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Social Sciences and Humanities
Canada
2023

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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 49 Citations 14,270 159 World Ranking 1712 National Ranking 93

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award

2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1994 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Social science

Margaret Lock mostly deals with Menopause, Gerontology, Politics, Medical anthropology and Gender studies. Her work in Gerontology covers topics such as Cross-cultural studies which are related to areas like MEDLINE and Ethnic group. The various areas that Margaret Lock examines in her Politics study include Epistemology, Subjectivity, Everyday life and Medicalization.

Social science and Anthropology are the main areas of her Medical anthropology studies. The Social science study combines topics in areas such as Deconstruction and Subject. Her research in Gender studies intersects with topics in Mythology, State and Ethnography.

Her most cited work include:

  • The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology (1539 citations)
  • Cultivating the Body: Anthropology and Epistemologies of Bodily Practice and Knowledge (428 citations)
  • Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America (422 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Her primary areas of study are Politics, Gender studies, Anthropology, Environmental ethics and Menopause. Margaret Lock interconnects Epistemology, Social science and Commodification in the investigation of issues within Politics. Margaret Lock studies Social science, focusing on Medical anthropology in particular.

Margaret Lock has researched Commodification in several fields, including Diversity and Biopower. Her Gender studies study incorporates themes from Mythology, Medicalization, Identity and Ethnography. Her study in Menopause is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Menstruation, Gerontology and Cross-cultural studies.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Politics (13.50%)
  • Gender studies (12.88%)
  • Anthropology (11.66%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2011-2021)?

  • Environmental ethics (9.20%)
  • Anthropology (11.66%)
  • Epistemology (5.52%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Margaret Lock spends much of her time researching Environmental ethics, Anthropology, Epistemology, Gender studies and Cognitive science. Many of her research projects under Environmental ethics are closely connected to Situated with Situated, tying the diverse disciplines of science together. Her Anthropology research integrates issues from Reductionism and Politics.

Her work in Gender studies is not limited to one particular discipline; it also encompasses Mythology. Her Cognitive science research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Embodied cognition, Monster, Developmental psychology, Psychoanalysis and Alzheimer's disease. Her Globe research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Sociology of health and illness, Commodification, Medical anthropology and Biomedicine.

Between 2011 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine (358 citations)
  • Comprehending the Body in the Era of the Epigenome (91 citations)
  • The Epigenome and Nature/Nurture Reunification: A Challenge for Anthropology (85 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Social science

Her primary areas of investigation include Anthropology, Environmental ethics, Nature versus nurture, Epigenome and Situated. Her Anthropology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Commodification, Cognitive science and Politics. Her work carried out in the field of Politics brings together such families of science as Biomedicine, Medical anthropology, Globe and Sociology of health and illness.

Her specific area of interest is Environmental ethics, where she studies Anthropocene. Her studies deal with areas such as Epigenetics, Biosocial theory, Reductionism and Historical trauma as well as Nature versus nurture. Her Reductionism research incorporates elements of Field and Set.

This overview was generated by a machine learning system which analysed the scientist’s body of work. If you have any feedback, you can contact us here.

Best Publications

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

Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Margaret M. Lock.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1987)

2472 Citations

An Anthropology of Biomedicine

Margaret Lock;Vinh-Kim Nguyen.
(2018)

1236 Citations

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

Margaret Lock.
Annual Review of Anthropology (1993)

662 Citations

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

Margaret M. Lock.
(1994)

656 Citations

Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

Margaret M. Lock.
(2001)

616 Citations

Remaking a World - Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

Sima Aprahamian;Arthur Kleinman;Margaret Lock;Mamphela Ramphele.
(2002)

553 Citations

The case for allowing kidney sales

J Radcliffe-Richards;AS Daar;RD Guttmann;R Hoffenberg.
The Lancet (1998)

386 Citations

Pragmatic Women and Body Politics

Margaret M. Lock;Patricia A. Kaufert.
(1998)

325 Citations

Beyond the body proper : reading the anthropology of material life

Margaret M. Lock;Judith Farquhar.
Published in <b>2007</b> in Durham NC) by Duke University Press (2007)

318 Citations

Remaking life & death : toward an anthropology of the biosciences

Sarah Franklin;Margaret M. Lock.
(2003)

313 Citations

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