Carole Browner

Carole Browner
Professor in Residence, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science
browner@ucla.edu
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Browner's research interests lie principally at the intersection of gender, reproduction, and health. Since 1989, she has worked mainly in the U.S. on issues surrounding the medicalization of pregnancy and prenatal care, particularly the impact of genetic information on reproductive experience. Other research has concerned how Latino couples make decisions about condom use; the meanings associated with cervical cancer held by women and men living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border; and the use of reproductive health services by homeless women in Los Angeles. She teaches courses to graduate and undergraduate students in medical anthropology; the anthropology of the human body; the politics of reproduction; anthropological perspectives on genetics, genetic testing, and genetic knowledge; and research design and methods.