Juliet McMullin
Prior to joining the Department of Family Medicine to serve as Director and Endowed Chair in Medical Humanities and Arts. I served as a Professor of Anthropology, Co-Director and Community Engagement and Dissemination Lead for the Center for Health Disparities Research. I developed and served as the Director for Medical and Health Humanities Designated Emphasis in the School of Medicine and in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UCR and developed the undergraduate Minor in Medical and Health Humanities.
My key research and teaching interests include health equity, narrative and medicine, graphic medicine, social dimensions of cancer, land-based health, and community engaged research. I am the author of The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawaiian Health, and co-editor of Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology. My work has been published in the Journal of Medical Humanities, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, and other peer-reviewed journals. My research and program development work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. I currently serves on the editorial board for the journal Literature and Medicine, and as a co-editor for Penn State Press’s Graphic Medicine Series.
My new projects build on my interests in health equity and social determinants that might foster obligation and compassion as a path to wellbeing for patients and health care professionals alike. Central to my new projects are the development of spaces for equal engagement and diverse forms of expression in research and education.
Phone: 951-827-9250
Address: University of California, Riverside
Department of Anthropology
900 University Ave.
Riverside, Ca 92521
My key research and teaching interests include health equity, narrative and medicine, graphic medicine, social dimensions of cancer, land-based health, and community engaged research. I am the author of The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawaiian Health, and co-editor of Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology. My work has been published in the Journal of Medical Humanities, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, and other peer-reviewed journals. My research and program development work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. I currently serves on the editorial board for the journal Literature and Medicine, and as a co-editor for Penn State Press’s Graphic Medicine Series.
My new projects build on my interests in health equity and social determinants that might foster obligation and compassion as a path to wellbeing for patients and health care professionals alike. Central to my new projects are the development of spaces for equal engagement and diverse forms of expression in research and education.
Phone: 951-827-9250
Address: University of California, Riverside
Department of Anthropology
900 University Ave.
Riverside, Ca 92521
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real through individual suffering, stigma, and inequality. This article traces concepts developed from a primarily US-centered discourse to a global cancer discourse, including cancer-related issues continuing to raise concern such as stigma, narrative moments of critical reflection on the dominance of biomedicine, and processes by which individuals and communities manage inadequate access to biomedical technologies. Beyond the medical relations
and politics of cancer, this article considers the ways in which ethnography addresses local moral worlds and differences that come to matter in attending to the disease, the person, and consequent social and material relations.
of universal suffering. Second, I examine tropes of hope and difference as a biotechnical embrace. Finally, I consider biosociality within the context of this imaginary and the
construction of a meaningful life. Autobiographical graphic narrative as a creative genre that seeks to give voice to individual illness experiences in the context of biomedicine raises anthropological questions about the interplay between the ordinary and biolegitmate. Cancer graphic narratives deconstruct the big events to demonstrate the ordinary ways that a life constructed as different becomes valued through access to medical technologies. [graphic narratives, cancer, health inequalities, biolegitimacy, medical imaginary]