Carole H. Browner
Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Anthropology
Center for Culture and Health
1001 Westwood Blvd
NPI, 1759194
Phone: (310) 794-6299
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Webpages:
www.anthro.ucla.edu/faculty/browner
www.npi.ucla.edu/center/culture
http://www.mrrc.npi.ucla.edu/
Research:
My research has focused on how power, as it is structured and enacted in everyday activities, shapes human reproductive behavior. I have done field research in urban Colombia, rural Mexico, and with diverse ethnic groups in the U. S. In Cali, Colombia I investigated the circumstances that led pregnant women with unintended conceptions to seek illegal abortion. In rural Mexico, I sought to understand how local political relations shape gender-based reproductive strategies. Since 1989, I have worked mainly in the U. S. on issues surrounding the medicalization of pregnancy and prenatal care, and particularly how pregnant women and their male partners make decisions about the use of fetal diagnosis.
Selected Publications:
Browner, C. H. (In press). "'Gender Equity in Reproductive Programs and Policies Unintentionally Reinforce Male Authority?" In, Marcia Inhorn, ed. Reproductive Disruptions, Childlessness, Adoption, and Other Reproductive Complexities. Oxford: Berghahn.
Browner, C. H. (2007). What Does the Concept of "Genetic Responsibility" Add to Understanding Carework? The Case of Individuals with Neurodegenerative Disorders (J. Musto & CHB). Paper presented in panel on Ethic of Care. The Fifth Carework Conference, "Is a Caring Society Possible? Mobilizing for Change." CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York.
Browner, C. H. and Sargent, C. F. (2007). "Engendering Medical Anthropology." In, Serge Genest and Francine Saillant, eds. Medical Anthropology: Regional Perspectives and Shared Concerns, pp. 233-51. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Ltd.
Browner, C. H. (2006). Does Gender "Equity" in Genetic Screening Unintentionally Reinforce Male Authority? Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Ethics in the New Millennium. SMA Plenary Session, M. Inhorn, organizer. Joint Meetings of the Societies for Applied and Medical Anthropology, Vancouver, B. C.
Browner, C. H. and Preloran, H. M. (2006). "Entering the Field: Recruiting Latinos for Ethnographic Work." In, Dick Hobbs and Richard Wright, ed. Handbook of Fieldwork, pp. 93-106.London: Sage.
Markens, S., Browner, C. H. and Preloran, H. M. (2003). "I'm Not the One They're Sticking the Needle Into": Latino Couples, Fetal Diagnosis, and the Discourse of Reproductive Rights. Gender & Society 17(3):462-81.
Browner, C. H. (2000). Situating Women's Reproductive Activities. American Anthropologist 102( 4):773-88.
Selected Courses:
The Politics of Reproduction (Anthropology M269P/Psychiatry M280)
