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Professor, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Adams ran until 2012 the UCSF division of the joint (with UC Berkeley) graduate program in Medical Anthropology. She teaches core theory courses on the history and development of medical anthropology, social studies of science, technology and medicine, and ethnographic field methods. Her research interests include the social conditions and epistemological framings of integrative medicine, international health development, women's health and health care in Tibet,...
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Degrees Ph.D. History of Science and Medicine :: Yale University (2008) M.Phil. History of Medicine and Science :: Yale University (2002) M.S. Engineering and Applied Science :: Yale University (2001)
Dr. Barker is a historian of the molecular biology and biophysics of aging.
He also works on the philosophy of artificial intelligence and on human rights.
He is at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society to research the historiography of the Meselson-Stahl experiment, how paradigms from Cold War international relations and industry...
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Degrees
Ph.D. South & Southeast Asian Studies (Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies): University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Religious Studies: University of Colorado Boulder
M.A. African Studies: Yale University
B.A. Human Biology: Stanford University
Lisa Allette Brooks studies the history and practice of medicine and healing in first millennium South Asia and contemporary Āyurvedic medicine in Kerala. Her research focuses on gendered medical embodiment, expertise, and agency,...
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Professor Emerita of Sociology & Adjunct Professor Emerita of History of Health Sciences, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences University of California, San Francisco
Adele E. Clarke's research centers on social, cultural and historical studies of science, technology and medicine with emphases on biomedicalization and common medical technologies such as contraception and the Pap smear. She is the author of Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the 'Problem of Sex' (University of California Press, 1998). She also co-edited a volume...
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Degrees MPH, Interdisciplinary Studies :: University of California, Berkeley (2004) Residency :: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (1986) MD :: Meharry Medical College (1981)
Crawley's current research interests include: identifying unique spiritual care needs across the various trajectories of functional decline that precede death; and the phenomenology of spirituality among patients suffering from dementia.
In the field of medicine and ethics, LaVera is internationally known for her work on health disparities for palliative and end...
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine Director, Graduate Programs in History of Health Sciences Director, UC Medical Humanities Consortium University of California, San Francisco
Brian Dolan is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at UCSF. He teaches graduate seminars on the history of medicine that cover topics including early-modern environmental health, medical epistemology, the rise of laboratory...
John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow in Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the co-editor of Globalization's Muse: Universities and Higher Education Systems in a Changing World (Public Policy Press, 2009), and the author of The Conditions for Admissions (Stanford Press 2007) and The California Idea and American Higher Education (Stanford University Press, 2000 and 2007; published in Chinese in 2008 and in Japanese 2012). Among the research projects he co-founded and remains the...
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Research Assistant Professor, Program on Science, Technology, and Society, Tufts University Research Fellow, Program on Science, Technology & Society, Harvard University Research Affiliate, Program on Emerging Technology, MIT
Sam studies the way research and technology become "of security concern" for states. He draws on and contributes to the literature on classification, boundary work, international political/technological institutions, and the co-production of social and technological systems.
