Publications

Books
Jenkins, Tania M. 2020. Doctors’ Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession. New York: Columbia University Press.
Peer-reviewed articles (asterisk beside name denotes student coauthors)
Jenkins, Tania M. In press. “Making the Cut: Status, Credentials, and Hiring in Medicine.” Social Problems. 10.1093/socpro/spab046.
Jenkins, Tania M.º, Kelly Undermanº, Alexandra H. Vinson, Lauren D. Olsen, and Laura Hirshfield. 2021. “The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology: A Return to our Roots and an Agenda for the Future.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 62(3):255-70. ºdenotes equal first authorship
Jenkins, Tania M., Grace Franklyn*, Joshua Klugman, and Shalini Reddy. 2020. “Separate but Equal? The Sorting of USMDs and non-USMDs in Internal Medicine Residency Programs.” Journal of General Internal Medicine. 35: 1458–1464. doi:10.1007/s11606-019-05573-8.
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Featured in a Q&A in the American College of Physicians’ (ACP) Hospitalist Magazine
Fischer, Jonathan*, Kimberly Clinite, Eric Sullivan*, Tania M. Jenkins,…Shalini Reddy. 2019. “Specialty and Lifestyle Preference Changes during Medical School.” Medical Science Educator. 29: 995–1001. doi:10.1007/s40670-019-00790-6.
Jenkins, Tania M., Jenny Kim*, Chelsea Hu*, John Hickernell*, Sarah Watanaskul*, John Yoon. 2018. “Stressing the Journey: Using Life Stories to Study Medical Student Wellbeing”Advances in Health Sciences Education. 23(4): 767–782. doi:10.1007/s10459-018-9827-0
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Featured in the IAMSE Spring 2018 Webcast Audio Seminar Series, Episode 4
Jenkins, Tania M. 2018. “Dual Autonomies, Divergent Approaches: How Stratification in Medical Education Shapes Approaches to Patient Care.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 59(2): 268–282.
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Featured in a JHSB podcast in the June 2018 issue
Mueller, Anna S., Tania M. Jenkins, Melissa Osborne*, Arjun Dayal*, Daniel O’Connor*, and Vineet Arora. 2017. “Gender Differences in Attending Physicians' Feedback for Residents in an Emergency Medical Residency Program: A Qualitative Analysis.” Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 9(5): 577-585 doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-17-00126.1
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Selected as one of the "Top Articles in Medical Education 2017” by the Academic Pediatric Association
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Featured in a KeyLIME Podcast (Key Literature in Medical Education) by The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (episode 174)
Jenkins, Tania M. and Susan E. Short. 2017. "Negotiating intersex: A case for revising the theory of social diagnosis." Social Science & Medicine. 175: 91-98. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.12.047
Jenkins, Tania M. and Shalini T. Reddy. 2016. "Revisiting the Rationing of Medical Degrees in the United States." Contexts, 15(4), 36-41. doi:10.1177/1536504216684820.
Jenkins, Tania M. 2015. “’It’s Time She Stopped Torturing Herself:’ Structural Constraints to Decision-Making about Life-Sustaining Treatment by Medical Trainees.” Social Science & Medicine, 132: 132-140.
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Winner, Louise Johnson Memorial Scholar award, Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2015
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Winner, Robin Badgley Paper Award, Canadian Society of Sociology of Health, 2014
Jenkins, Tania M. 2014. “Clothing norms as markers of status in a hospital setting: A Bourdieusian analysis.” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 18(5): 526–541.
Short, Susan E., Yang Yang, and Tania M. Jenkins. 2013. “Sex, Gender, Genetics, and Health.” American Journal of Public Health, 103 Suppl 1: S93-S101, PMC3786754.
Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie, Emilie Renahy, Tania Jenkins, and Helen Cerigo. 2012. “Assessing barriers to health insurance and threats to equity in comparative perspective: The Health Insurance Access Database.” BMC Health Services Research, 12. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-107, PMC3393626.
Brown, Phil, Mercedes Lyson, and Tania Jenkins. 2011. “From Diagnosis to Social Diagnosis.” Social Science & Medicine, 73(6): 939-943 .
Jenkins, Tania M. 2008. “Patients, Practitioners and Paradoxes: Responses to the Cuban Health Crisis of the 1990s.” Qualitative Health Research, (18)10: 1384-1400.
Book chapters
Jenkins, Tania M. 2014. “Who’s the Boss? Diagnosis and Medical Authority.” Pp. 105-119 in Jutel, Annemarie and Kevin Dew (eds.), Social Issues in Diagnosis: An Introduction for Students and Clinicians. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie, Jean-Simon Farrah, and Tania M. Jenkins. 2011. “Population aging, health systems and equity: Shared challenges for the U.S. and Canada.” Pp. 563-581 in R. A. Settersten & J. L. Angel (Eds.), The Handbook of Sociology of Aging. New York: Springer.
Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie and Tania M. Jenkins. 2010. “Social Policies and Health Inequalities.” Pp. 455-484 in Cockerham, William C. (Ed), The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie and Tania Jenkins. 2008. “Vieillissement et utilisation des soins: comment départager les coûts?” Pp. 69-77 in Béland, F., A.P. Contandriopoulos, A. Quesnel-Vallée, L. Robert (Eds), Le privé dans la santé: un débat sans fin? Presses de l’Université de Montréal: Montréal.
Other publications
Jenkins, Tania M. 2021. Review of "More than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State" by LaTonya J. Trotter (2020). American Journal of Sociology 126(6):1521-23, https://doi.org/10.1086/714029
Jenkins, Tania M. 2020. "Making Step 1 Pass/Fail: A Step in the Right Direction?" Blog post.
Jenkins, Tania M. 2019. "Review of Values at the End of Life: The Logic of Palliative Care" by Roi Livne (2019). Social Forces. soz139, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz139
Jenkins, Tania M. and Shalini T. Reddy. 2017. "Unmatched U.S. Seniors and Residency Placement Fever." Academic Medicine, 92(11): 1510.