Professor Goldner's research areas include health care issues and social movements.  Her current focus is on the complementary and alternative medicine movement and the development of integrative medicine that incorporates both Western and alternative medicines.  Other projects include studying how people search for health-related information on the Internet, and how stressful informal caregiving is for family members.  She has had articles published in the journals Research in the Sociology of Health Care and Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change.  She also serves as Assistant Book Review Editor for Complementary Health Practice Review, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal.  She teaches courses on medical sociology, public health care policy, health care systems and gender.

E-Mail: goldnerm@union.edu

Website:  http://www.union.edu/Socioweb/goldner.htm