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Mary-Jo
DelVecchio Good, Ph.D., Professor of Social Medicine, Department of
Social Medicine Harvard Medical School. Past Co-editor in Chief of Culture,
Medicine and Psychiatry, An International Journal of Comparative Cross-Cultural
Research (1986-1992 Associate Editor; 1992-2004 Co Editor-in-Chief);
faculty, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; faculty affiliate,
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; faculty affiliate
and standing committee, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; faculty,
steering committee for Harvard Initiative on Global Health; member,
HMS Joint Committee on the Status of Women; founding faculty of the
NIMH post-doctoral training program in Anthropology and Mental Health
(since 1984-current); core Faculty of the DSM/HMS Fogarty and Freeman
programs in medicine, psychiatry and health policy in Asia. Professor
Good has also been director of the Center for the Study of Culture and
Medicine in the Department of Social Medicine. She is currently a member
of the HIGH seminar on global mental health and faculty director of
DSM’s Global Health concentration. Professor Good teaches and
advises medical students as well as graduate and undergraduate students
in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
Professor Good, a comparative sociologist and medical anthropologist,
received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Professor Good’s research focuses on the study of the culture
and political economy of medicine, biotechnology and bioethics, including
studies of medical education and clinical realities and moral dilemmas
encountered by physicians in the United States and globally. She has
written extensively on the meaning of professional competence and error,
and on clinical narratives in medical education, primary care, oncology
and high-technology medicine. She has had a long standing interest on
gender and medicine and has written on women’s mental health globally
and on child survival and MCH health in low-income countries. A current
project with funding from the Russell Sage Foundation examines the culture
of medicine and psychiatry and disparities in treatment in the United
States. Professor Good was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation,
NYC, 2002-2003.
Professor Good was a Fulbright scholar in Indonesia
from 1996-1997, and she has developed an on-going research and training
collaboration there with the Faculty of Medicine in Gadjah Mada University,
Yogyakarta. She and her husband Byron Good assisted in the founding
of the Center for Bioethics (and related social science research on
ethical issues in medicine) in the Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada
University. Current projects with UGM faculty based in the Center include
a comparative study of the impact of patient death on physicians and
implications for quality of care at the end of life in the United States
and in Indonesia, funded by grants from the Cummings Foundation and
the American-Indonesian Educational Foundation.
In addition to her
research on biomedicine, Professor Good is currently studying political
reformation in Indonesia and the political subjectivity of contemporary
Indonesians, including artists and physicians. She and her husband have
also studied “Amok” and its meaning in Indonesian politics.
Professor Good has previously carried out research on religion and politics
in Turkey, where she was a Peace Corps Volunteer, and in Iran, on social
change and health care and population and health policies. In Pakistan
and in Aceh, Indonesia, she was a scientific advisor and collaborated
with advisees on studies of child survival and health. In addition she
has written with former trainees and colleagues on the impact of HIV/AIDS
on physician resilience and burnout in Kenya and Tanzania. She has also
collaborated with colleagues from Japan and Thailand on comparative
projects studying the ethics of medical disclosure. She is on numerous
editorial boards including the Monograph Series in Medical Anthropology
(Cambridge UP 1994-2004; Rutgers UP 2005), and the Bergham series in
anthropology (Oxford). Professor Good was also a member of the founding
steering committee of the International Forum for Social Science in
Health (1992-1996).
Professor Good has authored over 85 articles and book chapters, and
several monographs including American Medicine, The Quest for Competence
(1998, 1995); Pain as Human Experience (with P. Brodwin, A. Kleinman,
and B. Good) (1994). She has authored and edited Clinical Hermeneutics
(2005 edited and authored with Guido Giarelli et al); and Post Colonial
Disorders (forthcoming) edited with Sandra Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron
Good, and special journal issues including, The Politics of Science:
Culture, Race and Ethnicity in Mental Health, CMP, 2003 (with Doris
Chang and Byron Good); Experiencing Medical Power and the State, Tsanta,
2003 (with Corina Salis Gross); Women, Poverty and AIDS, CMP (1993)
with Paul Farmer and Shirley Lindenbaum; The State, Violence and Race
in Psychiatry, CMP (1991); Transversing Boundaries: European and North
American Perspectives on Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology, CMP,
1990; with D. Gordon and Mariella Pandolfi; and Emotion, Illness and
Healing in the Middle East, CMP, 1988, with Michael M.J. Fischer and
Byron Good. Among her recent articles are “The Biotechnical Embrace”(CMP
2001), “Narrative Nuances on Good and Bad Death: Internists’
Tales from High Technology Medicine” (Soc Sc and Med 2004), “Questioning
Care at the End of Life: Physicians Reflections on Errors and Mistakes”
J Palliative Care, (2005); “The Culture of Medicine and Disparities
in Medical Treatment by Race, Ethnicity and Class” (2003, revised
2005) with B. Good and Anne Becker; and “Why do the Masses So
Easily Run Amok? Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics”
(2001) with Byron Good.
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