Society for Medical Anthropology

A section of the American Anthropological Association

Academic Resources: Graduate Programs

 

Case Western Reserve University

Degrees offered:

  • MA, Ph.D., MA/MSN, MD/Ph.D.

Faculty:

  • Eileen Anderson-Fye, Ed. D. (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles)
    Assistant Professor; Associate Director, Schubert Center for Child Development Psychological and medical anthropology; culture, gender, and human development; anthropology of adolescence; globalization; immigration, and mental health; eating and body image disorders; child abuse and trauma; person-centered ethnography; mixed methods; Belize; and Belizean immigrants in the U.S.
  • Cynthia M. Beall (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) Sarah Idell Pyle Professor
    Physical anthropology Human growth, development and aging; human ecology; nomads; Andes, Tibet, Himalayas, Mongolia.
  • Atwood D. Gaines (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley; School of Public Health) Professor; Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing; Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Biomedical Ethics, School of Medicine. Medical and psychiatric anthropology; religion; aging; cultural studies of science; bioethics; social identity; United States, the Mediterranean.
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein (M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Washington) John Reynolds Harkness Professor and Chair, Director Center for Research on Tibet. Social cultural anthropology; development/population anthropology; cross-cultural aging; cultural ecology, ethnicity and nationalism, anthropology and history; Tibet, China, Mongolia, Himalayas.
  • Lawrence P. Greksa (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) Professor
    Physical anthropology; human biology; modernization; Polynesia, South America; Old Order Amish.
  • Charlotte Ikels (Ph.D., University of Hawaii) Professor
    Gerontology; health care; urban life; comparative bioethics; Hong Kong, China, United States
  • Jill E. Korbin (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Professor, Director Childhood Studies, Co-Director, Schubert Center for Child Development. Cultural and medical anthropology; cross-cultural child rearing and family studies; child abuse and neglect; family violence; neighborhood; United States; Old Order Amish.
  • Janet McGrath (Ph.D., Northwestern University) Associate Professor; Assistant Professor of International Health, School of Medicine. Biological and biomedical anthropology; anthropology of disease; international health; AIDS, urban health; United States, Africa.
  • Jim Shaffer (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison) Associate Professor
    Archaeology; Middle East; Central Asia; Indus Valley.

Medical Anthropologists in other Departments

  • Patricia A. Marshall (Ph.D. U. Kentucky) Bioethics, HIV/AIDS. (primary appointment in Department of Bioethics, Medical School) (beginning January 2001).

Program Description

  • The Medical Anthropology Program at CWRU is one of the oldest graduate programs in Medical Anthropology in the country. The program provides students with rigorous training covering the breadth of the field. Students undergo rigorous training in anthropological theory and method under the guidance of faculty actively engaged in research both domestically and internationally. The objective of the Medical Anthropology Program is to train medical anthropologists, physicians, nurses and other health professionals (1) to recognize and deal with, on both theoretical and practical levels, the complex relations between the biological, social, cultural, psychological, economic, and techno-environmental determinants and concomitants of sickness and health; and (2) to analyze and evaluate how health services are organized and delivered. Recent department graduates have been employed in academic institutions, international health organizations, and government agencies, (e.g., The Centers for Disease Control). Within the Medical Anthropology Program, students may choose the general Medical Anthropology track or a concentration in Urban Health, Cross-Cultural Aging, International Health, or Psychological Anthropology.
  • Students have the opportunity to work and study with faculty at the School of Nursing and the Medical School, including, the Bioethics program, and the MPH program. Joint degrees with Nursing and Medicine are offered.

Contact information:

  • Department of Anthropology
    Case Western Reserve University
    Cleveland, OH 44106-7125
    Phone: (216) 368-2264
    Fax: (216) 368-5334
    Web site: http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/anth/index.html