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Carole H. Browner
University of California, Los Angeles
Visiting Scholar
1998 to 1999
Carole H. Browner, professor-in-residence in the departments of psychiatry and anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, is preparing a monograph on the social implications of fetal diagnostic technologies. Drawing on a decade of interviews and clinical observations, Browner will focus on the relative underusage of pre-natal procedures by recent immigrant and ethnic minority women. She will explore how cultural attitudes, the input of male partners, and the clinical counseling process itself affect these women's decisions to undergo testing.
Robert Klitzman
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
1999 to 2000
Robert Klitzman, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, will draw on in-depth interviews to examine issues of trust raised by the HIV epidemic. How do people trust a sexual partner who tells them they are not a carrier of the virus? Given the stigma associated with the disease, how do people with HIV decide whom to trust with knowledge of their illness? How are these decisions affected by social factors, such as ethnicity, gender, and social class?