Curriculum Vitae Jessica Mesman

Transcription

1 Curriculum Vitae Jessica Mesman PERSONAL DETAILS Name: Nationality: Jessica Mesman Dutch Contact details: Work address: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Maastricht University PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht The Netherlands Phone: + 31 (43) Fax: + 31 (43) j.mesman@maastrichtuniversity.nl Education Master's ( doctoraal ) University: Maastricht University, NL Date: 02/02/1990 Studies: Health Science Main subject: Philosophy of Health Science; Nursing Science Doctorate University: Maastricht University, NL Date: 2002 Supervisor ( promotor ): Prof.dr.Ir. Wiebe E. Bijker, Prof. R. de Wilde, Prof. C. Blanco Titel of Dissertation: Ervaren pioniers: Omgaan met twijfel in de intensive care voor pasgeborenen. Health Culture and Society Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology and Sociology. Amsterdam: Aksant/ Garant Employment history May 2001 to date: June 1995 to date: June 1995 to date: International Coordinator of European Masters Program European Studies on Society, Science and Technology (ESST) Director of Studies of the European Masters Program European Studies on Society, Science and Technology (ESST) at Maastricht University Assistant professor Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies: Guest researcher Maastricht University PhD student Maastricht University: Department of Philosophy. KEY PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS Research Author of three monographs (1985, 2002, 2008); editor of two volumes (Palgrave MacMillan 2009 & The MIT Press (forthcoming)) and co-author of a book (Radcliffe, forthcoming).

2 Participated in expert-meetings of the European Union, the United Nations-UNESCO, and The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development. Presentation of over 50 formal talks; 36 of these were at international conferences and 24 were invitations from national and international organization (among them Harvard, Oxford and Kings College) Prizes: Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Best Book of the Year 2009 of the Britisch Sociological Association; Winner of the NVBe Prize 2007 on Bioethics (together with Mark Coeckelbergh) of the Dutch Association for Bioethics; Runner up of the Award of the European Association of Centers for Medical Ethics (EACME). Invited scholar at the University of Linkoping, Sweden (2010), the University of Aarhus, Denmark (2009); the Research group Design of Organizational IT, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2009); the Centre for Health Communication of the University of Technology Sydney, Australia (2008). Reviews: Reviewer for more than 10 international journals and several Book Series (among them The MIT Press) and for the Australian Research Council. Advisory Editor of the section Medical Anthropology of the Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society, Wiley- Blackwell. Robert Dingwall and William Cockerham (Eds.). (Forthcoming) Membership of several professional boards and councils (European Inter-University Association on Society, Science and Technology (ESST), PRIME-Network of Excellence, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), European Association on the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)). Member of the independent interdisciplinary thinktank de 7 Dwergen on patient safety Teaching: Since 1995 Jessica Mesman acts as Director of Studies of the European Master Program on Society, Science and Technology (ESST) at Maastricht University. ESST is an international joint master's program in Science and Technology Studies. It is offered by the European Inter-University Association of Society, Science and Technology, currently comprising 18 universities in 14 countries. Since 2001 she acts as International Coordinator of this European Joined Master program as well. The focal point of her teaching activities is the field of Science and Technology Studies, notably the sociology of science and technology, and the anthropology of science. She teaches courses in these areas on PhD, Master as well as Bachelor level at Maastricht University in Medical, and Liberal Arts programs. Her teaching experience include international courses and lectures at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Istanbul Technical University (Turkey); Roskilde University Center (Denmark) Aarhus University, (Denmark); Université Louis Pasteur in

3 Strasbourg (France); University of Oslo (Norway); University of East London (Britain); University of Leuven (Belgium); The Max Planck Institut für ethnologische Forschung in Halle (Germany) and the Center for Medical Education at Lancaster University (Britain). RESEARCH OVERVIEW Project: Exnovation of Resources of Strength in Patient Safety The focus of my research is on patient safety in critical care practices. Point of departure is the claim that defining patient safety as the absence of errors and incidents is a product, I argue, of too narrow a focus. The analytical focus of patient safety research should go beyond the domain of error (deficit-model), and include analysis of the resources of strength of a sound and reliable practice. Considering the high-risk work environments involved, we have ample reason to wonder why things don t go wrong more often in complex care settings. Instead of being the error-free counterpart, I attempt to define safe practices on the basis of their own modalities. Therefore, this study is not about trouble, mistakes, imperfection, flaws, and inadequacies, but about things going well, how they are supposed to be, about the elements that constitute the fabric of safe and sound practice. This analytical scope and effort can be understood as an act of exnovation': that which is already present in practice is foregrounded and the implicit is made explicit. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), which specializes in care and treatment of severely ill newborns, is my field of study. My observations on the NICU ward allow me to identify and understand the situational rationalities involved in the preservation and recovery of patient safety in the specific context in which it occurs. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: SUMMARY My work now reaches across five fields of publication: Field of publication 1 science and technology studies Journals my work appeared in Social Studies of Science, Science as Culture, Kennis en Methode - Tijdschrift voor wetenschapsfilosofie en wetenschapsonderzoek, Krisis - Tijdschrift voor filosofie 2 bioethics Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, In de Marge: tijdschrift voor levensbeschouwing en wetenschap, European Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care 3 medical sociology/anthropology Social Science & Medicine, Qualitative Sociology, Tijdschrift voor Gezondheid en Politiek, Medische Antropologie, Beleid en Maatschappij, Journal of Family History 4 risk studies Futures, Journal of Applied Occupational Sciences 5 medicine and nursing Medisch Contact, Deutsche Hebammen Zeitschrift. Fachmagazine fur Hebammen, Tijdschrift voor Bejaarden-, Kraam-, en Ziekenverzorging 6 methodology International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches

4 Research publications: selection Journal Articles: 1. Mesman, J. (2012) Moving In With Care: about patient safety as a spatial achievement. Space and Culture, 15(1): Mesman, J. (2012) Uncertainty in Medical Innovation: experienced pioneers in neonatal care an author s reply. Medicalsociologyonline: A Journal of the BSA MedSoc Group, 6(1): Carroll, K. & Mesman, J. (2011) Ethnographic Context meets Ethnographic Biography: a challenge for the mores of doing fieldwork. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches 5(2): Mesman, J. (2009) The Geography of Patient Safety: a topical analysis of sterility. Social Science & Medicine. 69: Mesman, J Disturbing Observations as a basis for Collaborative Research. Science as Culture. Special Issue: Unpacking Intervention in STS. (16) 3: Coeckelbergh, M and J. Mesman With Hope and Imagination: imaginative moral decision-making in neonatal intensive care units. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10: Asselt van, M., J. Mesman, and S. van t Klooster, Dealing with Prognostic Uncertainty. Futures 39: Mesman, J Prognostic Differences and their Origins: a topography of experience and expectation in a neonatal intensive care unit. Qualitative Sociology. (28) 1: Mol, A. and J. Mesman Neonatal Food and the Politics of Theory: some Questions of Methods. Social Studies of Science Special Issue on the politics of SSK: Neutrality, Commitment and beyond. (26): Books Buscher, M., Goodwin, D. and Mesman, J. (Eds.) (2010) Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work: dimensions of transformative Practice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Mesman, J Uncertainty in Medical Innovation: Experienced Pioneers: in Neonatal Care. Health, Technology and Society Series. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan. Mesman, J Ervaren Pioniers: Omgaan met twijfel in de intensive care voor pasgeborenen. Health Culture and Society Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology and Sociology. Amsterdam: Aksant/ Garant Mesman, J. Angst in de hulpverlening In de reeks Verpleegkundige Studies deel 52. Lochem: De Tijdstroom.

5 Book chapters Mesman, J. (2012) Resources of Strength: an exnovation of hidden competences to preserve patient safety. In: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Patient Safety. E. Rowley & J. Waring (eds.) Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd Mesman, J. (2010) Diagnostic Work in Collaborative Practices in Neonatal Care. In: Buscher, M., Goodwin, D. and Mesman, J. (Eds.) Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work: dimensions of transformative Practice. Palgrave Macmillan. Mesman, J. (2009). Channeling Erratic Flows of Action: life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In: Risky Work environment: reappraising human work within fallible systems. Owen Ch., Wackers G., & Béguin, P. (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. Mesman, J. Aspecten van angst bij sterven In: E.Bank (red) Werken met hoofd en hart. Beschouwingen over terminale thuiszorg. Lochem: De Tijdstroom. Pp Buscher, M., Goodwin, D. and Mesman, J. (2010) Introduction: Ethnographies of diagnostic work. In: Buscher, M., Goodwin, D. and Mesman, J. (Eds.) Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work: dimensions of transformative Practice. Palgrave Macmillan. Buscher, M, Bal, R, Büscher, M., Goodwin, D. and., Mesman, J. and Smith, A. (2010) Moving towards a new view of diagnostic work: some implications. In: Buscher, M., Goodwin, D. and Mesman, J. (Eds.) Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work: dimensions of transformative Practice. Palgrave Macmillan. Romer, L., D. Nichols, H. Woods Barthel, J. Latour and J. Mesman Impact of Pediatric Critical Care on the Family, Community, and Society. In: Roger s Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care 4 th edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press Gallagher E.B., P. Schlomann, R. S. Sloan, J. Mesman, J.B. Brown, and A. Cholewinska To Enrich Bioethics, Add One Part Social to One Part Clinical. In: Bioethics and Society: Constructing the Ethical Enterprise. Raymond DeVries and Janardan Subedi (ed.) Prentice-Hall. P Bijsterveld, K., K. Horstman and J. Mesman Huilen als de maandag aanbreekt. Oudere ongehuwde vrouwen in Nederland en het spel van vergelijkingen, In: Lange levens, stille getuigen. Oudere vrouwen in het verleden. M. Stavenuiter, K. Bijsterveld & S. Jansens (red.) In de reeks: Tipje van de sluier. Walburg Pers. P Research report Landeweerd, L., Townend, D., Mesman, J. and Van Hoyweghen, I. (2012). The Best Possible Models of Governance of Science and Technology. EU-Report for Ethics in Public Policy Making: The Case of Human Enhancement (EPOCH) Bijker, W.E., A. Arundel and J. Mesman Understanding the Politics of Technology. A comparative international study of technological controversies and technology acceptance. Bonn: Büro Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag