A Companion to Medical Anthropology. Группа авторов

Notes on Contributors

      César E. Abadía-Barrero is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. His research has demonstrated how for-profit interests transform access, continuity, and quality of health care. He has conducted action-oriented ethnographic and mixed-method research on health-care privatization, health-care policies and programs, human rights judicialization and advocacy, and social movements in health in Brazil and Colombia. Currently, Dr. Abadía-Barrero is examining an intercultural proposal to replace environmental degradation with “buen vivir” (good living) in postpeace accord Colombia. In another project in the United States, he is studying the role of capitalism in dysregulating children’s bodies. He is the author of I Have AIDS but I am Happy: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS, and Social Responses in Brazil (2011) and Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care (Forthcoming).

      Elise Andaya (PhD, New York University, 2007) is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Associate of the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities at the University at Albany (SUNY). She is a cultural medical anthropologist whose prize-winning research examines reproductive health, health-care policy and practice, and health disparities in the United States and Cuba. Her current research examines the race, health inequalities, and time (especially experiences of waiting) in the delivery of prenatal public health care in a New York City safety-net hospital.

      Hans A. Baer is Principal Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Utah in 1976. Baer taught at several US colleges and universities both on a regular and on a visiting basis. He was a Fulbright Lecturer at Humboldt University in East Berlin in 1988–1989. In 2004 Baer taught at the Australian National University and has been based at the University of Melbourne since 2006, as a regular academic until December 2013. He has published 25 books and some 220 book chapters and academic articles on a diversity of research topics, including Mormonism, African-American religion, sociopolitical life in East Germany before and after unification, critical health anthropology, medical pluralism in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, the critical anthropology of climate change, Australian climate politics, mobility studies, and the political economy of higher education. Baer’s most recent books include Airplanes, the Environment, and the Human Condition (Routledge, 2020); Grappling with Societies and Institutions in the Era of Socio-Ecological Crisis: Journey of a Radical Anthropologist (Lexington Books, 2020), and Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia: An Eco-Socialist Vision for the Future (Routledge, 2022). He considers himself a scholar-activist and has been involved in a wide array of social movements, including the peace, labor, anti-apartheid, ethnic rights, environment, climate justice, and socialist movements.

      Ron Barrett is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. Conducting field research in India and North America, he has examined the ways that people come to terms with their mortality, ritual healing practices, and the social dynamics of infectious diseases. His dissertation research on mortality-informed stigma and the religious healing of leprosy is the topic of a book, Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death and Healing in Northern India (University of California Press), which received the 2008 Welcome Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute. Together with George Armelagos, he coauthored An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections, the second edition of which will be published in 2022 as Emerging Infections: The Human Determinants of Pandemic Diseases from Prehistory to the Present (Oxford University Press). Prior to his academic career, Barrett was a registered nurse with clinical experience in hospice, brain injury rehabilitation, and neurointensive care.

      Charles L. Briggs is Professor of Anthropology, Co-Director of Medical Anthropology Program, Co-Director of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, University of California, Berkeley, and the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Wood Carvers of Córdova, New Mexico: Social Dimensions of an Artistic “Revival”; Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research; Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality (with Richard Bauman); Competence in Performance: The Creativity of Tradition in Mexicano Verbal Art; Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare (with Clara Mantini-Briggs); Making Health Public: How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life (with Daniel Hallin); Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge and Communicative Justice (with Clara Mantini-Briggs); and Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge. He has received such honors as the James Mooney Award, the Chicago Folklore Prize, Edward Sapir Book Prize, the J. I. Staley Prize, the Américo Paredes Prize, the New Millennium Book Award, the Cultural Horizons Prize, the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, the School for Advanced Research, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is currently President of the Society for Medical Anthropology.

Heide Castañeda is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her research areas include political and legal anthropology, medical anthropology, borders, migration, migrant health, citizenship, and policing, focusing on the US/Mexico border, United States, Mexico, Germany, and Morocco. She is the author of Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families (Stanford University Press, 2019) and co-editor of Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States (NYU Press, 2018). Her latest book is Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives (Routledge). Dr. Castañeda has also published dozens of research articles on migration and health-care access for immigrant populations. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Fulbright Program, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

      Kitty Corbett is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby/Vancouver, Canada. She has expertise in multimethod research, change theories, health communication, knowledge translation, cultural diversity, social marketing, and public health advocacy. She has contributed to public health projects and research addressing local to global health challenges of antibiotic resistance, appropriate pharmaceutical use, HIV and STI prevention, tobacco use, Chagas disease, cancer prevention, and promotion of local and traditional foods. With students, community partners, and colleagues, she has collaborated on and directed projects in the United States, Canada, Taiwan, Vietnam, Mongolia, Russia, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Argentina, and other countries. She has twice been a Fulbright Scholar, in Taiwan and Mexico.

      William W. Dressler (PhD Connecticut, 1978) is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. His research interests focus on cognitive culture theory, research methods, and especially the relationship

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