Janet Shim, PhD
Professor
Social Behavioral Sciences
School of Nursing

Areas of Interest: Sociology of health and illness; social inequalities in health; science, technology, and medicine studies; race, gender, and class; qualitative research methods.

Awards

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• Distinguished Faculty Distinction in Teaching Award, UCSF Academic Senate, 2016
• Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award, for Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2014
• Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award nomination, UCSF Graduate Students Association and the Graduate Division Alumni Association, 2014
• Excellence in Teaching Award for Supportive Learning Environment, UCSF School of Nursing, 2012
• Mentor of the Year Award, UCSF School of Nursing Graduating Class of 2012, 2012
• Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award, American Sociological Association, 2003
• Distinguished Dissertation Award in Sociology, University of California, San Francisco, 2002
• President's Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, 2001-2002
• Graduate Student Mentorship and Research Assistantship Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 1996-1998
• Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 1995-1996

Grants and Projects

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• The Ethics of Inclusion: Diversity in Precision Medicine Research, NIH, 2018-2022
• Health literacy systems in the safety net: Lessons from complex care management, NIH, 2014-2019
• Conceptions of Race and Ethnicity Used in Gene-Environment Interaction Studies, NIH, 2010-2015
• Meanings of Race, Class, and Gender in Heart Disease, NIH, 1999-2001

Publications (94)

Top publication keywords:
Ethics, MedicalCommunity ParticipationPrecision MedicineAnthropology, CulturalCultural CompetencyBiomedical ResearchResearch PersonnelGenetic ResearchBioethicsGene-Environment InteractionGenomicsDirect-To-Consumer Screening and TestingPhotographyNurse's RoleSafety-net Providers

• Mixed Methods for Research on Support Networks of People Experiencing Chronic Illness and Social Marginalization.
  Qualitative health research 2024 Nápoles TM, Ekl EA, Nicklas J, Gómez-Pathak L, Yen IH, Carrillo D, de Leon K, Burke NJ, Perry BL, Shim JK
• Social support in the urban safety net: Assessing tie activation among individuals with complex care needs.
  Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2024 Emily A. Ekl, Tessa M. Nápoles, Irene H. Yen, Laura E. Pathak, Jeff Nicklas, Janet K. Shim, Brea L. Perry
• Patient and physician perspectives on treatments for low-risk prostate cancer: a qualitative study.
  BMC cancer 2023 Guan A, Santiago-Rodríguez EJ, Chung BI, Shim JK, Allen L, Kuo MC, Lau K, Loya Z, Brooks JD, Cheng I, DeRouen MC, Frosch DL, Golden T, Leppert JT, Lichtensztajn DY, Lu Q, Oh D, Sieh W, Wadhwa M, …
• Interrogating the Value of Return of Results for Diverse Populations: Perspectives from Precision Medicine Researchers.
  AJOB empirical bioethics 2023 McMahon CE, Foti N, Jeske M, Britton WR, Fullerton SM, Shim JK, Lee SS
• Biomedicalisation revisited: concepts and practices.
  Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine 2023 Adele E. Clarke, Melanie Jeske, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo

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• Conflating race and ancestry: Tracing decision points about population descriptors over the precision medicine research life course.
  HGG advances 2023 Bentz M, Saperstein A, Fullerton SM, Shim JK, Lee SS
• Using Photographs to Understand the Context of Health: A Novel Two-Step Systematic Process for Coding Visual Data.
  Qualitative health research 2023 Jih J, Nguyen A, Woo J, Ly A, Shim JK
• Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Process(es) of Frequent K–12 Student Mobility in Urban Contexts.
  Education and Urban Society 2023 Sarah Ryan, Robert K. Ream, Margaret Martin, Janet K. Shim, Marquita S. Brooks, Irene H. Yen
• Rethinking Benefit and Responsibility in the Context of Diversity: Perspectives from the Front Lines of Precision Medicine Research.
  Public health genomics 2023 Vasquez EE, Foti N, McMahon CE, Jeske M, Bentz M, Fullerton S, Shim JK, Lee SS
• Patient-level factors associated with the use of active surveillance: The talking about prostate cancer cohort.
  Journal of Clinical Oncology 2023 Nita Mukand, Salma Shariff-Marco, James D. Brooks, Benjamin I. Chung, John T. Leppert, Dominick Frosh, Weiva Sieh, Alice Guan, Eduardo J Santiago-Rodriguez, Peter Carroll, Janet K Shim, Mei-Chin Kuo, …
• Community Engagement in Precision Medicine Research: Organizational Practices and Their Impacts for Equity.
  AJOB empirical bioethics 2023 Shim JK, Foti N, Vasquez E, Fullerton SM, Bentz M, Jeske M, Lee SS
• Factors that influence treatment decisions: A qualitative study of racially and ethnically diverse patients with low- and very-low risk prostate cancer.
  Cancer medicine 2022 Guan A, Shim JK, Allen L, Kuo MC, Lau K, Loya Z, Brooks JD, Carroll PR, Cheng I, Chung BI, DeRouen MC, Frosch DL, Golden T, Leppert JT, Lichtensztajn DY, Lu Q, Oh DL, Sieh W, Wadhwa M, Gomez SL, …
• Targeting Representation: Interpreting Calls for Diversity in Precision Medicine Research.
  The Yale journal of biology and medicine 2022 Lee SS, Fullerton SM, McMahon CE, Bentz M, Saperstein A, Jeske M, Vasquez E, Foti N, Saco L, Shim JK
• Strategies of inclusion: The tradeoffs of pursuing "baked in" diversity through place-based recruitment.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2022 Shim JK, Bentz M, Vasquez E, Jeske M, Saperstein A, Fullerton SM, Foti N, McMahon C, Lee SS
• Beyond inclusion: Enacting team equity in precision medicine research.
  PloS one 2022 Jeske M, Vasquez E, Fullerton SM, Saperstein A, Bentz M, Foti N, Shim JK, Lee SS
• "Housing Is Health Care": Treating Homelessness in Safety-net Hospitals.
  Medical anthropology quarterly 2021 Hanssmann C, Shim JK, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Thompson-Lastad A, Rasidjan MP, Burke NJ
• Managing the "hot spots": Health care, policing, and the governance of poverty in the US.
  American ethnologist 2021 Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen I, Dubbin L, Thompson-Lastad A, Hanssmann C, Burke NJ
• Social Literacy: Nurses' Contribution Toward the Co-Production of Self-Management.
  Global qualitative nursing research 2021 Dubbin L, Burke N, Fleming M, Thompson-Lastad A, Napoles TM, Yen I, Shim JK
• Biomedicalization Revisited.
  2021 Adele E. Clarke, Melanie Jeske, Laura Mamo, Janet K. Shim
• 1 / Biomedicalization Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness , and U. S. Biomedicine.
  Biomedicalization 2020 Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman
• 2 / Charting (Bio)Medicine and (Bio)Medicalization in the United States, 1890–Present.
  Biomedicalization 2020 Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fishman, Janet K. Shim
• Biomedicalization A Theoretical and Substantive Introduction.
  Biomedicalization 2020 Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman
• Patient Engagement, Chronic Illness, and the Subject of Health Care Reform.
  Medical anthropology 2020 Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen I, Thompson-Lastad A, Burke NJ
• Ethnographic investigation of patient-provider communication among African American men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer: a study protocol.
  BMJ open 2020 Palmer NR, Shim JK, Kaplan CP, Schillinger D, Blaschko SD, Breyer BN, Pasick RJ
• Direct-to-consumer genomic testing: Are nurses prepared?
  Nursing 2020 Flowers E, Leutwyler H, Shim JK
• Empowering Patient Participation in Advance Care Planning Discussions: Audio Recordings of Primary Care Visits Among PREPARE Randomized Trial Participants (CS201B).
  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2020 Jennifer Freytag, Deborah Barnes, Ying Shi, Aiesha Volow, Janet Shim, Stewart Alexander, Rebecca Sudore
• Abstract A047: An ethnographic study of African American men's prostate cancer treatment decision-making.
  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 2020 Nynikka R. Palmer, Richard L. Street, Dean Schillinger, Janet K. Shim, Sarah D. Blaschko, Benjamin N. Breyer, Rena J. Pasick
• Abstract B053: Factors that influence prostate cancer treatment decisions: A qualitative study among a diverse, population-based sample of men with low-risk prostate cancer in Northern California.
  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 2020 Salma Shariff-Marco, Janet Shim, Laura Allen, Mei-Chin Kuo, Kathie Lau, Todd Golden, Zinnia Loya, Alice Guan, Mindy C. DeRouen, Debora Oh, Daphne Lichtensztajn, Scarlett Lin Gomez
• Different Caregiver, Different Collaboration.
  Journal of Social Behavioral and Health Sciences 2020 Helle Rønn-Smidt, Janet K Shim, Amber Fitzsimmons, Kristian Larsen, Hanne Pallesen
• Empowering Older Adults to Discuss Advance Care Planning During Clinical Visits: The PREPARE Randomized Trial.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Freytag J, Street RL, Barnes DE, Shi Y, Volow AM, Shim JK, Alexander SC, Sudore RL
• Hysteresis - or the mismatch of expectations and possibilities among relatives in a transforming health care system.
  Health sociology review : the journal of the Health Section of the Australian Sociological Association 2019 Roenn-Smidt H, Shim JK, Larsen K, Hindhede AL
• Ethics of inclusion: Cultivate trust in precision medicine.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Lee SS, Fullerton SM, Saperstein A, Shim JK
• "They Don't Trust Us": The Influence of Perceptions of Inadequate Nursing Home Care on Emergency Department Transfers and the Potential Role for Telehealth.
  Clinical nursing research 2019 Stephens CE, Halifax E, David D, Bui N, Lee SJ, Shim J, Ritchie CS
• Caring for "Super-utilizers": Neoliberal Social Assistance in the Safety-net.
  Medical anthropology quarterly 2018 Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen I, Van Natta M, Hanssmann C, Burke NJ
• Stratified citizenship, stratified health: Examining latinx legal status in the U.S. healthcare safety net.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2018 Van Natta M, Burke NJ, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Hanssmann CL, Rasidjan MP, Shim JK
• Like a Fish out of Water: Managing Chronic Pain in the Urban Safety Net.
  Journal of health and social behavior 2018 Rubin S, Burke N, Van Natta M, Yen I, Shim JK
• Knowing something versus feeling different:The effects and non-effects of genetic ancestry on racial identity.
  New genetics and society 2018 Shim JK, Alam SR, Aouizerat BE
• Complex care and contradictions of choice in the safety net.
  Sociology of health & illness 2018 Van Natta M, Burke NJ, Yen IH, Rubin S, Fleming MD, Thompson-Lastad A, Shim JK
• Assessing Patient Activation among High-Need, High-Cost Patients in Urban Safety Net Care Settings.
  Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2017 Napoles TM, Burke NJ, Shim JK, Davis E, Moskowitz D, Yen IH
• Response to commentary, "Trauma and the structuring of complex care: Back to the settlements?" by Elizabeth Bowen.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2017 Thompson-Lastad A, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Rubin S, Shim JK, Burke NJ
• Comparing Mobile Health Strategies to Improve Medication Adherence for Veterans With Coronary Heart Disease (Mobile4Meds): Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Study.
  JMIR research protocols 2017 Park LG, Collins EG, Shim JK, Whooley MA
• The Ethics of Translational Science: Imagining Public Benefit in Gene-Environment Interaction Research.
  Engaging science, technology, and society 2017 Ackerman SL, Darling KW, Lee SS, Hiatt RA, Shim JK
• The Ethics of Translational Science: Imagining Public Benefit in Gene-Environment Interaction Research.
  Engaging Science Technology and Society 2017 Sara L. Ackerman, Katherine Weatherford Darling, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Robert A. Hiatt, Janet K. Shim
• Defining trauma in complex care management: Safety-net providers' perspectives on structural vulnerability and time.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2017 Thompson-Lastad A, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Rubin S, Shim JK, Burke NJ
• Patient engagement at the margins: Health care providers' assessments of engagement and the structural determinants of health in the safety-net.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2017 Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen IH, Thompson-Lastad A, Rubin S, Van Natta M, Burke NJ
• How Neighborhoods Influence Health: Lessons to be learned from the application of political ecology.
  Health & place 2017 Chitewere T, Shim JK, Barker JC, Yen IH
• The odd couple: Using biomedicine and intersectional approaches to address health inequities
  Global Health Action 2017 Hankivsky, Olena, Lesley Doyal, Gillian Einstein, Ursula Kelly, Janet K. Shim, Lynn Weber, and Robin Repta
• Illness Narratives of African Americans Living With Coronary Heart Disease: A Critical Interactionist Analysis.
  Qualitative health research 2016 Dubbin L, McLemore M, Shim JK
• Enacting the molecular imperative: How gene-environment interaction research links bodies and environments in the post-genomic age.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2016 Darling KW, Ackerman SL, Hiatt RH, Lee SS, Shim JK
• Accounting for Complexity.
  Science Technology & Human Values 2016 Sara L. Ackerman, Katherine Weatherford Darling, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Robert A. Hiatt, Janet K. Shim
• My Bioethics Will Be Intersectional or It Will Be [Bleep].
  The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2016 Grzanka PR, Brian JD, Shim JK
• Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice: Bridging Perspectives for New Conversations, edited by Michele Rivkin-Fish, Mara Buchbinder, and Rebecca Walker
  Cultural health capital: A sociological intervention into patient-centered care and the Affordable Care Act 2016 Shim, Janet K., Jamie Suki Chang, and Leslie A. Dubbin
• Negotiating substance use stigma: the role of cultural health capital in provider-patient interactions.
  Sociology of health & illness 2015 Chang J, Dubbin L, Shim J
• Provider Perspectives on the Influence of Family on Nursing Home Resident Transfers to the Emergency Department: Crises at the End of Life.
  Current gerontology and geriatrics research 2015 Stephens C, Halifax E, Bui N, Lee SJ, Harrington C, Shim J, Ritchie C
• Accounting for Complexity: Gene-environment Interaction Research and the Moral Economy of Quantification.
  Science, technology & human values 2015 Ackerman SL, Darling KW, Lee SS, Hiatt RA, Shim JK
• Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals, and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements, edited by Susan Bell and Anne Figert
  Reimagining race and ancestry: Biomedicalizing difference in post-genomic subjects 2015 Shim, Janet K., Katherine Weatherford Darling, Sara L. Ackerman, Robert A. Hiatt, and Sandra Soo-Jin Lee
• Race and ancestry in the age of inclusion: technique and meaning in post-genomic science.
  Journal of health and social behavior 2014 Shim JK, Ackerman SL, Darling KW, Hiatt RA, Lee SS
• Homogeneity and heterogeneity as situational properties: producing--and moving beyond?--race in post-genomic science.
  Social studies of science 2014 Shim JK, Darling KW, Lappe MD, Thomson LK, Lee SS, Hiatt RA, Ackerman SL
• Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease
  Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease 2014 Janet K. Shim
• Jones, D.S. Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 336pp. $34.95 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-421-40801-9.
  Sociology of Health & Illness 2013 Janet K. Shim
• Cultural health capital and the interactional dynamics of patient-centered care.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2013 Dubbin LA, Chang JS, Shim JK
• Older people and social connectedness: how place and activities keep people engaged.
  Journal of aging research 2012 Yen IH, Shim JK, Martinez AD, Barker JC
• Application of Two Schools of Social Theory to Neighbourhood, Place and Health Research.
  Rethinking Social Epidemiology 2012 Irene H. Yen, Janet K. Shim, Airín D. Martínez
• Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing: Blueprint for the 21st Century, edited by Pescosolido B, Martin JK, McLeod JD, and Rogers A
  Medicalization and biomedicalization revisited: Technoscience and transformations of health, illness, and American medicine 2011 Clarke AE and Shim JK
• Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change, edited by O’Campo P and Dunn J
  Application of two schools of social theory for neighbourhood, place, and health research 2011 Yen IH, Shim JK, Martinez AD
• Medicalization and Biomedicalization Revisited: Technoscience and Transformations of Health, Illness and American Medicine.
  Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing 2010 Adele E. Clarke, Janet Shim
• The end of the epidemiology wars? Epidemiological ‘ethics’ and the challenge of translation.
  BioSocieties 2010 Janet K Shim, L Katherine Thomson
• Cultural health capital: A theoretical approach to understanding health care interactions and the dynamics of unequal treatment.
  Journal of health and social behavior 2010 Shim JK
• Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the U.S
  Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the U.S. 2010 Clarke AE, Mamo L, Fosket JR, Fishman JR, and Shim JK (eds.)
• Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the U.S., edited by Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim
  Biomedicalization: A theoretical and substantive introduction 2010 Clarke AE, Shim JK, Mamo L, Fosket JR, Fishman JR
• The End of the Epidemiology Wars? Epidemiological ‘Ethics’ and the Challenge of Translation
  BioSocieties 2010 Shim JK and Thomson LK
• The stratified biomedicalization of heart disease: Expert and lay perspectives on racial and class inequality
  Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the U.S., edited by Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim 2010 Shim JK
• Biomedicalization.
  2009 Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman
• Biomedicalization.
  2009 Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman
• Charting (Bio)Medicine and (Bio)Medicalization in the United States, 1890-Present.
  2009 Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fishman, Janet K. Shim
• Medicalization and biomedicalization revisited: Technoscience and transformations of health, illness, and biomedicine
  Salute e Società (Health and Society) 2009 Clarke, Adele E. and Janet K. Shim
• Late-life cardiac interventions and the treatment imperative.
  PLoS medicine 2008 Shim JK, Russ AJ, Kaufman SR
• The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, edited by Conrad P
  ‘Choosing later’ about dialysis treatment near the end of life 2008 Russ AJ, Shim JK, Kaufman SR
• The value of "life at any cost": talk about stopping kidney dialysis.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2007 Russ AJ, Shim JK, Kaufman SR
• Clinical life: expectation and the double edge of medical promise.
  Health (London, England : 1997) 2007 Shim JK, Russ AJ, Kaufman SR
• Old age, life extension, and the character of medical choice.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2006 Kaufman SR, Shim JK, Russ AJ
• Risk, life extension and the pursuit of medical possibility.
  Sociology of health & illness 2006 Shim JK, Russ AJ, Kaufman SR
• Aged bodies and kinship matters: The ethical field of kidney transplant.
  American ethnologist 2006 Kaufman SR, Russ AJ, Shim JK
• Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations, edited by Chen NN and Moglen H
  Aged bodies and kinship matters: The biologization of moral commitment 2006 Kaufman SR, Russ AJ, Shim JK
• "Is there life on dialysis?": time and aging in a clinically sustained existence.
  Medical anthropology 2005 Russ AJ, Shim JK, Kaufman SR
• Constructing ‘Race’ Across the Science-Lay Divide.
  Social Studies of Science 2005 Janet K. Shim
• Revisiting the biomedicalization of aging: clinical trends and ethical challenges.
  The Gerontologist 2004 Kaufman SR, Shim JK, Russ AJ
• CHWs get credit: a 10-year history of the first college-credit certificate for community health workers in the United States.
  Health promotion practice 2004 Love MB, Legion V, Shim JK, Tsai C, Quijano V, Davis C
• Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine.
  American Sociological Review 2003 Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman
• Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine.
  American Sociological Review 2003 Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fishman, Janet K. Shim, Jennifer Ruth Fosket
• Biomedicalization: Technoscientific transformations of health, illness, and U.S. biomedicine
  American Sociological Review 2003 Clarke AE, Shim JK, Mamo L, Fosket JR, and Fishman JR
• Understanding the routinised inclusion of race, socioeconomic status and sex in epidemiology: the utility of concepts from technoscience studies.
  Sociology of Health & Illness 2002 Janet K. Shim
• Bio-power and racial, class, and gender formation in biomedical knowledge production
  Research in the Sociology of Health Care 2000 Shim, JK
• Technosciences et nouvelle biomédicalisation : racines occidentales, rhizomes mondiaux.
  Sciences sociales et santé 2000 Adèle E. Clarke, Jennifer R. Fishman, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo, Janet K. Shim