Kelly Knight

Job title: 
Professor
Department: 
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
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Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine & Global Health Sciences University of California, San Francisco

Research interests: 
  • The social construction and experience of addiction
  • Co-morbidity (HIV, substance abuse, mental illness), homelessness, and US urban health
  • Structural competency in medical education and clinical care
  • Chronic non-cancer pain, clinical uncertainty, and scientific evidence
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bi-polar disorder, and the US welfare state
  • Gender, reproduction, motherhood and citizenship
  • The production of knowledge in science, clinical medicine, and public health
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