Why don’t more politicians retire? A medical anthropologist explains how the US could benefit from a mandatory retirement age
As a historian and anthropologist of medicine in the U.S., I have spent years researching the ways that American adults have ...
NYC Medical Examiner's staff are still identifying 9/11 victims' remains – and giving answers to loved ones
The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner has pledged to continue efforts to identify 9/11 victims' remains for as ...
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Michelle Sadler, medical anthropologist: ‘The system puts so many barriers in the way of profound change in childbirth care’
Michelle Sadler (Santiago, Chile, 49 years old) is a medical anthropologist. She has formed part of the Latin American and Caribbean Network for the Humanization of Labor and Birth (RELACAHUPAN ...
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Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
Trained as a medical anthropologist as well a physician, Farmer never stops asking the sometimes uncomfortable question "Why?": Why shouldn't poor people have access to medical care and drugs when ...
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Suzanne Z. Gottschang
Suzanne Gottschang is a medical anthropologist whose work contextualizes how individuals navigate governance and knowledge systems at the intersections of health, science, and medicine. Her research ...
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It's not about career planning. As a medical anthropologist, I can tell you that women are freezing their eggs because of partnership problems.
The following is an adapted excerpt from Marcia C. Inhorn's book "Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs," forthcoming from New York University Press (May 2023). Eighty ...