Overview
Taylor M. Cruz is a sociologist of science, technology, and medicine. She studies the societal dimensions of emerging technologies in health and biomedical contexts. She received her PhD in Sociology from UC San Francisco, where she remains a network affiliate with the Emancipatory Sciences Lab.
Research Interests
Digital health technologies, health equity, medical sociology, science and technology studies (STS), quantitative methods
Selected Publications
Taylor M. Cruz. 2024. “Racing the Machine: Data Analytic Technologies and Institutional Inscription of
Racialized Health Injustice.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 65(1): 110-125.
Taylor M. Cruz. 2022. “The Social Life of Biomedical Data: Capturing, Obscuring, and Envisioning Care
in the Digital Safety-Net.” Social Science & Medicine 294: 114670.
Taylor M. Cruz and Emily Allen Paine. 2021. “Capturing Patients, Missing Inequities: Data
Standardization on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity across Unequal Clinical Contexts.” Social Science & Medicine 285: 114295.
Taylor M. Cruz and Sheridan A. Smith*. 2021. “Health Equity Beyond Data: Health Care Worker Perceptions of Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data Collection in Electronic Health Records.”
Medical Care 59(5): 379-385.
