Bodies of knowledge: medical anthropology and interdisciplinarity
Medical anthropology at Oxford was intended to be a short-term departure from my first degree in chemical engineering, motivated by my desire to understand health and illness in the context of wider society rather than within the confines of the lab. Ultimately Oxford medical anthropology became som...
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Anthropological Society of Oxford
2015
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| Summary: | Medical anthropology at Oxford was intended to be a short-term
departure from my first degree in chemical engineering, motivated by
my desire to understand health and illness in the context of wider
society rather than within the confines of the lab. Ultimately Oxford
medical anthropology became something much more significant for me:
a journey into unknown intellectual waters that led me to redefine both
my career path and my academic identity. After being part of the first
MSc/MPhil cohort and completing doctoral research within the
programme in 2007, I became a postdoctoral research officer within
Oxford's Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity before serving as
Departmental Lecturer in Medical Anthropology from 2008-2014. I
now work within the Health Services Research Unit, part of Oxford's
Medical Sciences Division, where I hope to contribute the insights of
medical anthropology towards interdisciplinary research informing
health practice and policy at the national level. |
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