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Details for Professor Helen Lambert
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| Name | Professor Helen Lambert | ||
| Job title | Professor of Medical Anthropology |
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| Department | Bristol Medical School (PHS) University of Bristol |
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| Personal web page | http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk/staff/hlambert.htm | ||
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| Qualifications | D.Phil., D.Phil.(Oxon.) | ||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Royal Anthropological Institute - Chair, Medical Committee Association of Social Anthropologists of UK & Commonwealth American Anthropological Association Medical Anthropology Section |
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| Keywords | medical anthropology India traditional medicine health-seeking behaviour STD/HIV prevention public understanding of medicine risk perception genetic screening |
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| Areas of expertise | I am a social anthropologist who has lived and done research in India as well as the U.K. I am interested in social and cultural aspects of health, health care and healing. I have done research into how ordinary people think about health, illness and medicine and on their choices of therapy (of all types, not just biomedical). |
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