Sharon R. Kaufman

Sharon Kaufman, PhD, is Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Her work explores topics at the intersection of medical knowledge and society’s expectations for health. Her research has examined the changing culture and structure of US medicine; health care delivery at the end-of-life; medical and cultural practices surrounding dying and death; and the relationship of biotechnologies to ethics, governance, and medical practice. She is the author of ...And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life and Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives and Where to Draw the Line.

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