- Kieran Healy
Kieran Healy is an Irish sociologist at
Duke University and a regular visitor to theResearch School in Social Science (RSSS ) at theAustralian National University . He earned his PhD in sociology fromPrinceton University having begun his studies atUniversity College Cork , inIreland . He is married toL.A. Paul , a philosopher at theUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill . His research interests include the social basis of self-interest and altruism, and the organization of exchange in human goods (like blood, organs, eggs and genetic material) and the role of volunteering in the open source software movement. In 2002, he was awarded theAmerican Sociological Association 's Dissertation Award for "Exchange in Blood and Organs."Kieran was a successful college
debater while at UCC, winning the Irish Times National Debating competition [http://www.uccphilosoph.com/wiki/index.php/Irish_Times_Debating_Competition] having previously beenMunster [http://www.uccphilosoph.com/wiki/index.php/Munster_Schools%27_Debating_Competition] and All Ireland Schools' Debating Champion [http://www.uccphilosoph.com/wiki/index.php/All-Ireland_Schools%27_Debating_Competition] . He was a loyal member of theUCC Philosophical Society ("the Philosoph").Healy is a member of the
Crooked Timber and orgtheory.net group blogs.elected bibliography
* Altruism as an organizational problem: The case of organ procurement "American Sociological Review ", 69:387-404, 2004, [http://www.kieranhealy.org/files/papers/asr2004.pdf PDF]
* Digital technology and cultural goods "Journal of Political Philosophy", 10(4):478-500, 2002, [http://www.kieranhealy.org/files/papers/jpp.pdf PDF]
* Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2006) [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/185117.ctl Description] .External links
* [http://www.soc.duke.edu/~kjhealy/ Kieran Healy's website at Duke]
* [http://www.uccphilosoph.com/wiki/index.php/Kieran_Healy Entry on UCC Philosoph's wiki project]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/books/review/Postrel.t.html?ex=157680000&en=f390b3396e0ec28a&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink New York Times book review of Last Best Gifts]
* [http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/ OrgTheory group blog]
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