elizabeth hallowell
Graduate Student
ehal@sas.upenn.edu
Concentration:
Cultural/Medical
Education:
BSFS, Georgetown University Research Interests:
medical anthropology, Central America, US; maternal health, public health history, birth and biomedicine, states of emergency/emergency medicine
Biography Page Content:
My research focuses on the intersection between the
(pregnant/gendered) body, biomedicine, and liberal conceptions of
rights and belonging in the contemporary United States. My dissertation
research (to begin in 2012) will be an ethnographic and archival look
at individual experiences of pregnancy, with particular attention to
the processes of defining and screening for pregnancy-related
emergencies, and larger biomedical and legal/regulatory framings of
(maternal) healthcare. Specifically, I will be looking at the interplay
between broad political economic shifts within U.S. healthcare/health
law and individual experiences of pregnancy-related care and bodily
vulnerability.
