Global Health Colloquium: The Toxic Womb
Kelly Knight presents "The Toxic Womb: Opioid-Addicted Pregnancy as Site and Metaphor for a Dying American Dream." Dr. Knight is associate professsor of anthropology, history and social medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Her book-length ethnography, addicted.pregnant.poor (Duke University Press, 2015), was awarded the British Sociological Association’s Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness (FSHI) 2016 Book Award, was a finalist for the 2015 C. Wright Mills Award, and received an Honorable Mention for the Society of Medical Anthropology’s Eileen Basker 2016 Book Prize.
Organized by the Global Health Program and cosponsored by the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Program in American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Department of Anthropology.