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Department of Anthropology University of Washington Box 353100 Seattle, WA 98195-3100 |
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I joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington in 1999, after earning my Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. I hold an adjunct appointment at UW in the Department of Women Studies and am affiliated with the Institute for Public Health Genetics, and the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. I am also a founding co-director of the Critical Medical Humanities project, a crossdisciplinary research cluster sponsored by the Simpson Humanities Center. I teach courses in social theory and medical anthropology. My research and teaching in general have centered on issues at the intersection of sociocultural anthropology with medical anthropology, feminist anthropology, science studies, and cultural studies. As a medical anthropologist, I bring the methods and concepts of sociocultural anthropology to bear upon the study of health, illness, and medicine. In my own research I use ethnographic methods to understand medical practice and education in its broader contexts. Specifically, my research and writing has focused on cultural and political dimensions of ultrasound technology and imaging, the role and experience of “surrogate” decisionmakers in medical decision-making at the end of life, and how “culture” is understood and taught within medical education. I am currently developing a new research project focusing on the role and the work of standardized patients in medical education. |
