Research Interests
- the treatment of chronic discomfort with Chinese medicine
- methodology in integrative medicine research
- the globalization of Chinese medicine
- the development of integrative medicine in the U.S. and China
- morality and reflective practice in medical care
I am a linguistic and medical anthropologist with an emphasis in psychological and biocultural medical anthropology, as well as a licensed practitioner of Chinese medicine. My work, very broadly, focuses on the intersection of language and embodied experience in relation to culturally situated ideologies of race, class, gender, health and selfhood.
I am also interested in work that integrates anthropology, neuroscience, and clinical research in a holistic framework with potential to affect health outcomes in several domains. In general, I am interested in several broad areas, including:
- embodied social justice
- language, emotion, and the body
- intimacy, self-development, social action and cultural change in China
- translation in Chinese medicine
- methodology in integrative medicine research
- the globalization of Chinese medicine
- the development of integrative medicine in the U.S. and China
Subject Areas:
- Biocultural Medical Anthropology : biocultural-linguistic approach, culture and health
- Identities and Inequalities: race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, class and status, intersectionality
- Decolonization.
