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academics. 1988
  • American medicine: From center to periphery
    Theme issue of social science and medicine 1986
  • Models of clinical expertise in American nursing practice.
    Social science & medicine (1982) 1986 Gordon DR
  • The 'state of the art' of medical anthropology in Italy
    Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1986 Pandolfi, M. Gordon, DR
  • Identifying the use and abuse of formal models in nursing practice. In: Benner, P
    From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice. Addison Wesley, Menlo-Park 1984