Alan Petersen

Research output

Research output per year 1983 2002 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2013 2021 2024 2025

• 83 Article
• 25 Chapter (Book)
• 11 Book
• 6 Edited Book
• 20 More
  • 5 Commissioned Report
  • 5 Letter
  • 4 Review Article
  • 2 Conference Paper
  • 2 Editorial
  • 1 Other Report
  • 1 Encyclopaedia / Dictionary Entry

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Making visible the expertise of data workers in AI-Driven Healthcare: A call to action

  Petersen, A., 25 Mar 2025, In: Medicine Anthropology Theory. 12, 1, 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
• 2024

  Competing realities, uncertain diagnoses of infectious disease: Mass self-testing for COVID-19 and liminal bio-citizenship

  Petersen, A. & Pienaar, K., Mar 2024, In: Sociology of Health and Illness. 46, S1, p. 242-260 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Empathetic knowledge: conceptualising modes of knowing within families marked by illness

  Lue Kessing, M. & Petersen, A., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Health Sociology Review. 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

• Navigating artificial intelligence in care homes: competing stakeholder views of trust and logics of care

  Neves, B., Omori, M., Petersen, A., Vered, M. & Carter, A., Oct 2024, In: Social Science & Medicine. 358, 9 p., 117187.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• The relatives of people with depression: A systematic review and methodological critique of qualitative studies

  Buus, N., Petersen, A., McPherson, S., Meadows, G., Brand, G. & Ong, B., Sept 2024, In: Family Process. 63, 3, p. 1469–1483 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• The Right to Rehabilitation for People With Dementia: A Codesign Approach to Barriers and Solutions

  Layton, N., Devanny, C., Hill, K., Swaffer, K., Russell, G., Low, L. F., Lee, D. C. A., Cations, M., Skouteris, H., MC O'Connor, C., Collyer, T. A., Neves, B. B., Andrew, N. E., Haines, T., Srikanth, V. K., Petersen, A. & Callisaya, M. L., Oct 2024, In: Health Expectations. 27, 5, 11 p., e70036.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• The social stigma of loneliness: A sociological approach to understanding the experiences of older people

  Neves, B. & Petersen, A., 10 Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Sociological Review. 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2023

  Artificial intelligence in long-term care: Technological promise, aging anxieties, and sociotechnical ageism

  Neves, B. B., Petersen, A., Vered, M., Carter, A. & Omori, M., 2023, In: Journal of Applied Gerontology. 42, 6, p. 1274-1282 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  17 Citations (Scopus)
• 2022

  Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing

  Pienaar, K. & Petersen, A., Jan 2022, In: Sociology of Health and Illness. 44, 1, p. 25-40 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  11 Citations (Scopus)

• The knowing mother: Maternal knowledge and the reinforcement of the feminine consuming subject in magazine advertisements

  Davis, T., Hogg, M. K., Marshall, D., Petersen, A. & Schneider, T., 2022, In: Journal of Consumer Culture. 22, 1, p. 40-60 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• ‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information

  Petersen, A., Schermuly, A. & Anderson, A., Aug 2022, In: Social Science & Medicine. 306, 8 p., 115115.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  7 Citations (Scopus)
• 2021

  From the margins to mainstream: how providers of autologous ‘stem cell treatments’ legitimise their practice in Australia

  MacGregor, C., Petersen, A. & Munsie, M., 1 Jan 2021, In: Health. 25, 1, p. 51-68 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• I’m not an activist! digital self-advocacy in online patient communities

  Schermuly, A. C., Petersen, A. & Anderson, A., 2021, In: Critical Public Health. 31, 2, p. 204-213 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  17 Citations (Scopus)

• Managing risks or generating uncertainties? Ambiguous ontologies of testing in Australian healthcare

  Pienaar, K., Petersen, A. & Bowman, D. M., Nov 2021, In: Health. 25, 6, p. 669-687 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Promoting a healthier, younger you: the media marketing of anti-ageing superfoods

  MacGregor, C. H., Petersen, A. R. & Parker, C. E., May 2021, In: Journal of Consumer Culture. 21, 2, p. 164-179 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  29 Citations (Scopus)

• Testing and diagnosis as social interventions: An interview with Annemarie Jutel

  Pienaar, K. & Petersen, A., 2021, In: Science, Technology and Society. 26, 1, p. 135-139 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other

• Testing for life? Regimes of governance in diagnosis and screening

  Petersen, A. & Pienaar, K., Mar 2021, In: Science, Technology and Society. 26, 1, p. 7-23 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• The Molecular Turn, Predictive Technologies and Diagnostic Fragmentation: An Interview with David Armstrong

  Petersen, A. & Pienaar, K., 2021, In: Science, Technology and Society. 26, 1, p. 140-145 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other
• 2020

  Feeling less alone online: patients’ ambivalent engagements with digital media

  Petersen, A., Schermuly, A. & Anderson, A., 2020, In: Sociology of Health and Illness. 42, 6, p. 1441-1455 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  16 Citations (Scopus)
• 2019

  Citizens’ use of digital media to connect with health care: Socio-ethical and regulatory implications

  Petersen, A., Tanner, C. & Munsie, M., Jul 2019, In: Health. 23, 4, p. 367-384 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  22 Citations (Scopus)

• Matters of fact and politics: Generating expectations of cancer screening

  Pienaar, K., Petersen, A. & Bowman, D., 2019, In: Social Science & Medicine. 232, p. 408-416 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

• Navigating the cartographies of trust: how patients and carers establish the credibility of online treatment claims

  Petersen, A., Tanner, C. & Munsie, M., 1 Oct 2019, In: Sociology of Health and Illness. 41, S1, p. 50-64 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  11 Citations (Scopus)

• Recovery within injury compensation schemes: a system mapping study

  Collie, A., Newnam, S., Keleher, H., Petersen, A., Kosny, A., Vogel, A. P. & Thompson, J., 15 Mar 2019, In: Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 29, 1, p. 52-63 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  18 Citations (Scopus)

• The shifting politics of patient activism: From bio-sociality to bio-digital citizenship

  Petersen, A. R., Schermuly, A. C. & Anderson, A., 2019, In: Health. 23, 4, p. 478-494 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  38 Citations (Scopus)
• 2018

  Capitalising on ageing anxieties: Promissory discourse and the creation of an ‘anti-ageing treatment’ market

  Petersen, A., 2018, In: Journal of Sociology. 54, 2, p. 191-202 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  22 Citations (Scopus)

• Hyping the market for ‘anti-ageing’ in the news: From medical failure to success in self-transformation

  MacGregor, C., Petersen, A. & Parker, C., Mar 2018, In: BioSocieties. 13, 1, p. 64-80 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  11 Citations (Scopus)

• Intersectional research stories of responsibilising the family for food, feeding and health in the twenty-first century

  Davis, T., Hogg, M. K., Marshall, D., Petersen, A. & Schneider, T., 2018, In: European Journal of Marketing. 52, 12, p. 2273-2288 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  7 Citations (Scopus)
• 2017

  'No one here's helping me, what do you do?': Addressing patient need for support and advice about stem cell treatments

  Tanner, C. E., Petersen, A. R. & Munsie, M., Oct 2017, In: Regenerative Medicine. 12, 7, p. 791-801 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  19 Citations (Scopus)
• 2016

  Exploring the influence of compensable injury on recovery

  Allen, A. R., Newnam, S., Petersen, A., Vogel, A. P. & Collie, A., 2016, In: Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation. 45, 3, p. 315-325 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

• Stem cell miracles or Russian roulette?: Patients' use of digital media to campaign for access to clinically unproven treatments

  Petersen, A., MacGregor, C. & Munsie, M., 2016, In: Health, Risk and Society. 17, 7-8, p. 592 - 604 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  24 Citations (Scopus)

• Stuck in the middle: The emotional labours of case managers in the personal injury compensation system

  Newnam, S., Petersen, A., Keleher, H., Collie, A., Vogel, A. & McClure, R., 17 Oct 2016, In: Work. 55, 2, p. 347-357 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Unlocking the energy of the amazon? The need for a food fraud policy approach to the regulation of anti-ageing health claims on superfood labelling

  Curll, J., Parker, C., MacGregor, C. & Petersen, A., 2016, In: Federal Law Review. 44, 3, p. 419-449 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
• 2015

  Assembling 'the bioeconomy': exploiting the power of the promissory life sciences

  Petersen, A. R. & Krisjansen, I. A., 2015, In: Journal of Sociology. 51, 1, p. 28 - 46 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  80 Citations (Scopus)

• Between hope and evidence: how community advisors demarcate the boundary between legitimate and illegitimate stem cell treatments

  Petersen, A., Tanner, C. & Munsie, M., 1 Mar 2015, In: Health. 19, 2, p. 188 - 206 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  32 Citations (Scopus)
• 2014

  A fortunate meeting: Working with Herbert on biobanks

  Petersen, A., 11 Nov 2014, In: BioSocieties. 9, 4, p. 477-480 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review

• Food, fat and family: thinking fathers through mothers' words

  Tanner, C. E., Petersen, A. R. & Fraser, S. M., 2014, In: Women's Studies International Forum. 44, May-June 2014, p. 209 - 219 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  25 Citations (Scopus)

• From overt provider to invisible presence: discursive shifts in advertising portrayals of the father in Good Housekeeping, 1950–2010

  Marshall, D., Davis, T., Hogg, M. K., Schneider, T. & Petersen, A., 3 Nov 2014, In: Journal of Marketing Management. 30, 15-16, p. 1654-1679 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  42 Citations (Scopus)

• Practicing food anxiety: making Australian mothers responsible for their families' dietary decisions

  Petersen, A., Tanner, C. & Fraser, S., 2014, In: Food and Foodways. 22, 3, p. 175 - 197 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  21 Citations (Scopus)

• Therapeutic journeys: the hopeful travails of stem cell tourists

  Petersen, A. R., Seear, K. L. & Munsie, M. J., 2014, In: Sociology of Health and Illness. 36, 5, p. 670 - 685 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  88 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  From bioethics to a sociology of bio-knowledge

  Petersen, A. R., 2013, In: Social Science & Medicine. 98, December, p. 264 - 270 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  53 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  Engaging whom and for what ends? Australian stakeholders' constructions of public engagement in relation to nanotechnologies

  Petersen, A. R. & Bowman, D., 2012, In: Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. 12, 2, p. 67 - 79 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  11 Citations (Scopus)
• 2011

  Technologies of hope: techniques of the online advertising of stem cell treatments

  Petersen, A. & Seear, K., 2011, In: New Genetics and Society. 30, 4, p. 329 - 346 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  53 Citations (Scopus)
• 2010

  Framing risk: nanotechnologies in the news

  Petersen, A., Anderson, A. & Allan, S., 2010, In: Journal of Risk Research. 13, 1, p. 29 - 44 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  50 Citations (Scopus)

• Healthy living and citizenship: An overview

  Petersen, A., Davis, M., Fraser, S. & Lindsay, J., 2010, In: Critical Public Health. 20, 4, p. 391 - 400 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  84 Citations (Scopus)

• Shaping the ethics of an emergent field: scientists' and policymakers' representations of nanotechnologies

  Petersen, A. & Anderson, A., 2010, In: International Journal of Technoethics. 1, 1, p. 32 - 44 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2009

  In Search of Immortality: The Political Economy of Anti-aging Medicine

  Petersen, A. R. & Seear, K. L., 2009, In: Medicine Studies. 1, 3, p. 1 - 13 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

• Opening the black box: scientists' views on the role of the news media in the nanotechnology debate

  Petersen, A. R., Anderson, A., Allan, S. & Wilkinson, C., 2009, In: Public Understanding of Science. 18, p. 512 - 530 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  47 Citations (Scopus)

• The ethics of expectations: biobanks and the promise of personalised medicine.

  Petersen, A. R., 2009, In: Monash Bioethics Review. 28, 1, p. 05.1 - 05.12 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  30 Citations (Scopus)
• 2008

  Older family-carers' views on the future accommodation needs of relatives who have an intellectual disability

  Gilbert, A., Lankshear, G. & Petersen, A. R., 2008, In: International Journal of Social Welfare. 17, 1, p. 54 - 64 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  40 Citations (Scopus)
• 2007

  A question of balance or blind faith?: Scientists' and science policymakers' representations of the benefits and risks of nanotechnologies

  Petersen, A. R. & Anderson, A., 2007, In: NanoEthics. 1, 3, p. 243 - 256 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  17 Citations (Scopus)