Medical History and Bioethics
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Claire Wendland
Biography
As a medical anthropologist, I focus on the globalization of biomedicine, particularly in Africa. Related work includes the anthropology of reproduction, sexuality and the body. I am finishing work on a book that explores the experience of medical students who must learn to be doctors in Malawi. My new research project looks at changing concepts and loci of risk in childbirth in southeast Africa, in a setting in which very high maternal mortality rates force professionals and laypeople alike to develop explanations for the link between birth and death. I am exploring how the narratives of maternal death they produce reflect experiences of a rapidly changing social, economic, and biomedical context.Affiliations: Obstetrics & Gynecology; Medical History and Bioethics; African Studies Program; Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies; Center for Global Health.
Education
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UW-Madison since 2005Ph.D., U Mass Amherst, 2004
Ob/Gyn, University of New Mexico, 1994
M.D., Michigan State University, 1990
Publications
Articles Published in the Last 10 Years
"Research, Therapy, and Bioethical Hegemony: The Controversy over Perinatal HIV Research in Africa." African Studies Review 51(3) [forthcoming December 2008].
"Baby Blues: Considering Contemporary Maternity" [review essay]. Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources, 29(3) [forthcoming December 2008].
"The Vanishing Mother: Cesarean Section and 'Evidence-Based Obstetrics'." Medical Anthropology Quarterly , 21(2):218-233.
"A Qualitative Study of Medical Student Socialization in Malawi’s College of Medicine: Preclinical Training and Identity." in Malawi Medical Journal , 2007, 19(2):68-71, Wendland, Claire and Chiwoza Bandawe.
"Clinical Crisis and Beyond." Malawi Medical Journal 2007, 19(2):71-74, Wendland, Claire and Chiwoza Bandawe
"Lost and Damaged: The Perilous American Pregnancy" [review essay]. Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources 2006, 27(2-3):1-5.
"The Cult of Domesticity and the Brotherhood of Science: Gendering American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century."The Pharos 2006, 69(3):30-37.
Courses
I teach an introductory course in medical anthropology, a graduate seminar in anthropology and international health, and various courses in the anthropology of Africa and in general cultural anthropology. I also have an interest in ethics and have taught both anthropological ethics and bioethics courses.See Claire Wendland's CV
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