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Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine University of California, San Francisco
Dorothy Porter is Professor in the History of Health Sciences and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Her last monograph was published by Routledge entitled Health, Civilisation and the State. A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (1999). She is currently writing a history of the relationship between the social sciences and medicine in twentieth-century...
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Editor and Manager of the Science and Technology Section, Los Angeles Review of Books Email: m.pridmorebrown@gmail.com, mpb@berkeley.edu, mpb@lareviewofbooks.orgDissertation Fascist Modernism and the Poetics of Technology Degrees Ph.D. Comparative Literature with an Emphasis in the History of Science :: Stanford University B.A. Math and English :: Pomona...
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Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences University of California, San Francisco
Shim's research lies at the intersections of three major arenas within sociology: the sociology of health and illness, of science, technology,and medicine, and of racial, class, and gender inequality. She particularly interested in tracing the relationships between conceptions of risk, definitions of difference, the organization of biomedical science and clinical practice, and the social and cultural landscape. Shim uses social constructionist and symbolic...
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Brandi Thompson Summers is an Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia in 2024, Dr. Summers was an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines the relationship between and function of race, space, urban infrastructure, and architecture. She is a contributing writer for Places Journal, and has published several articles and essays that analyze the relationship...
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Lucia Tanassi (PhD 2002) is a medical anthropologist, bioethicist and clinical social worker who has worked on the ethics of the ends of life for more than a decade. She trained in medical anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and completed a Bioethics Fellowship with the Program in Medicine and Human Values. Her work has focused on agency, personhood and the relationships and meanings produced in therapeutic encounters—beginning with her fieldwork on routine episiotomy in Italy, to her work in palliative care, organ donation policy, plastination, and ethical dilemmas in critical...
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, UC Riverside
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Elizabeth Watkins became Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at UC Riverside on May 1, 2021.
As Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, Watkins is the chief academic and operating officer for the campus, providing leadership to the entire academic enterprise, managing day-to-day operations of the university, overseeing resources allocation, and serving as a member of the campus leadership team. In the Chancellor's absence, the Provost serves as UCR's chief executive officer.
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Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Former Director, Berkeley Program in STS and PhD Designated Emphasis in STS (2011-2017)
Former Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley
David Winickoff's research centers on the interaction of science, norms, and political structure in the governance of human health and the environment, with a particular focus on biotechnology and the law. The work draws upon law and Science, and Technology Studies (STS) to analyze and address socio-legal problems...
