Faculty » Juliet McMullin
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Associate Professor Office: 1344 Watkins Hall |
Dr. McMullin specializes in Cultural and Medical Anthropology. The central focus of her work has been to understand the social organization and practice of medical knowledge as it is created and constrained within a political economy of health. Her research, far from naturalizing health as solely a biological process, examines the contexts in which political struggles over health embody inequality and reflect efforts at reconfiguring individual subjectivities and social structures. These issues are explored through the topics of cancer, cultural meanings of health, and more recently, pediatric injury. The knowledge and practices associated with these topics reveal important processes that elaborate the links between inequality, access to healthy environments, and cultural constructions of risk and identity. The issue of cultural meanings of health and counter-hegemonic discourses are evident in her work with Native Hawaiians and her 2009 book manuscript "The Health Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawaiian Health." Cancer inequalities, and the construction of difference, particularly those inequities that affect Latinas in California are elaborated in her School of Advanced Research 2009 co-edited volume "Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology." Currently, Dr. McMullin is working on a four year grant from the National Institutes of Health that will bring issues of inequality and risk to bear on pediatric injury prevention.
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Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Spring 2010 class project. What it’s like to be a college student at the 5th most diverse campus in the US (based on Mike Wesch’s "A Vision of Students Today"). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ4wIPeoD7g
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
McMullin JM, Chavez LR, DeAlba I, Hubbell FA. Influence and beliefs about cervical cancer etiology on pap smear use among Latina immigrants. Ethnicity and Health. 2005 1:3-18
McMullin JM, The Call to Life: Revitalizing a Healthy Hawaiian Identity. Social Science and Medicine. 2005; 61:809-820
McMullin JM, Chavez LR, Hubbell FA. Knowledge, Power and Experience: Variation in Physicians Perceptions of Breast Cancer Risk Factors. Medical Anthropology 1996; 16:295-317.
Chavez LR, McMullinJM, Mishra SI, Hubbell FA. Beliefs Matter: Cultural Beliefs and the Use of Cervical Cancer Screening Tests. American Anthropologist 2001; 103:1-16.