Claire Wendland

Ph.D., U Mass Amherst, 2004
M.D., Michigan State University, 1990
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
At UW-Madison since 2005

Cultural Anthropology

Affiliations: Obstetrics & Gynecology; Medical History and Bioethics; African Studies Program; Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies; Center for Global Health

Research

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 a research project on the acculturation of medical students to the work of being doctors in Malawi; upcoming research will focus on changing concepts and loci of risk in childbirth in southeast Africa.

Select Publications

• (forthcoming 2007) Wendland, Claire. Cesarean Section and "Evidence-Based Obstetrics". Medical Anthropology Quarterly 21(2).
• 2006 Wendland, Claire. Lost and Damaged: The Perilous American Pregnancy. Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources 27(2-3):1-5.
• 2006 Wendland, Claire.   The Cult of Domesticity and the Brotherhood of Science: Gendering American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. The Pharos 69(3):30-37.

Contact

Office: 4231 Sewell Social Science Bldg.
Office phone: (608) 262-3874 (no voicemail)
Email address: cwendland@wisc.edu