Alberto Cambrosio is a sociologist of biomedicine at

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

. He earned his PhD in History and Sociology of Science from the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-de ...

. He holds a bachelor's degree in Biology from the

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, Switzerland, and a master's degree in Environmental Science from the

Université de Sherbrooke The University of Sherbrooke ( French: Université de Sherbrooke) (UdS) is a large public French-language university in Quebec, Canada with campuses located in Sherbrooke and Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal approximately west of Sherbrooke. It ...

, Canada. He is widely published, and has written three books. In 2005, he received the

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from the

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for his book ''Biomedical Platforms'' with historian Peter Keating. He is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Since 2011 he has been a guest professor at the Center for the Sociology of Organizations in Paris, France.

References

* Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating. ''Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Style of Practice'', The University of Chicago Press, 2012 * Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating. ''Biomedical Platforms. Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine'', MIT Press, 2003 (paperback edition: 2006) * Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating. ''Exquisite Specificity. The Monoclonal Antibody Revolution'', Oxford University Press, 1995

External links

Faculty page

CSO Interview

Alberto Cambrosio is a new guest professor at the CSO (2011) * http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/fleck/ List of Ludwik Fleck Prize winners Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian educators Living people Canadian sociologists Medical sociologists Université de Montréal alumni University of Basel alumni Université de Sherbrooke alumni {{Canada-sociologist-stub