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Nancy Scheper-Hughes publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nancy Scheper-Hughes sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 164 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nancy Scheper-Hughes sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Medicine and Social Sciences, with contributions across diverse subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology, Reproductive Medicine, and Transplantation.

Their work addresses multiple topics related to health and society. These include:

  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies
  • Reproductive Health and Contraception
  • Organ Donation and Transplantation
  • Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research
  • Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
  • Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

Nancy Scheper-Hughes has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Anthropology Today
  • Social Anthropology
  • Anthropologie et Sociétés

Recent publications by Nancy Scheper-Hughes include:

  • "Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment: abortion rights and democracy today" (2020), published in Social Anthropology
  • "Anthropologie médicale, stratégies d'analyse et postures éthiques face à la mort et la souffrance sociale" (2021), published in Anthropologie et Sociétés
  • "EPIDEMICS AND CONTAINMENT: Cuba and the HIV/AIDS epidemic" (2020), published in Anthropology Today
  • "PAUL RABINOW (1944-2021): A MEMOIR" (2021), published in Anthropology Today

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Elżbieta Drążkiewicz
  • Thomas Strong
  • Hugh Turpin
  • A. Jamie Saris
  • Joanna Mishtal

Nancy Scheper-Hughes received the award of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986.

Best Publications

  • Death without weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Margaret M. Lock

  • The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Philippe Bourgois;Joseph Conrad;Michael Thomas Taussig

  • The Global Traffic in Human Organs1

    Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

  • Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • Ethical Incentives — Not Payment — For Organ Donation

    Francis L. Delmonico;Robert Arnold;Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Laura A. Siminoff

  • Parts unknown Undercover ethnography of the organs-trafficking underworld

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking: Maternal Detachment and Infant Survival in a Brazilian Shantytown

    Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

  • Three propositions for a critically applied medical anthropology.

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • Violence in war and peace

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Philippe I. Bourgois

  • The tyranny of the gift: sacrificial violence in living donor transplants.

    N. Scheper‐Hughes

  • A Talent for Life: Reflections on Human Vulnerability and Resilience

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • Ire in Ireland

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • Small wars and invisible genocides.

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • Theft of Life: The Globalization of Organ Stealing Rumours

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • Speaking “Truth” to Illness1: Metaphors, Reification, and a Pedagogy for Patients

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Margaret M. Lock

  • Commodity Fetishism in Organs Trafficking

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • Violence at the urban margins

    Javier Auyero;Philippe I. Bourgois;Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • Bodies for Sale – Whole or in Parts:

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • Dangerous and Endangered Youth: Social Structures and Determinants of Violence

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

  • La muerte sin llanto: violencia y vida cotidiana en Brasil

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret Lock
Margaret Lock McGill University
Francis L. Delmonico
Francis L. Delmonico Harvard University
Philippe Bourgois
Philippe Bourgois University of California, Los Angeles
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu Collège de France
Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre Université Paris Cité
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt Keele University
Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer Harvard University
Loïc Wacquant
Loïc Wacquant University of California, Berkeley
Veena Das
Veena Das Johns Hopkins University

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