Nelson, Hyeyoung Oh and Karen Lutfey Spencer. 2021. “Sociological Contributions to Race and Health: Diversifying the Ontological and Methodological Agenda” Sociology of Health and Illness, epub online 8/26/2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13362
Spencer, Karen Lutfey, Emily Hammad Mrig, and Elizabeth Gage Bouchard. 2021. “Unpacking Gatekeeping in Medical Institutions: A Case Study of Access to End-of-Life Patients.” Qualitative Research, epub online 8/5/2021 https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211034975
Spencer, Karen Lutfey, Emily Hammad Mrig, and Ariana Kobra Talaie. 2020. “Does Palliative Care Utilization Facilitate Conversion to Hospice Care? A Qualitative Study of the ‘Soft No.’” American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.1-6.
Spencer, Karen Lutfey. 2018. “Transforming Patient Compliance Research in an Era of Biomedicalization.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 59(2): 170-84.
Mrig, Emily Hammad and Karen Lutfey Spencer. 2018. “Political Economy of Hope as a Cultural Facet of Biomedicalization: A Qualitative Examination of Constraints to Hospice Utilization Among U.S. End-Stage Cancer Patients.” Social Science & Medicine 200: 107-113.
Spencer, Karen Lutfey, Emily Hammad Mrig, Elizabeth Kessler and Daniel Matlock. 2017. “A Qualitative Investigation of Cross-Domain Influences on Medical Decision Making and the Importance of Social Context for Understanding Barriers to Hospice Use.” Journal of Applied Social Science 11(1):48-59.
Spencer, Karen Lutfey and Matthew Grace. 2016. "Social Foundations of Healthcare Inequality and Treatment Bias." Annual Review of Sociology 42: 101-120.