Peer Reviewed
David Schleifer and Michaela DeSoucey. Journal of Cultural Economy, 2015. “What Your Consumer Wants: Business-to-business advertising as a mechanism of market change.”
David Schleifer. Social Studies of Science, 2013. “Categories Count: Trans Fat Labeling as a Technique of Corporate Governance.”
David Schleifer. Technology and Culture, 2012 “The Perfect Solution: How Trans Fats Became the Healthy Replacement for Saturated Fats.”
David Schleifer. Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society, 2011. “We Spent a Million Bucks and Then We Had to Do Something: The Unexpected Implications of Industry Involvement in Trans Fats Research.”
Michaela DeSoucey and David Schleifer. Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 2010. “Technique and Technology in the Kitchen: Comparing Resistance to Municipal Trans Fat and Foie Gras Bans.”
David Schleifer. La Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencia, Tecnologia y Sociedad, 2004. “La Mirada Genética: El Secuenciamiento del Genoma del Arroz en China.”
Other Writing
David Schleifer and Alison Fairbrother. Issues in Science and Technology, published simultaneously in Creative Nonfiction, 2014. “What Fish Oil Pills Are Hiding: One Woman’s Quest to Save the Chesapeake Bay from the Dietary Supplement Industry.”
David Schleifer and Alison Fairbrother. Gizmodo, 2014. “The Fish at the Heart of the Food System.”
David Schleifer. Inform, 2014. “How Trans Fats Almost Got Saturated.”
David Schleifer. Risk and Regulation, 2013. “Ask Not What Product Labeling Can Do for You.”
David Schleifer and Bart Penders. Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society, 2011. “Food, Drugs and TV: The Social Study of Corporate Science.”
David Schleifer. Ars Medica, 2010. “How to be Allergic to Everything.”
David Schleifer. Post Road, 2010. “The Best Way to Get Good Taste.”
David Schleifer. Distillations, 2009. “Salt’s Fat Chance.”
David Schleifer. N+1, 2007. “Fear of Frying: A Brief History of Trans Fats.”
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