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Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 38 Citations 16,326 126 World Ranking 3116 National Ranking 1599

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Awards & Achievements

1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Law
  • Politics
  • Anthropology

Her primary areas of study are Politics, Critical medical anthropology, Gender studies, Medical anthropology and Surgery. Her Politics research integrates issues from Orientalism, Criminology, The Holocaust and Relativism. As a part of the same scientific study, Nancy Scheper-Hughes usually deals with the Criminology, concentrating on Covert and frequently concerns with Human rights and Ethnography.

Her Critical medical anthropology research incorporates themes from Epistemology and Reification. Her study on Deconstruction and Subject is often connected to Viewpoints and Body awareness as part of broader study in Epistemology. The various areas that Nancy Scheper-Hughes examines in her Gender studies study include Malaise, Altruism, Fear of intimacy, Donation and Transplantation.

Her most cited work include:

  • The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology (1539 citations)
  • Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (1475 citations)
  • The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology (610 citations)

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

Gender studies, Anthropology, Politics, Criminology and Psychiatry are her primary areas of study. Her work carried out in the field of Gender studies brings together such families of science as Remorse, Medical anthropology and Psychoanalysis. Her Anthropology study combines topics in areas such as Militant and Organ Trafficking.

She frequently studies issues relating to Subject and Politics. Her Criminology research includes elements of Economic Justice and Neglect. Nancy Scheper-Hughes has included themes like Developmental psychology, Democracy, Public health and Social control in her Psychiatry study.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Gender studies (18.40%)
  • Anthropology (12.00%)
  • Politics (11.20%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2014-2020)?

  • Gender studies (18.40%)
  • Law (8.00%)
  • Democracy (4.80%)

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

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Gender studies, Law, Democracy, Media studies and Narrative. Her work deals with themes such as Anthropology, Applied anthropology, Criminology and Service, which intersect with Gender studies. She combines subjects such as Stigma and Hostility with her study of Law.

Her research in Democracy intersects with topics in Constitution, Repeal, Social movement and Irish. Her work in Narrative addresses issues such as Race, which are connected to fields such as Civil rights. She has researched Common knowledge in several fields, including Peacetime, Torture, Harm and Personality.

Between 2014 and 2020, her most popular works were:

  • Violence at the urban margins (42 citations)
  • Stimulating and Enhancing Partnerships Between Transplant Professionals and Law Enforcement: Recommendations (7 citations)
  • A Tale of Two Cities: The Exploration of the Trieste Public Psychiatry Model in San Francisco. (5 citations)

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

  • Law
  • Politics
  • Anthropology

Her primary areas of investigation include Democracy, Law, Rule of law, Health care and Social integration. Her study in the field of Term of office, Voting, Civil rights and Hatred also crosses realms of White. Nancy Scheper-Hughes combines subjects such as Social order, Liminality, Gender studies and Ethnography with her study of Rule of law.

Her Liminality study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Moral economy and Politics. Her Health care research includes themes of Institution, Psychiatry and Public health. Her Social integration study frequently links to other fields, such as Mental health.

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Best Publications

Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
(1992)

5031 Citations

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

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

2472 Citations

The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology

Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
Current Anthropology (1995)

937 Citations

Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Philippe Bourgois;Joseph Conrad;Michael Thomas Taussig.
(2003)

916 Citations

The Global Traffic in Human Organs1

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes.
Current Anthropology (2000)

770 Citations

Ethical Incentives — Not Payment — For Organ Donation

Francis L. Delmonico;Robert Arnold;Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Laura A. Siminoff.
The New England Journal of Medicine (2002)

305 Citations

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

Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
(1979)

295 Citations

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

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes.
Ethos (1985)

268 Citations

Parts unknown Undercover ethnography of the organs-trafficking underworld

Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
Ethnography (2004)

248 Citations

Three propositions for a critically applied medical anthropology.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
Social Science & Medicine (1990)

209 Citations

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