He spent 15 years as Professor of Sociology and Director of the Science Studies program at the University of California, San Diego.
[1] He is widely published, and has written three books, Learning By Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America's Communities, with David L. Kirp, Marlene Strong Franks, Jonathan Simon, Doug Conaway, and John Lewis (1989), Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (1996), and Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (2007).
Impure Science has been reviewed by the New York Times,[3] The Washington Post,[4] and others.
In 2009, Inclusion won the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award of the American Sociological Association.
Impure Science discusses how AIDS patients in the 1980s were able to transform their status from being a disease constituency to being experts in experience.