Featured Event

Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH
Monday, March 30, 2009 1:00-2:00PM, Fulton Room

Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH, is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. She also serves as Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies.

Inhorn’s research interests revolve around science and technology studies, gender and feminist theory (including masculinity studies), religion and bioethics, globalization and global health, cultures of biomedicine and ethnomedicine, stigma and human suffering.

Over the past 20 years, Inhorn has conducted multi-sited research on the social impact of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America. She is the author of three books on the subject:

• Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt (Routledge, 2003)
• Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Lifein Egypt (U Pennsylvania Press, 1996)
• Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions (U Pennsylvania Press, 1994)

This event is open to the Yale graduate and professional school community. Food will be provided, but sign-up is required. Please RSVP by March 18 ro Ramona Moore at ramona.moore@yale.edu