Institute of International Studies; UC Berkeley
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor of Medical Anthropology. She has done research in and written on Ireland, Brazil and South Africa, and is currently (1999) working on the trade in body parts and violence in southern Africa. She specializes also in psychological anthropology, culture, madness and psychiatry, critical theory, gender, U.S. ethnic groups, and in the area studies of Ireland, Western Europe, and Brazil. She is author of Death Without Weeping (UC Press, 1995).