Professor Emerita, Anthropology; Conrad Phillip Kottak Collegiate Lecturer in Anthropology
About
Holly Peters-Golden is a Lecturer IV in Anthropology, a Senior Founding Faculty Fellow in the Program for Society and Medicine, and a Senior Faculty Associate in both the Michigan Forum on Health Care Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at The University of Michigan Medical School.
She has published work on stigma and social roles, physician-patient communication, breast cancer, and has authored an undergraduate Case Studies textbook. Her current interests within medical anthropology include illness narrative, the construction of self and personhood in illness; the production of medical knowledge; risk; explanatory models of illness, and social construction of disease.
Affiliation(s)
- Program for Society and Medicine
- Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
