Emily Mendenhall
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Emily Mendenhall

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Emily Mendenhall is a medical anthropologist and Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She has published widely at the boundaries of anthropology, psychology, medicine, and public health. Dr. Mendenhall led a Series of articles on Syndemics in The Lancet in 2017, and has published several books, including Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV (2019), Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women (2012), and Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives (2015). In 2017, Dr. Mendenhall was awarded the George Foster Award for Practicing Medical Anthropology by the Society for Medical Anthropology. Her newest book, Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji, is a cultural and political commentary on how a small town in Iowa responded to the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    • By: Emily Mendenhall
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    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
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