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Owen Whooley is a Professor, Graduate Director, and Regents Lecturer in Sociology at the University of New Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University (2010) and specializes in medical sociology, examining how medical knowledge is produced, contested, and legitimized. His influential books include On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing (2020) and Knowledge in the Time of Cholera (2013), both awarded the ASA's Merton Book Award.
Research explores:
- Historical development of psychiatric knowledge and diagnostic systems
- Epistemological struggles in medicine during health crises
- Social construction of ignorance in scientific practice
Recent publications analyze temporal dimensions of mental illness, diagnostic controversies surrounding long COVID, and societal management of medical uncertainty. His scholarly contributions have been recognized with multiple national awards from the American Sociological Association.
Teaching includes courses on Sociological Theory, Sociology of Madness, and Pandemics. His work critically examines tensions between professional authority and democratic values in healthcare.
