Date of Birth | 25-September-1944 | |
Place of Birth |
New York City (New York, United States of America, Area code 917) |
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Nationality | United States of America | |
Profession | Professor, Anthropologist | |
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is a professor of Anthropology and director of the program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. She is known for her writing on the anthropology of the body, hunger, illness, medicine, psychiatry, madness, social suffering, violence and genocide. In 2009 her investigation of an international ring of organ sellers based in New York, New Jersey and Israel led to a number of arrests by the FBI. |
Awards by Nancy Scheper-Hughes |
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Check all the awards nominated and won by Nancy Scheper-Hughes. | ||
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