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Overview
For over 50 years, the Joint UCB/UCSF Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology has been one of the pioneering programs in the discipline both nationally and globally. The program provides disciplinary leadership and an outstanding and comprehensive training leading to the Ph.D. degree. Foci include critical medical anthropology; psychiatric and psychological anthropology; gender and queer theory; disability studies; health, citizenship, immigration and the global; violence in wartime and peacetime as a medical topic; studies of science, technology and modernity; intersections of medicine and social theory; Latin American Social Medicine and critical epidemiology; communicative justice in health; racialization and health inequities; and innovative ethnographic scholarship. Students who enter the Program on the Berkeley side are required to have at least one member of the UCSF faculty on their qualifying examination and dissertation committees.