Amy Cooper
Website: http://amycooper.net/
I am an anthropologist studying health care in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. My research and teaching interests include public health, the body, mental illness, homelessness, and aging; the anthropology of citizenship and political activism; and Latin American and Caribbean studies. For over ten years, I have conducted ethnographic research in urban Venezuela, Cuba, and the United States. Through my research I analyze the relationships between political ideologies, health systems, and experiences of bodies, medicine, and subjectivity.
I received my PhD from the University of Chicago's Department of Comparative Human Development. I am currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Saint Louis University.
Address: Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO 63108
I am an anthropologist studying health care in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. My research and teaching interests include public health, the body, mental illness, homelessness, and aging; the anthropology of citizenship and political activism; and Latin American and Caribbean studies. For over ten years, I have conducted ethnographic research in urban Venezuela, Cuba, and the United States. Through my research I analyze the relationships between political ideologies, health systems, and experiences of bodies, medicine, and subjectivity.
I received my PhD from the University of Chicago's Department of Comparative Human Development. I am currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Saint Louis University.
Address: Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO 63108
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meanings to doctor–patient interactions that
reverberate beyond the immediacy of the clinical
encounter to shape political subjectivities. They
seek not just medical goods and services from
clinical interactions but also expressions of
recognition, respect, care, and solidarity from
doctors. I argue that patients who had long
resented what they saw as the Venezuelan state’s
broken promises to use national oil wealth to
provide for its citizens now read its efforts to
address sociopolitical inequalities in the bodily
dispositions of its medical workers. Combining
anthropological approaches to doctor–patient
interactions and to medical embodiment, I show
how doctors’ embodied practices can render
biomedical encounters politically significant for
patients, activating or foreclosing a sense of
sociopolitical belonging. In doing so, I demonstrate
how sociopolitical orders are constructed and
challenged through the intimacies of biomedical
practice. [politics, embodiment, medicine, doctors,
public health, the state, Venezuela, Latin America]
Teaching Documents by Amy Cooper
meanings to doctor–patient interactions that
reverberate beyond the immediacy of the clinical
encounter to shape political subjectivities. They
seek not just medical goods and services from
clinical interactions but also expressions of
recognition, respect, care, and solidarity from
doctors. I argue that patients who had long
resented what they saw as the Venezuelan state’s
broken promises to use national oil wealth to
provide for its citizens now read its efforts to
address sociopolitical inequalities in the bodily
dispositions of its medical workers. Combining
anthropological approaches to doctor–patient
interactions and to medical embodiment, I show
how doctors’ embodied practices can render
biomedical encounters politically significant for
patients, activating or foreclosing a sense of
sociopolitical belonging. In doing so, I demonstrate
how sociopolitical orders are constructed and
challenged through the intimacies of biomedical
practice. [politics, embodiment, medicine, doctors,
public health, the state, Venezuela, Latin America]