Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs study challenges to neoliberal health policies and new understandings of health, citizenship, and the state emerging from revolutionary healthcare in Venezuela. Against this background, he has explored the ways in which perceptions of race, class, and citizenship play into and, at times, challenge and resist the naturalization and normalization of social and health inequalities. Holmes also studies the ways in which health professionals come to understand and respond to social difference and the ways race and racialization function differently in the lives of indigenous Mexican immigrant youth depending on spatial and social context.
Other Berkeley anthropology faculty bring important resources to graduate student training in the critical analysis of medicine, science, and psychiatry. Laura Nader was instrumental in helping to define the field and remains a leading scholar of medicine and the state. Stanley Brandes has studied many topics of relevance to the field, including alcohol and culture and questions of death and the body.
Aihwa Ong helped define the field of global anthropology and continues to work on biotechnology in various sites in North America, Southeast Asia, and China. Mariane Ferme has analyzed and written on global health and development, including epidemics, outbreaks and their responses. In addition, our colleagues on the UCSF side of the Joint Program contribute cutting-edge anthropological work on global health, humanitarianism, critical studies of racialization, metrics in the health sciences, urban health, social studies of science and genetics, gender and health, aging and death, dental health, ethics of research and care, and medical history.
The breadth and depth of our core faculty at Berkeley, our links with colleagues across the Berkeley campus, and our close educational and research collaboration with faculty on the UCSF side of the Joint Program make this one of the broadest and most dynamic contexts for medical anthropology in the country and the world. Programs List. Topics of active research include: Violence and trauma Psychiatric and psychological anthropology, ethnopsychiatry, and psychoanalysis Genomics and ethics Transplantation and organ and tissue commodification Citizenship, immigration, refugeeism, and the body Youth and child survival Hunger, infectious disease, development, and governmentality Traditional medicine and its modernity Sexuality, gender, and the commodity form Geriatrics and dementia Death, dying, and the politics of "bare life" Disability studies The core faculty on the Berkeley side of the Joint Program form an organized research group called Critical Studies in Medicine, Science, and the Body.
Our program recognizes that the modern life sciences involve much more than the generation of knowledge about biological processes. By fostering insight into the entwinement of biomedical knowledge and human society, the MD-PhD Program enables trainees to explore the practices and paradigms that contribute to health inequality, and to innovate clinical and investigative frameworks of moral responsiveness and care.
Exploring the full breadth of anthropological inquiry, MD-PhD trainees are advised and supported during the entirety of their clinical and research training by faculty in Anthropology as well as across the social sciences and humanities. As they carry out ethnographic projects within the United States and across the globe, they are making critical interventions in diverse fields including medical anthropology, science and technology studies, political anthropology, urban studies, and feminist and critical race studies.
Immersed in integrated training at all stages, students develop a practice of inquiry and care that is fully medical and fully anthropological. Because we believe this inquiry is best done in collaboration, the Anthropology Track in the Penn MD-PhD Program draws upon our unique multidisciplinary training and breadth of interests to build a praxis of peer mentorship and support. Together, members of the Penn MSTP Anthropology community are reimagining a critical and politically engaged medicine for the 21st century.
For inquiries about the program, please feel free to contact Dr. Adriana Petryna , Edmund J. Lessons on Ebola: Alex Chen studies emergency disease preparedness. This is a personal statement which should address the factors that have encouraged you to seek an education from Penn Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, including any significant personal or professional experiences related to your program of study.
The essay should be no more than words or characters. These materials will be used for the initial review process by the MD-PhD program and the Anthropology Graduate group. Candidates who are selected for an interview will then be asked to complete additional application materials by the Anthropology Graduate Group. Adriana Petryna, Dr.
Deborah Thomas, Dr. Frances Barg, Ms. What did I do before this? After undergrad, I completed a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Chile focused on intercultural mental health services. Situated at the intersections between anthropology and health services research, my research focuses on how health policy and scientific evidence are operationalized in health services, and how patients and providers navigate these services in the US and Latin America. Currently, my project focuses on approaches to culturally adapting mental health services for indigenous Mapuche patients in Southern Chile.
What are my medical interests? Want to get in touch? Email me at Randall. Burson pennmedicine. This research led me to a master's program in Medical Anthropology at Oxford, where I got a crash course in the discipline of anthropology and honed both my research interests and my desire to practice clinical medicine, not just study it anthropologically.
Just before medical school, I worked in a lab studying the malignant progression of breast cancer and spent my spare time teaching sex education, a formative experience in terms of my current research interests. I'm unlike the rest of my cohort in that I'm split between two institutions: I started medical school at UCSF, and during the first year realized that I really wanted to pursue a PhD as well, which I'm lucky enough to be doing here at Penn. Application to the Ph. You should indicate your medical anthropology interest in the statement of purpose when applying to the Ph.
Application information is available on the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website. Students who are interested in the career path described above should consider this type of program.
It is meant to prepare individuals to become physician-scholars who will devote a substantial portion of their career to research and academic scholarship. If your career goal is to become a physician who spends most of your time caring for patients and teaching in a medical school, then this program is probably not for you. The PhD is an enormous investment of time and work in a specialized area of research, and is designed for individuals who will be the future leaders in those academic fields.
If your goal is to conduct research on a topic related to medicine, but you are not interested in clinical work, then the PhD alone is probably a better choice for you. There are many examples of successful researchers who do not have an MD, and who are studying important topics relevant to health care, often with a team of experts that includes clinically trained individuals. Medical school is a big investment of time and work, and at least two years of the curriculum involve interacting directly with patients in hospitals and other settings.
The MD is an important part of training for those who wish to be both researchers and physicians, but it is not necessarily required for those who want to spend all of their time doing research on medically relevant issues, and who do not feel drawn to patient care. MD-PhD curricula in the social sciences and humanities are similar to those in other disciplines.
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