Diane K. Lewis Home  Directory Diane K. Lewis
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Teaching Specialties: Applied anthropology, medical anthropology, epidemiology and nthropology, development anthropology.
Area of Research: Minorities and AIDS.
Area of Fieldwork: U.S.A. (currently); Malaysia (formerly). |
| Long Description | |
Diane Lewis is a medical anthropologist who is studying the AIDS epidemic. Her focus is on how ethnicity, gender, and class structure responses to the disease. She is also interested in how research on AIDS is helping to redefine the discipline, specifically the impact of such studies on debates about knowledge and power, theory and practice, and the ethics of fielwork. Her recent writings combine ethnographic and epidemiological approaches to explore the intersection of sexual politics/practices/identities with cultural conceptions of risk. She is involved in two major projects:
- An intensive study of the life stories of 65 women drug injectors to help clarify the sociocultural basis for the ethnic differences in the rates of HIV infection. This manuscript will examine how an understanding of the women's perceptions of their lives can contribute to more effictive disease-preventition and risk-reduction strategies.
- Collaborative anaylsis of seroepidemiological survey data-collected from over 600 injection drug users in San Francisco-to determine ethnic/gender differences in risk and conceptions of risk and their implications for culturally appropriate interventions.
- A primary emphasis of her work is the use of Anthropological theory and methods in the formulation and evaluation of policy.
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| Education History | |
B.A., M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Cornell University |
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