Professor Clare Williams
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Director Centre for Biomedicine & Society - CBAS
Director London & Brighton Translational Ethics Centre - LABTEC (Wellcome Trust)
Professor of Social Science of Biomedicine
School of Social Science & Public Policy
Having worked as a nurse and health visitor for 20 years, I completed my PhD in 1998, with the support of a Department of Health Research Training Fellowship. I joined King's College London in 2001 to I undertake my post doctoral fellowship, funded by the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme. In 2003 I was promoted to Senior Research Fellow, became a Reader in 2005 and a Professor in 2006. Together with Professor Steven Wainwright, in 2007 I developed the new Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS) and an associated MSc in Medicine, Science & Society within the School of Social Science & Public Policy at King’s.
RESEARCH
My research focuses on the clinical, ethical and social implications of innovative health technologies, particularly from the perspective of health care practitioners and scientists; and on the influences of gender on health.
Current research grants:
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Strategic Award
LABTEC - The London & Brighton Translational Ethics Centre
The ethics of translational research: from ‘unnatural entities’ to experimental treatments
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme
Ethical frameworks for embryo donation;
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Developing Countries PhD Studentship
Ethics, policy and regulation of human embryonic stem cell research in Iran;
ESRC Stem Cell Initiative
Spaces of stem cell science: exploring processes of translational research;
ESRC Stem Cell Initiative Visiting Fellowships:
a) Global dynamics of translational stem cell research: UK & US perspectives;
b) Making models of man? UK and Italian perspectives on chimeras and stem cell research.
ESRC-SSRC Fellowship
The challenges of translational research in genetics: A US-UK collaboration.
Projects completed in 2007:
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme project
Facilitating choice, framing choice: experiences of staff working in pre-implantation genetic diagnosis;
ESRC Stem Cell Initiative project
Mapping stem cell innovation in action: the interface between the bench and the bedside.
(graded 'outstanding' by the ESRC)
Projects completed since 2001
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme project
Ethical and clinical dilemmas of the changing status of the fetus for practitioners and policy makers;
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme project
Clinical and ethical dilemmas of genetic and reproductive developments for health practitioners;
ESRC/MRC Innovative Health Technologies Programme
Social implications of innovative first trimester antenatal screening.
TEACHING
I am responsible for the Dissertation module for our MSc in Medicine, Science and Society. My recent teaching has been in the areas of clinical and ethical dilemmas of antenatal screening and stem cell research, and qualitative methodologies. Two recently completed doctoral studies examined how paternal rights and responsibilities are generated (Wellcome Trust funded); and family management of illness in children.
My current PhD / Post-Doctoral researchers:
Edison Bicudo (Capes PhD), Drug trials in developing countries;
Teodor Mladenov (King's Graduate School PhD), Being disabled: encounters between Heideggerian thought and disabilty studies;
Dr Andrew Papanikitas (PhD) Making hard moral choices: How do UK general practitioners identify and reconcile ethical conflict?
James Porter (Wellcome Trust Post-Doc), Creating ‘chimeras’? Scientists’ views on inter-species embryos;
Mansooreh Saniei (Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Developing Countries PhD Studentship), Ethics, policy and regulation of human embryonic stem cell research in Iran.
KEY PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2000-2004 elected committee member of the British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group, with joint responsibility for organising the annual conference;
2002 - Editorial Board, and now one of the Editors of Sociology of Health & Illness;
2003-2008 King's College Research Ethics Committee;
2005 - Editorial Commitee (now Editorial Board) of the new Royal Society of Medicine journal, Clinical Ethics;
2005-2008 External Examiner for the MSc in Genetic Counselling, University of Cardiff;
2006-2009 UK member of European Science Foundation European Co-operation in the field of Scientific & Technological (ESF COST) Research Committee which awards EU Framework Programme academic networking grants;
2007-2010 External Examiner for the MSc Medical Sociology, Royal Holloway, University of London;
2007 - Panel Member of the Department of Health National Institute for Health Research Personal Awards Scheme for Career Scientists and Postdoctoral Fellowships.
2009-2012 - Honorary Professor, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia.
I review Wellcome Trust, Nuffield Foundation and ESRC grant proposals, and evaluate ESRC end of project reports and Professorial Fellowships.
PUBLICATIONS
Williams, C. & Wainwright, S.P. (2010) Sociological reflections on ethics, embryonic stem cells and translational research. In Capps, B.J. & Campbell, A.V. (Eds) Bioethics and the Global Politics of Stem Cell Science: Medical Applications in a Pluralistic World, London: Imperial College Press, and Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.
Ehrich, K. & Williams, C. (2010) A ‘Healthy Baby’: The double imperative of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Health (in press).
Ehrich, K., Williams, C. & Farsides, B. (2010) Consenting Futures: Professional views on social, clinical and ethical aspects of information feedback to embryo donors in human embryonic stem cell research. Clinical Ethics (in press).
Wainwright, S.P. Michael, M. & Williams, C. (2009) Shifting paradigms? Reflections on regenerative medicine, embryonic stem cells and pharmaceuticals. In Williams, S.J. Gabe, J. & Davis, P. (Eds) Pharmaceuticals & Society: Critical Discourses & Debates, Sociology of Health & Illness Monograph, Oxford: Blackwell.
Seale, C. Gabe, J. Wainwright, S.P. & Williams, C. (2009) Editorial: Sociology of Health & Illness - New Developments. Sociology of Health & Illness, 31: 941-946.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M. &.Cribb, A. (2009) Stem cells, translational research and the sociology of science. In Atkinson, P. Glasner, P. & Lock, M. (Eds) Handbook of Genetics & Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era. London: Routledge.
Wainwright, S.P. Michael, M. & Williams, C. (2008) Shifting paradigms? Reflections on regenerative medicine, embryonic stem cells and pharmaceuticals. Specal Issue on 'Pharmaceuticals & Society: Critical Discourses & Debates', Sociology of Health & Illness 30 959-974.
Ehrich, K. Williams, C. & Farsides, B. (2008) The embryo as moral work object: PGD/IVF staff views and experiences. Sociology of Health & Illness 30 772-787.
Cribb, A. Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M & Farsides, B. (2008) Towards the applied: the construction of ethical positions in stem cell translational research. Medicine, Health Care & Philosophy 11 351-361.
Wainwright, S.P. & Williams, C. (2008) Spaces of speech and places of performance: an outline of a geography of science approach to embryonic stem cell research and diabetes. Special Issue, ‘Stem Cell Spaces, Places and Flows’ New Genetics & Society 27 161-173.
Seale, C. Gabe, J. Wainwright, S.P. & Williams, C. (2008) Editorial - Sociology of Health and Illness: a moment to reflect. Sociology of Health & Illness 30 655-658.
Williams, C. Wainwright, S.P. Ehrich, K. & Michael, M. (2008) Human embryos as boundary objects? Some reflections on the biomedical worlds of embryonic stem cells and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. New Genetics & Society 27 7-18.
Ives, J. Draper, H. Pattison, H. & Williams, C. (2008) Becoming a father / refusing fatherhood: an empirical bioethics approach to paternal responsibility. Clinical Ethics 3 75-84.
El-Toukhy, T. Williams, C. & Braude, P. (2008) The ethics of PGD. The Obstetrician & Gynacologist 10 49-54.
Lewando Hunt, G. Sandall, J. Spencer, K. Heyman, B. Wiiliams, C. Grellier, R. Pitson, L. & Tsouroufil, M. (2008) Experiences of first trimester antenatal screening in a one-stop clinic. British Journal of Midwifery, 16(3) 156-159.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Farsides, C. Michael, M. & Cribb, A. (2007) Ethical boundary-work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory. In de Vries, R. et al (Ed) The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences SHI Monograph, Oxford: Blackwell.
Ehrich, K. Williams, C. Farsides, B., Sandall, J., Scott, R. (2007) Choosing embryos: ethical complexity in staff accounts of PGD. Sociology of Health & Illness 29 1091-1106.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M. Farsides, B. & Cribb, A. (2007) Remaking the body? Scientists' genetic discourses and practices as examples of changing expectations on embryonic stem cell therapy for diabetes. New Genetics & Society 26 251-268.
Ehrich, K. Farsides, B. Williams, C. & Scott, R. (2007) Testing the embryo, testing the fetus. Clinical Ethics 4 181-186.
Michael, M. Wainwright, S.P. & Williams, C. (2007) Temporality and prudence: on stem cells as ‘phronesic things’. Special Issue on 'Time-Politics of Technology' Configurations 13 373-394.
Williams, C. Ehrich, K. Farsides, B. & Scott, R. (2007) Facilitating choice, framing choice: staff views on widening the scope of PGD in the UK. Social Science & Medicine 65 1094-1105.
Scott, R. Williams, C. Ehrich, K. & Farsides, B. (2007) The appropriate extent of PGD: health professionals’ views on the requirement for a ‘significant risk of a serious genetic condition’. Medical Law Review 15(3) 320-356.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M. Farsides, C. & Cribb, A. (2007) Ethical boundary-work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory. In de Vries, R. et al (Ed) The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences. Sociology of Health & Illness Monograph, Oxford: Blackwell.
Michael, M. Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Farsides, B. & Cribb, A. (2007) From core set to assemblage: on the dynamics of exclusion and inclusion in the failure to derive beta cells from embryonic stem cells. Science Studies 20(1) 5-25.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. & Turner, B. (2007) Globalisation, habitus and the balletic body. Cultural Studies -Critical Methodologies 7 308-325.
Wainwright, S., Williams, C. & Turner, B. (2006) Varieties of habitus and the embodiment of ballet. Qualitative Research 6: 535-558.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Persaud, S. & Jones, P. (2006) Real science, biological bodies and stem cells: constructing images of beta cells in the biomedical science lab. Social Theory & Health 4: 275-298.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M. Farsides, B. & Cribb, A. (2006) From bench to bedside? Biomedical scientists’ expectations of stem cell science as a future therapy for diabetes. Social Science & Medicine 63 2052-2064.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M. Farsides, C. & Cribb, A. (2006) Ethical boundary-work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory. Special Issue, de Vries, R. et al (Ed) 'The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences'. Sociology of Health & Illness 28: 732-748.
Williams, C. (2006) User involvement in empirical ethics research. Clinical Ethics 1: 94.
Ehrich, K., Williams, C. Scott, R., Sandall, J., & Farsides, B. (2006) Social welfare, genetic welfare? Boundary work in the IVF/PGD clinic. Social Science & Medicine 63: 1213-1224
Williams, C. (2006). The value of social science approaches to clinical ethics research. Clinical Ethics 1: 37-38.
Williams, C. (2006) Dilemmas in fetal medicine: premature application of technology or responding to womens choice? Sociology of Health & Illness 28: 1-20.
Heyman B., Lewando Hundt G., Sandall J., Spencer K., Williams C. et al (2006) On being at higher risk: prenatal screening for chromosomal anomalies. Social Science & Medicine 62: 2360-2372.
Kitzinger, J., & Williams, C. (2006) Forecasting science futures: legitimising hope and calming fears in the embryo stem cell debate. In Deane-Drummond, C. & Scott, P.M. (Eds) Future Perfect? God, Medicine & Human Identity, Edinburgh: A&T Clark.
Kitzinger, J. Williams, C. & Henderson, L. (2006) Science, media and society: the framing of bioethical debates around embryonic stem cell research between 2000 and 2005. In Glasner, P. Atkinson, P. & Greenslade, H. (Eds) New Genetics, New Social Formations London: Routledge.
Williams, C., Sandall, J., Lewando-Hundt, G. et al. (2005) Women as moral pioneers? Experiences of first trimester antenatal screening. Social Science & Medicine 61: 1983-92.
Williams, C. (2005) Framing the fetus in medical work: representations and practices. Social Science & Medicine 60: 2085-2095.
Kitzinger, J. & Williams, C. (2005) Forecasting science futures: legitimising hope and calming fears in the embryo stem cell debate. Social Science & Medicine 61: 731-40.
Wainwright, S., & Williams, C. (2005) Culture and ageing: reflections on the Arts & Nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing 52: 518-525.
Wainwright, S. & Williams, C. (2005) The embodiment of vulnerability: a case study of the life of Leoš Janáček, and his opera The Makropulos Case. Body & Society 11: 27-41.
Wainwright, S., Williams, C. & Turner, B. (2005) Fractured identities: narratives of injury and the balletic body. Health 9: 49-66.
Williams, C. Alderson, P. & Farsides, B. (2005) Interdisciplinary Research: culture clash or the best of both worlds? Reflections on Research: The Realities of Doing Research in the Social Sciences. In (Eds) Lawton, J. Gregory, S. & Hallowell, N. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Farsides, B., Williams, C. & Alderson, P. (2004) Aiming towards ‘moral’ equilibrium’: health care professionals’ views on working within the morally contested field of antenatal screening. Journal of Medical Ethics 30: 505-509.
Alderson, P., Williams, C., & Farsides, B. (2004) Practitioners’ views about equity within prenatal services. Sociology 38: 61-80.
Wainwright, S., & Williams, C. (2004) Giselle, madness and death. Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 30: 79-81.
Wainwright, S. & Williams, C. (2004) Biography and vulnerability: loss, dying and death in the Romantic paintings of JMW Turner. Auto/Biography 12: 251-268.
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2003) What constitutes balanced information in practitioners portrayals of Downs syndrome? MIDIRS Midwifery Digest 13:54-60.
Williams, C. Kitzinger, J., & Henderson, L. (2003) Envisaging the embryo in stem cell research: discursive strategies and media reporting of the ethical debates. Sociology of Health & Illness 25: 793-814.
Williams, C. (2003) The personalisation of the fetus or, He looks just like his father! MIDIRS Midwifery Digest 13: 47-49.
Williams, C. (2002) Mothers, Young People and Chronic Illness. Aldershot: Ashgate Press. (shortlisted for Sociology of Health and Illness 2004 Book Prize; nominated for 2004 Basker Anthropology Book Prize).
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2002) Too many choices? Hospital and community staff reflect on the future of prenatal screening. Social Science & Medicine 55: 743-753.
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2002) Is nondirectiveness possible within the context of antenatal screening and testing? Social Science & Medicine 54: 17-25.
Williams, C. Alderson, P.,& Farsides, B. (2002) ‘Drawing the line’ in prenatal screening and testing: health practitioners’ discussions. Health, Risk & Society 4: 61-75.
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2002) Dilemmas encountered by health practitioners offering nuchal translucency screening: a qualitative case study. Prenatal Diagnosis 22: 216-220.
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2002) What constitutes balanced information in practitioners portrayals of Downs syndrome? Midwifery 18: 230-37.
Alderson, P., Williams, C. & Farsides, B. (2002) Examining ethics in practice: health service professionals’ evaluations of in-hospital ethics seminars. Journal of Nursing Ethics 9: 518-531.
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2001) Conflicting perceptions of the fetus: person, patient, ‘nobody’, commodity? New Genetics & Society 20:225-238.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2001) The clinical and educational experiences of pre-registration house officers in general practice. Medical Education 35: 774-781.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2001) The doctor-patient relationship: from undergraduate assumptions to pre-registration reality. Medical Education 35: 743-747.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2001) PRHO rotations incorporating general practice: does the order of rotation matter? Medical Education 35: 572-577.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2001) Pre-registration house officers in general practice: the views of GP trainers. Family Practice 18: 619-21.
Williams, C. & Cantillon, P. (2000) A surgical career? The views of junior women doctors. Medical Education 34: 602-607.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2000) Pre-registration rotations into general practice: the concerns of PRHOs and the views of hospital consultants. Medical Education 34: 716-720.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2000) PRHO rotations incorporating general practice. Student BMJ 8: 163-164.
Cantillon, P., Williams, C. & Cochrane, M. (2000) PRHO rotations in primary care: what is happening out there? Hospital Medicine 61: 564 567.
Williams, C. (2000) Alert assistants in managing chronic illness: the case of mothers and teenage sons. Sociology of Health & Illness 22: 254-272.
Williams, C. (2000) Doing health, doing gender: teenagers, diabetes and asthma. Social Science & Medicine 50: 387-396.
Williams, C. (1999) Gender, adolescence and the management of diabetes. Journal of Advanced Nursing 30: 1160-1166.
CONTACT DETAILS
Professor Clare Williams
Director Centre for Biomedicine & Society - CBAS
Professor of Social Science of Biomedicine
School of Social Science & Public Policy
King's College London
Strand Building (6th floor)
Strand
London, WC2R 2LS
Tel: 07850 093522
Email: clare.2.williams@kcl.ac.uk
clare.m.williams@blueyonder.co.uk
Director London & Brighton Translational Ethics Centre - LABTEC (Wellcome Trust)
Professor of Social Science of Biomedicine
School of Social Science & Public Policy
Having worked as a nurse and health visitor for 20 years, I completed my PhD in 1998, with the support of a Department of Health Research Training Fellowship. I joined King's College London in 2001 to I undertake my post doctoral fellowship, funded by the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme. In 2003 I was promoted to Senior Research Fellow, became a Reader in 2005 and a Professor in 2006. Together with Professor Steven Wainwright, in 2007 I developed the new Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS) and an associated MSc in Medicine, Science & Society within the School of Social Science & Public Policy at King’s.
RESEARCH
My research focuses on the clinical, ethical and social implications of innovative health technologies, particularly from the perspective of health care practitioners and scientists; and on the influences of gender on health.
Current research grants:
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Strategic Award
LABTEC - The London & Brighton Translational Ethics Centre
The ethics of translational research: from ‘unnatural entities’ to experimental treatments
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme
Ethical frameworks for embryo donation;
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Developing Countries PhD Studentship
Ethics, policy and regulation of human embryonic stem cell research in Iran;
ESRC Stem Cell Initiative
Spaces of stem cell science: exploring processes of translational research;
ESRC Stem Cell Initiative Visiting Fellowships:
a) Global dynamics of translational stem cell research: UK & US perspectives;
b) Making models of man? UK and Italian perspectives on chimeras and stem cell research.
ESRC-SSRC Fellowship
The challenges of translational research in genetics: A US-UK collaboration.
Projects completed in 2007:
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme project
Facilitating choice, framing choice: experiences of staff working in pre-implantation genetic diagnosis;
ESRC Stem Cell Initiative project
Mapping stem cell innovation in action: the interface between the bench and the bedside.
(graded 'outstanding' by the ESRC)
Projects completed since 2001
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme project
Ethical and clinical dilemmas of the changing status of the fetus for practitioners and policy makers;
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme project
Clinical and ethical dilemmas of genetic and reproductive developments for health practitioners;
ESRC/MRC Innovative Health Technologies Programme
Social implications of innovative first trimester antenatal screening.
TEACHING
I am responsible for the Dissertation module for our MSc in Medicine, Science and Society. My recent teaching has been in the areas of clinical and ethical dilemmas of antenatal screening and stem cell research, and qualitative methodologies. Two recently completed doctoral studies examined how paternal rights and responsibilities are generated (Wellcome Trust funded); and family management of illness in children.
My current PhD / Post-Doctoral researchers:
Edison Bicudo (Capes PhD), Drug trials in developing countries;
Teodor Mladenov (King's Graduate School PhD), Being disabled: encounters between Heideggerian thought and disabilty studies;
Dr Andrew Papanikitas (PhD) Making hard moral choices: How do UK general practitioners identify and reconcile ethical conflict?
James Porter (Wellcome Trust Post-Doc), Creating ‘chimeras’? Scientists’ views on inter-species embryos;
Mansooreh Saniei (Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Developing Countries PhD Studentship), Ethics, policy and regulation of human embryonic stem cell research in Iran.
KEY PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2000-2004 elected committee member of the British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group, with joint responsibility for organising the annual conference;
2002 - Editorial Board, and now one of the Editors of Sociology of Health & Illness;
2003-2008 King's College Research Ethics Committee;
2005 - Editorial Commitee (now Editorial Board) of the new Royal Society of Medicine journal, Clinical Ethics;
2005-2008 External Examiner for the MSc in Genetic Counselling, University of Cardiff;
2006-2009 UK member of European Science Foundation European Co-operation in the field of Scientific & Technological (ESF COST) Research Committee which awards EU Framework Programme academic networking grants;
2007-2010 External Examiner for the MSc Medical Sociology, Royal Holloway, University of London;
2007 - Panel Member of the Department of Health National Institute for Health Research Personal Awards Scheme for Career Scientists and Postdoctoral Fellowships.
2009-2012 - Honorary Professor, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia.
I review Wellcome Trust, Nuffield Foundation and ESRC grant proposals, and evaluate ESRC end of project reports and Professorial Fellowships.
PUBLICATIONS
Williams, C. & Wainwright, S.P. (2010) Sociological reflections on ethics, embryonic stem cells and translational research. In Capps, B.J. & Campbell, A.V. (Eds) Bioethics and the Global Politics of Stem Cell Science: Medical Applications in a Pluralistic World, London: Imperial College Press, and Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.
Ehrich, K. & Williams, C. (2010) A ‘Healthy Baby’: The double imperative of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Health (in press).
Ehrich, K., Williams, C. & Farsides, B. (2010) Consenting Futures: Professional views on social, clinical and ethical aspects of information feedback to embryo donors in human embryonic stem cell research. Clinical Ethics (in press).
Wainwright, S.P. Michael, M. & Williams, C. (2009) Shifting paradigms? Reflections on regenerative medicine, embryonic stem cells and pharmaceuticals. In Williams, S.J. Gabe, J. & Davis, P. (Eds) Pharmaceuticals & Society: Critical Discourses & Debates, Sociology of Health & Illness Monograph, Oxford: Blackwell.
Seale, C. Gabe, J. Wainwright, S.P. & Williams, C. (2009) Editorial: Sociology of Health & Illness - New Developments. Sociology of Health & Illness, 31: 941-946.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M. &.Cribb, A. (2009) Stem cells, translational research and the sociology of science. In Atkinson, P. Glasner, P. & Lock, M. (Eds) Handbook of Genetics & Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era. London: Routledge.
Wainwright, S.P. Michael, M. & Williams, C. (2008) Shifting paradigms? Reflections on regenerative medicine, embryonic stem cells and pharmaceuticals. Specal Issue on 'Pharmaceuticals & Society: Critical Discourses & Debates', Sociology of Health & Illness 30 959-974.
Ehrich, K. Williams, C. & Farsides, B. (2008) The embryo as moral work object: PGD/IVF staff views and experiences. Sociology of Health & Illness 30 772-787.
Cribb, A. Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M & Farsides, B. (2008) Towards the applied: the construction of ethical positions in stem cell translational research. Medicine, Health Care & Philosophy 11 351-361.
Wainwright, S.P. & Williams, C. (2008) Spaces of speech and places of performance: an outline of a geography of science approach to embryonic stem cell research and diabetes. Special Issue, ‘Stem Cell Spaces, Places and Flows’ New Genetics & Society 27 161-173.
Seale, C. Gabe, J. Wainwright, S.P. & Williams, C. (2008) Editorial - Sociology of Health and Illness: a moment to reflect. Sociology of Health & Illness 30 655-658.
Williams, C. Wainwright, S.P. Ehrich, K. & Michael, M. (2008) Human embryos as boundary objects? Some reflections on the biomedical worlds of embryonic stem cells and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. New Genetics & Society 27 7-18.
Ives, J. Draper, H. Pattison, H. & Williams, C. (2008) Becoming a father / refusing fatherhood: an empirical bioethics approach to paternal responsibility. Clinical Ethics 3 75-84.
El-Toukhy, T. Williams, C. & Braude, P. (2008) The ethics of PGD. The Obstetrician & Gynacologist 10 49-54.
Lewando Hunt, G. Sandall, J. Spencer, K. Heyman, B. Wiiliams, C. Grellier, R. Pitson, L. & Tsouroufil, M. (2008) Experiences of first trimester antenatal screening in a one-stop clinic. British Journal of Midwifery, 16(3) 156-159.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Farsides, C. Michael, M. & Cribb, A. (2007) Ethical boundary-work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory. In de Vries, R. et al (Ed) The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences SHI Monograph, Oxford: Blackwell.
Ehrich, K. Williams, C. Farsides, B., Sandall, J., Scott, R. (2007) Choosing embryos: ethical complexity in staff accounts of PGD. Sociology of Health & Illness 29 1091-1106.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M. Farsides, B. & Cribb, A. (2007) Remaking the body? Scientists' genetic discourses and practices as examples of changing expectations on embryonic stem cell therapy for diabetes. New Genetics & Society 26 251-268.
Ehrich, K. Farsides, B. Williams, C. & Scott, R. (2007) Testing the embryo, testing the fetus. Clinical Ethics 4 181-186.
Michael, M. Wainwright, S.P. & Williams, C. (2007) Temporality and prudence: on stem cells as ‘phronesic things’. Special Issue on 'Time-Politics of Technology' Configurations 13 373-394.
Williams, C. Ehrich, K. Farsides, B. & Scott, R. (2007) Facilitating choice, framing choice: staff views on widening the scope of PGD in the UK. Social Science & Medicine 65 1094-1105.
Scott, R. Williams, C. Ehrich, K. & Farsides, B. (2007) The appropriate extent of PGD: health professionals’ views on the requirement for a ‘significant risk of a serious genetic condition’. Medical Law Review 15(3) 320-356.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M. Farsides, C. & Cribb, A. (2007) Ethical boundary-work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory. In de Vries, R. et al (Ed) The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences. Sociology of Health & Illness Monograph, Oxford: Blackwell.
Michael, M. Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Farsides, B. & Cribb, A. (2007) From core set to assemblage: on the dynamics of exclusion and inclusion in the failure to derive beta cells from embryonic stem cells. Science Studies 20(1) 5-25.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. & Turner, B. (2007) Globalisation, habitus and the balletic body. Cultural Studies -Critical Methodologies 7 308-325.
Wainwright, S., Williams, C. & Turner, B. (2006) Varieties of habitus and the embodiment of ballet. Qualitative Research 6: 535-558.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Persaud, S. & Jones, P. (2006) Real science, biological bodies and stem cells: constructing images of beta cells in the biomedical science lab. Social Theory & Health 4: 275-298.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M. Farsides, B. & Cribb, A. (2006) From bench to bedside? Biomedical scientists’ expectations of stem cell science as a future therapy for diabetes. Social Science & Medicine 63 2052-2064.
Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Michael, M. Farsides, C. & Cribb, A. (2006) Ethical boundary-work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory. Special Issue, de Vries, R. et al (Ed) 'The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences'. Sociology of Health & Illness 28: 732-748.
Williams, C. (2006) User involvement in empirical ethics research. Clinical Ethics 1: 94.
Ehrich, K., Williams, C. Scott, R., Sandall, J., & Farsides, B. (2006) Social welfare, genetic welfare? Boundary work in the IVF/PGD clinic. Social Science & Medicine 63: 1213-1224
Williams, C. (2006). The value of social science approaches to clinical ethics research. Clinical Ethics 1: 37-38.
Williams, C. (2006) Dilemmas in fetal medicine: premature application of technology or responding to womens choice? Sociology of Health & Illness 28: 1-20.
Heyman B., Lewando Hundt G., Sandall J., Spencer K., Williams C. et al (2006) On being at higher risk: prenatal screening for chromosomal anomalies. Social Science & Medicine 62: 2360-2372.
Kitzinger, J., & Williams, C. (2006) Forecasting science futures: legitimising hope and calming fears in the embryo stem cell debate. In Deane-Drummond, C. & Scott, P.M. (Eds) Future Perfect? God, Medicine & Human Identity, Edinburgh: A&T Clark.
Kitzinger, J. Williams, C. & Henderson, L. (2006) Science, media and society: the framing of bioethical debates around embryonic stem cell research between 2000 and 2005. In Glasner, P. Atkinson, P. & Greenslade, H. (Eds) New Genetics, New Social Formations London: Routledge.
Williams, C., Sandall, J., Lewando-Hundt, G. et al. (2005) Women as moral pioneers? Experiences of first trimester antenatal screening. Social Science & Medicine 61: 1983-92.
Williams, C. (2005) Framing the fetus in medical work: representations and practices. Social Science & Medicine 60: 2085-2095.
Kitzinger, J. & Williams, C. (2005) Forecasting science futures: legitimising hope and calming fears in the embryo stem cell debate. Social Science & Medicine 61: 731-40.
Wainwright, S., & Williams, C. (2005) Culture and ageing: reflections on the Arts & Nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing 52: 518-525.
Wainwright, S. & Williams, C. (2005) The embodiment of vulnerability: a case study of the life of Leoš Janáček, and his opera The Makropulos Case. Body & Society 11: 27-41.
Wainwright, S., Williams, C. & Turner, B. (2005) Fractured identities: narratives of injury and the balletic body. Health 9: 49-66.
Williams, C. Alderson, P. & Farsides, B. (2005) Interdisciplinary Research: culture clash or the best of both worlds? Reflections on Research: The Realities of Doing Research in the Social Sciences. In (Eds) Lawton, J. Gregory, S. & Hallowell, N. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Farsides, B., Williams, C. & Alderson, P. (2004) Aiming towards ‘moral’ equilibrium’: health care professionals’ views on working within the morally contested field of antenatal screening. Journal of Medical Ethics 30: 505-509.
Alderson, P., Williams, C., & Farsides, B. (2004) Practitioners’ views about equity within prenatal services. Sociology 38: 61-80.
Wainwright, S., & Williams, C. (2004) Giselle, madness and death. Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 30: 79-81.
Wainwright, S. & Williams, C. (2004) Biography and vulnerability: loss, dying and death in the Romantic paintings of JMW Turner. Auto/Biography 12: 251-268.
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2003) What constitutes balanced information in practitioners portrayals of Downs syndrome? MIDIRS Midwifery Digest 13:54-60.
Williams, C. Kitzinger, J., & Henderson, L. (2003) Envisaging the embryo in stem cell research: discursive strategies and media reporting of the ethical debates. Sociology of Health & Illness 25: 793-814.
Williams, C. (2003) The personalisation of the fetus or, He looks just like his father! MIDIRS Midwifery Digest 13: 47-49.
Williams, C. (2002) Mothers, Young People and Chronic Illness. Aldershot: Ashgate Press. (shortlisted for Sociology of Health and Illness 2004 Book Prize; nominated for 2004 Basker Anthropology Book Prize).
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2002) Too many choices? Hospital and community staff reflect on the future of prenatal screening. Social Science & Medicine 55: 743-753.
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2002) Is nondirectiveness possible within the context of antenatal screening and testing? Social Science & Medicine 54: 17-25.
Williams, C. Alderson, P.,& Farsides, B. (2002) ‘Drawing the line’ in prenatal screening and testing: health practitioners’ discussions. Health, Risk & Society 4: 61-75.
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2002) Dilemmas encountered by health practitioners offering nuchal translucency screening: a qualitative case study. Prenatal Diagnosis 22: 216-220.
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2002) What constitutes balanced information in practitioners portrayals of Downs syndrome? Midwifery 18: 230-37.
Alderson, P., Williams, C. & Farsides, B. (2002) Examining ethics in practice: health service professionals’ evaluations of in-hospital ethics seminars. Journal of Nursing Ethics 9: 518-531.
Williams, C. Alderson, P., & Farsides, B. (2001) Conflicting perceptions of the fetus: person, patient, ‘nobody’, commodity? New Genetics & Society 20:225-238.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2001) The clinical and educational experiences of pre-registration house officers in general practice. Medical Education 35: 774-781.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2001) The doctor-patient relationship: from undergraduate assumptions to pre-registration reality. Medical Education 35: 743-747.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2001) PRHO rotations incorporating general practice: does the order of rotation matter? Medical Education 35: 572-577.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2001) Pre-registration house officers in general practice: the views of GP trainers. Family Practice 18: 619-21.
Williams, C. & Cantillon, P. (2000) A surgical career? The views of junior women doctors. Medical Education 34: 602-607.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2000) Pre-registration rotations into general practice: the concerns of PRHOs and the views of hospital consultants. Medical Education 34: 716-720.
Williams, C. Cantillon, P., & Cochrane, M. (2000) PRHO rotations incorporating general practice. Student BMJ 8: 163-164.
Cantillon, P., Williams, C. & Cochrane, M. (2000) PRHO rotations in primary care: what is happening out there? Hospital Medicine 61: 564 567.
Williams, C. (2000) Alert assistants in managing chronic illness: the case of mothers and teenage sons. Sociology of Health & Illness 22: 254-272.
Williams, C. (2000) Doing health, doing gender: teenagers, diabetes and asthma. Social Science & Medicine 50: 387-396.
Williams, C. (1999) Gender, adolescence and the management of diabetes. Journal of Advanced Nursing 30: 1160-1166.
CONTACT DETAILS
Professor Clare Williams
Director Centre for Biomedicine & Society - CBAS
Professor of Social Science of Biomedicine
School of Social Science & Public Policy
King's College London
Strand Building (6th floor)
Strand
London, WC2R 2LS
Tel: 07850 093522
Email: clare.2.williams@kcl.ac.uk
clare.m.williams@blueyonder.co.uk