Paul started following the work of Mara Buchbinder, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Social Medicine.
Paul started following the work of Suzanne Shale, University of Oxford, Primary Health Care.
Paul started following the work of Elana Buch, University of California, Los Angeles, Anthropology.
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Faculty Member, Anthropology
About
I am a broadly trained medical anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research in the US (community psychiatry, human population genetics, and chronic pain centers) and internationally (Haiti and the French West Indies). For two decades I have studied the ethical dimensions of health care in their full cultural context. My work explores how local moral orders are produced and disrupted in the face-to-face encounters of ordinary clinical work.
My current writing concerns "everyday ethics" among psychiatrists and social workers in an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program. ACT is a popular model of out-patient medico-social services for people with persistent, severe mental illness. Based on two years fieldwork, this project explores the zones of enduring ethical vulnerability in ACT, and it advances the dialogue between ethnography and bioethics.
I am an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Adjunct Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Core Scientist in qualitative methods at the Center for AIDS Intervention Research (Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin). I also participate in the Milwaukee Mental Health Task Force.
Contact Information
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| Address: | Dept of Anthropology |
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414-229-4734 |
