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Margaret Lock

Margaret Lock

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
53
Citations
16792
World Ranking
2253
National Ranking
128

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1994 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Margaret Lock is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science as well as education. The main topics addressed in their work include religious and theological studies and higher education and sustainability.

Lock has contributed to scholarly literature through papers such as:

  • Prácticas preprofesionales y calidad de formación en estudiantes de Ingeniería de Minas de la Universidad Nacional Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo (2024, APORTE SANTIAGUINO)
  • Tiempos improductivos en el proceso de minado de la Compañía Minera "AC Agregados S.A." Unidad Arequipa M (2025, APORTE SANTIAGUINO)

Their work has been published predominantly in the venue APORTE SANTIAGUINO, accounting for at least two publications. There are no frequent coauthors listed in the available data.

Margaret Lock's recognition includes honors such as:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, awarded in 1994, cited by the Academy of Social Sciences
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, awarded in 2015

Best Publications

  • The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Margaret M. Lock

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    Margaret Lock;Vinh-Kim Nguyen

  • Cultivating the Body: Anthropology and Epistemologies of Bodily Practice and Knowledge

    Margaret Lock

  • Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

    Margaret M. Lock

  • Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America

    Margaret M. Lock

  • Remaking a World - Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

    Sima Aprahamian;Arthur Kleinman;Margaret Lock;Mamphela Ramphele

  • Beyond the body proper : reading the anthropology of material life

    Margaret M. Lock;Judith Farquhar

  • The case for allowing kidney sales

    J Radcliffe-Richards;AS Daar;RD Guttmann;R Hoffenberg

  • Culture and symptom reporting at menopause

    Melissa K. Melby;Margaret Lock;Patricia Kaufert

  • Menopause, local biologies, and cultures of aging

    Margaret Lock;Patricia Kaufert

  • Pragmatic Women and Body Politics

    Margaret M. Lock;Patricia A. Kaufert

  • Remaking life & death : toward an anthropology of the biosciences

    Sarah Franklin;Margaret M. Lock

  • Knowledge, Power, and Practice : the Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life

    Shirley Lindenbaum;Margaret M. Lock

  • The tempering of medical anthropology: troubling natural categories

    Margaret Lock

  • Comprehending the Body in the Era of the Epigenome

    Margaret Lock

  • Ambiguities of aging: Japanese experience and perceptions of menopause.

    Margaret Lock

  • 2 The evolution of menopausal symptoms

    Nancy E. Avis;Patricia A. Kaufert;Margaret Lock;Sonja M. McKinlay

  • Living and working with the new medical technologies : intersections of inquiry

    Margaret M. Lock;Allan Young;Alberto Cambrosio

  • Contested meanings of the menopause.

    Margaret Lock

  • MENOPAUSE : LESSONS FROM ANTHROPOLOGY

    Margaret Lock

  • East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan

    James R. Bartholomew;Margaret M. Lock

Frequent Co-Authors

Veena Das
Veena Das Johns Hopkins University
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Nancy Scheper-Hughes University of California, Berkeley
Paul Atkinson
Paul Atkinson Cardiff University
Mark Nichter
Mark Nichter University of Arizona
Peter J. Whitehouse
Peter J. Whitehouse Case Western Reserve University
Allan H. Young
Allan H. Young King's College London
Martin J. Blaser
Martin J. Blaser Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Nancy E. Avis
Nancy E. Avis Wake Forest University
J. Scott Roberts
J. Scott Roberts University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John Frank
John Frank University of Edinburgh

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