Aimee Medeiros

Job title: 
Associate Professor
Department: 
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Bio/CV: 

Assistant Professor, History of Health Sciences
University of California, San Francisco

Aimee Medeiros is an Associate Professor and Director of the History of Health Sciences Program at UC San Francisco and an affiliated faculty of the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at UC Berkeley. Her work focuses on the reciprocity between diagnoses, preventive care measures, and societal expectations of the body in medicine. Her research areas include the history of pediatrics, race and medicine, history of pharmaceuticals, and twentieth-century therapeutics in the U.S.

Research interests: 

History of Pediatrics
Patient Records
Disability History
Gender Studies
Race and Medicine
Growth Hormone Therapy
Twentieth-Century Clinical Medicine in the U.S.

My work focuses on the reciprocity between diagnoses, preventive care measures, and societal expectations of the body in medicine.