The Medical Humanities Report would like to welcome Heidi Connealy, who recently joined the program in Bioethics, Humanities, and Society as the Undergraduate Specialization Advisor. She is a doctoral student in the medical anthropology program at Michigan State University. Heidi’s research interests include the use of racial and genetic categories in medicine, asthma management, health disparities, ideals of motherhood, and biomedicine as a cultural system. Heidi is beginning dissertation research on lay and professional understandings of asthma’s causes and management in Michigan.
The MHR would also like to welcome its new editor, Lisa Campo Engelstein. She is a doctoral student in the department of philosophy with interests in bioethics, feminism, social/political philosophy, and ethics and development. She received her Masters in philosophy from Michigan State University in May 2005, writing a Masters thesis entitled “A Feminist Critique of Rational Democratic Deliberation for Health Care Rationing.”