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Cultural Studies of Biomedicine
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Pharmaceutical Reason: Subject and Psychotrope in Buenos Aires

I want to be Normal Again: Pediatric Cancer Survivor Identities and the Influence of Ethnicity and Social Class

HIV, Disease Plague, Demoralization and "Burnout": Resident Experience of the Medical Profession in Nairobi, Kenya. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Pediatric Oncology, International Protocols, and Medical Competence in Indonesia

 

 

Research: Selected Projects

Clinical Narratives and Worlds of Oncology
Initial Funding: Nathan Cummings Foundation
PI: Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

Comparative Perspectives on Biomedicine
Clinical Realities and Moral Dilemmas in East Africa
Initial Funding: Carnegie Corporation
DSM faculty and Carnegie Fellows

Comparative Perspectives on Biomedicine and Biotechnology in Indonesia
Initial Funding: Fulbright
PI: Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

The Impact of Patient Death on Physicians in Internal Medicine at Academic Medical Centers: 1998-2002
Initial Funding: Cummings Foundation
PI's: Susan Block, M.D. HMS and DFCI, Partners; Robert Arnold, M.D. University of Pittsburgh
Qualitative Data Analysis Research Team: Mary-Jo Good, Nina Gadmer and Matthew Lakoma and Patricia Ruopp, BA, MA, Harvard School of Education

The Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic and Class Disparities in Health Care
Initial Funding: Institute of Medicine 2001-2002
PI and Co-PI s: Mary-Jo Good, Cara James, Anne Becker, Byron Good

Ethnicity and Differential Access to Care for Eating
Disorder Symptoms
Initial Funding: Funding Source for Anne Becker's project: Irene Pollin Fellowship in Memory of Cherry Adler
(HMS 50th anniversary program) and the Harvard Eating Disorders Center
PI: Anne Becker


Diversity, Disparities, and the Culture of Medicine and Public Health
Seminar Project with Russell Sage Foundation, 2001-2002
Harvard Contact: Professor Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

Current HMS student research projects


Caring for Patients with HIV and Physician Burnout in Kenya
Awardee: Giuseppe Raviola
Initial Funding: Paul Dudley White International Fellowship
Publication: HIV, Disease Plague, Demoralization and "Burnout": Resident Experience of the Medical Profession in Nairobi, Kenya. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, March 2002.

Awardee: Larissa Meyer, HMS 2002
Title: The Rationale and Irrationalities of Protocols in the Developing
World: A Case Study of the WK-2000 Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Protocol in a University, Tertiary Care Hospital in Indonesia
Initial Funding: Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellowship, Harvard
University

Recent Harvard Undergraduate Research Theses

Awardee: Tricia Michels
"'Patients Like Us': The Quality of Publicly Funded Health Care for Pregnant Teenagers," Department of Sociology
Hoopes Prize 2000
Publication: "Patients like us": pregnant and parenting teens view the health care system. Public Health Reports. 115(6):557-75, 2000 Nov-Dec.

Awardee: Michael Tang
"'I want to be Normal Again': Pediatric Cancer Survivor Identities and the Influence of Ethnicity and Social Class," Department of Sociology
Hoopes Prize 2001



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