Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology
(The Joint UCB/UCSF Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology)

UCB Core Faculty

Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Professor and Program Director) Nancy Scheper-Hughes teaches and writes on the violence and madness of everyday life from an existentialist, feminist, and politically engaged perspective. Preceding and following research in rural Ireland on "schizophrenia" among bachelor farmers, and the de-institutionalization of mental 'patients' in Boston, Scheper-Hughes engaged in an intermittent, 25 year study of the madness of hunger and the "acceptable" death of angel-babies in rural Northeast Brazil. More recently, she has studied AIDS, the social body, and sexual citizenship in Cuba and Brazil, and she is currently studying the role of violence and terror in the democratic transition in South Africa and in the post apartheid healing processes of "truth" and "reconciliation."

Lawrence Cohen (Associate Professor and Program Co-Director) Lawrence Cohen was trained in religion and medicine before coming to medical anthropology and has primarily worked in India. His diverse work (on Alzeimer's, the family, and the anthropology of senility, on homosexuality, politics, and the commodity form, and on transplantation and the stakes in being human) is linked by a concern with the problem of knowledge and ethnographic form. He has also engaged the study of Ayurvedic medicine, of transgender, of AIDS in India, and of the neoliberal clinic.

Stefania Pandolfo (Associate Professor) Stefania Pandolfo's contribution to the program concentrates on the study of symbolic formations and what may be called an imaginary of the body. Her work is shaped by questions of subjectivity and alterity. She has written on memory and loss in the historical imagination of a Maghrebian community, and her current research focuses on emergent forms of subjectivity and selfhood at the interface of psychoanalysis and "traditional" medical practices and knowledges in the Maghreb.

Paul Rabinow (Professor) Paul Rabinow specializes in the "anthropology of reason." This means taking the production of truth as a social, cultural, and political practice. In recent years his work has concentrated on the emergence of the biotechnology industry and related changes in molecular biology and genetics. His ethnographic fieldwork in the U.S. and France has centered on emerging configurations on new truths, new actors, and new objects.

Ph.D. in Anthropology
(Social Cultural / Archaeology)

Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology

Master of Arts in Folklore

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Lecture Series
290 Lecture Series
MedAnthro Lecture Series
ARF Brown Bag Lecture Series
Emeritus Lecture Series

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