This is a session organized by the Society for Medical Anthropology. Below you’ll find the chairs of the session as well as the speakers in the order of their presentations.
For Love and Money: Employment Opportunities in Medical Anthropology.
(Medical Anthropology Student Association Forum)
Nationally and internationally recognized practitioners will offer personal reflections and guidance, focusing on careers in medical anthropology. Panelists will discuss their professional training, how they got their jobs, and activities they perform in their work. They will also outline some of the skills students need to be employable. The floor will then open for questions and discussion. A reception will follow, allowing students to meet one-on-one with the practitioners on the panel, to solicit personal career guidance.
Chairs:
Katherine Pritchard (U Memphis) Second year graduate student in Medical Anthropology at The University of Memphis –
kpritchard2 (at) netzero (dot) net
and Amorita E. Valdez (U Michigan)
Panelists:
Lenore Manderson (Monash U)
Short bio: PhD, FASSA, FWAAS, holds appointment as Research Professor both in the School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She works as a medical anthropologist and social historian, and in sociology and public health, on gender and sexuality, infectious and non-communicable disease, among minority populations in Australia and in Asia and Africa. She was awarded an inaugural Australia Research Council Federation Fellowship, and in association with this has been conducting research in Australia and Southeast Asia on gender, chronic illness, disability, social relationships and well-being. She was a founding member of IASSCS and President from 2001-2003. She has worked extensively to strengthen institution capability and develop research capacity in the social sciences, gender and health. In 2008, she is the Hillel Friedland Fellow and Visiting Professor, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of the Witwatersrand. She is the author, among many other works, of a series of articles on the social history of medicine in colonial Malaya, and of Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870-1940, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1996).
Jamie Russell (TN State DOH)
Douglas A. Feldman (SUNY-Brockport)
Professor, Department of Anthropology,
The College at Brockport, State University of New York,
350 New Campus Drive, Brockport, NY 14626 USA;
(585) 395-5709; dfeldman (at) brockport (dot) edu
Barbara Rylko-Bauer (Michigan St U)
Merrill Singer (CHIP, U Connecticut)
Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts (DHHS)
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Session took place in Memphis, TN at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2008.
