Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Anthropologist, Academic
1944 –
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Who is Nancy Scheper-Hughes?
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.
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- Born
- 1944
New York City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
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on July 23, 2013
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