Prize Nominations 2022 – May Announcement The Career Achievement Award The Career Achievement Award honors an individual who has advanced the field of medical anthropology through career-long contributions to theory or method, and who has been successful in communicating the relevance of medical anthropology to broader publics. They should (1) have advanced the field … Read More
Author: Samantha Evans
Sharon Kaufman, esteemed medical anthropologist, has passed away
Sharon Kaufman, an anthropologist who in her award-winning 2005 book And a Time to Die revolutionized our understanding of emergent forms of death in the hospital and what might be done to transform the end of life, passed away on Saturday, April 2, at her home in Ross, California. She died without pain, surrounded by … Read More
Practicing Care in Crisis: Applied Scholarship in Syndemic Times
“Practicing Care in Crisis: Applied Scholarship in Syndemic Times” is the theme of the upcoming National Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, which will be held in a hybrid virtual/in-person format at the University of California, Los Angeles from April 30-May 1, 2022. We are excited to be joined by our keynote speakers … Read More