Elizabeth Armstrong

E-Mail: ema@princeton.edu

Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology and Demography, University of Pennsylvania, 1998. Interests: sociology of medicine, history of medicine and public health, biomedical ethics, population health, sociology of pregnancy.

Recent Activities

Elizabeth Armstrong served on the Governing Body
of the Lamaze International Certification Council, as
an Expert Committee Member for the Physicians for
Reproductive Choice and Health, Committee on the
Status of the Fetus, and as Health Policy Chair of the
Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological
Association. She gave lectures at Duke University,
the University of California at San Francisco, Rutgers
University, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins
University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Medical
Society of New Jersey, the American Public Health
Association annual meeting, and at the Eastern
Sociological Society annual meeting.

Recent Publications

Armstrong, E.M. Drug and Alcohol Use During Pregnancy:
We Need to Protect, Not Punish, Women. Womens Health
Issues, 15(2):45-47. 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. Evidence and Ethics in Obstetrics: The Use
and Misuse of Risk. Presented at the American Public
Health Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA.
December, 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. Fetal Personhood: The Raw Edge of
Obstetrical Practice and Ethics. Presented at the Eastern
Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Mini-conference on
Sociology and Bioethics. Washington, DC. March, 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. Whose Deaths Matter? Mortality,
Advocacy, and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media.
Presented at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health
and Society Scholars, University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, PA. December 1, 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. The Work-Family See-Saw: Some Days
Youre Up, Some Days Youre Down. Presented at the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society
Scholars Annual Meeting. Columbia University, New York,
NY. October 10, 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. Imaging Fetuses, Imagining Babies:
Pictures and Personhood on the Raw Edge of Obstetrics.
Presented at the Medical Society of New Jersey.
Lawrenceville, NJ. June 23, 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Social, Legal and
Policy Responses to Drinking During Pregnancy.
Presented at the Grand Rounds, Obstetrics and
Gynecology. University of California, San Francisco, CA.
May 3, 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. Imaging Fetuses, Imagining Babies:
Pictures and Personhood on the Raw Edge of Obstetrics.
Presented at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy
and Aging Research. Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
NJ. April 14, 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Social, Legal and
Policy Responses to Drinking During Pregnancy. Presented at
the Grand Rounds, Obstetrics and Gynecology. Duke
University Medical Center, Durham, NC. March 30, 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. Drinking Mothers and Sober Wives:
Alcohol, Female Responsibility, and Familial Harm in 20th
Century America. Presented at the Center for the Study of
Medical Ethics and Humanities. Duke University, Durham,
NC. March 30, 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Presented at the
Alcohol: Brain, Individual and Society. Duke University,
Durham, NC. March 31, 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. Alcohol and Drug Use During Pregnancy:
How Ought We Respond. Presented at the Greenwall
Bioethics Seminar. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
MD. February 1, 2005.

Armstrong, E.M. How Should American Society Cope with
Death? Socio/Political Perspectives. Presented at the
University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics 10th
Anniversary Symposium, The Legacy of the Teri Schiavo
Case: Why is it so Hard to Die in America? Philadelphia,
PA. May 1, 2006.

Armstrong, E.M. Whose Deaths Matter? Mortality,
Advocacy, and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media.
Presented at the Michael Davis Seminar, University of
Chicago School of Social Administration. Chicago, IL.
April 19, 2006.

Armstrong, E.M., Carpenter, D., and Hojnacki, M. Whose
Deaths Matter? Mortality, Advocacy, and Attention to
Disease in the Mass Media. Journal of Health Policy, Politics
and Law. Forthcoming.

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