Sigma Xi Lecture
Medical Pluralism and Patterns of Medical Choice in a Southern Mexican City: Some Perspectives and Observations
Wednesday, 11 Feb 2004 at 8:00 pm – Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Dr. Michael Whiteford is Professor of Anthropology and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research interests focus on alternative curing practices and health-care decision-making processes, and he has worked in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. His research results have been published in journals such as Medical Anthropological Quarterly, Human Organization, Medical Anthropology, and Social Science and Medicine. He is co-author (with John Friedl) of an introductory anthropology textbook entitled The Human Portrait. With his brother, he edited Crossing currents: Continuity and Change in Latin America. For the past eight years, Dr. Whiteford has been editor of the quarterly Newsletter published by the Society for Applied Anthropology.
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