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Seth M. Holmes

Seth M. Holmes (born 1975) is Chancellor's Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. He also serves as founder and co-chair (with Charles L. Briggs) of the [http://bcsm.berkeley.edu/ Berkeley Center for Social Medicine], co-director (with Ian Whitmarsh) of the MD/Ph.D. Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UC Berkeley and UCSF. A cultural anthropologist and physician, Holmes focuses on social inequalities, immigration, ethnic hierarchies, health and health care. His work has provided a particularly strong ethnographic critique of behaviorism in medicine.

Holmes has also been a fellow in the Division of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester (2004), an intern and resident in the Physician Scientist Pathway in the Department of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (2007–2009), a tutor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (2009), a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at Columbia University (2009 to 2011), and a fellow in the International Research Center Work and the Lifecourse in Global Historical Perspective at Humboldt University in Berlin (2015–2016). He received the 2015 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology for “broadening the impact of anthropology”. Provided by Wikipedia