Eliza Brown
I am a sociologist who specializes in reproduction. I am particularly interested in temporality and anticipation, the role of money in medical interactions, and how medical providers and patients communicate about chance and risk. I use qualitative methods, including ethnography, depth interviews, and discourse analysis. My work has been published in American Sociological Review, Journal of Health & Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, Socio-Economic Review, and Sociological Forum. I am writing a book based on my dissertation research on how fertility providers and patients negotiate the chance of twins as a byproduct of fertility treatments (under contract with University of Chicago Press). I received my PhD in sociology from New York University in 2021.
| 2026 | Brown, Eliza. "Conceptive Risk-Taking: Personal Uncertainty, Flexible Fertility Intentions, and Twins from Medically Assisted Reproduction." Social Science & Medicine 118743. |
| 2025 | Altomonte, Guillermina, and Eliza Brown. "Morals, Markets, and Medicine." Sociological Forum. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.70037 |
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Brown, Eliza. "Doctor, How Much Does it Cost?: Moral Values and Price Talk in a Stratified Consumer Medical Market." Socio-Economic Review 23(4): 1637–1659. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf025
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| 2023 | Brown, Eliza. "Switching Clinics: Patient Autonomy over the Course of their Careers in Consumer Medicine." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 64(2): 228–242. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465231154956 |
| 2022 |
Brown, Eliza. "Less like Magic, More like a Chore: How Sex Becomes a Third Shift for Women in Heterosexual Couples Trying to Become Pregnant." Sociological Forum 37(2): 465–485. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12803
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| 2020 | Brown, Eliza. "Projected Diagnosis, Anticipatory Medicine, and Uncertainty: How Medical Providers 'Rule Out' Potential Pregnancy in Contraceptive Counseling." Social Science & Medicine 258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113118 |
| 2018 |
Brown, Eliza, and Mary Patrick. "Time, Anticipation, and the Life Course: Egg Freezing as Temporarily Disentangling Romance and Reproduction." American Sociological Review 83(5): 959–982. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122418796807
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