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Medical anthropology studies "human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation". [ 1] It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives. [ 2] It is one of the most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology, [ 3] and is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that examines the ...
Kamala Harris's father, Donald J. Harris, [8] is a Stanford University professor of economics (emeritus) who arrived in the United States from Jamaica in 1961, for graduate study at UC Berkeley, and received a PhD in economics in 1966. [9] Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan met in 1962 and were married in 1963.
The Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences is the heart of the undergraduate program and grants the majority of Stanford University 's degrees. The School has 27 departments and 20 interdisciplinary degree-granting programs. The School was officially created in 1948, from the merger of the Schools of Biological Sciences ...
Chavez is currently a Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine, [2] where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on immigration, international migration, culture and visual images, and medical anthropology. Chavez's research interests include international migration; household and family organization, composition ...
Avner Greif, economist. Caroline Hoxby, professor of economics. Ro Khanna, visiting lecturer of economics (2012–2016), deputy assistant secretary in the United States Department of Commerce (2009–2011), U.S. Congressman (2017–present) Jonathan Levin, professor of economics, won the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal.
The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858. This medical institution, then called Cooper Medical College, was acquired by Stanford in ...
Faye D. Ginsburg, Professor of Anthropology and Director, Certificate Program in Culture and Media, New York University; Francine du Plessix Gray, Writer, Warren, Connecticut; Mark Irwin Greene, John Eckman Professor of Medical Sciences and Head, Immunology and Center for Receptor Biology and Cell Growth, University of Pennsylvania
Tanya Marie Luhrmann (born 1959) is an American psychological anthropologist known for her studies of modern-day witches, charismatic Christians, and studies of how culture shapes psychotic, dissociative, and related experiences. She has also studied culture and morality, and the training of psychiatrists. She is Watkins University Professor in ...