Carol Heimer

Carol Anne Heimer (born 1951) is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. She is known for her research on the sociology of risk and responsibility, and on regulation and ethics.

She received her B.A. from Reed College and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

She is married to prominent sociologist Arthur Stinchcombe.

Her book with Lisa Staffen on infant care, won the American Sociological Association Theory Section Prize, as well as the ASA Medical Sociology Section's Eliot Friedson Award. It examined the organization of neonatal intensive care units in United States hospitals. Heimer's current research examines the delivery of AIDS drugs in clinics in South Africa, Uganda, Thailand and the United States.