Medical Anthropology PhD

About this programme

The Joint UCB/UCSF PhD in Medical Anthropology is one of the pioneering programs in the discipline both nationally and globally. The program provides disciplinary leadership and an outstanding and comprehensive training leading to the PhD degree. No other program offers the Joint Program's combination of excellence in critical medical anthropology; psychiatric and psychological anthropology; gender and queer theory; disability studies; health, citizenship, immigration and the global; violence in wartime and peacetime as a medical topic; studies of science, technology and modernity; intersections of medicine and social theory; and innovative ethnographic scholarship. 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. This group links medical anthropology, science and technology studies, postcolonial anthropology, disability studies, critical development and humanitarianism studies, psychological and psychoanalytic anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. There six faculty members in the group: Charles L.