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Sharon Kaufman

Sharon Kaufman
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Sharon Kaufman

Sharon R. Kaufman is professor of medical anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and two previous books: The Ageless Self: Sources of Meaning in Late Life (a New York Times Book Review Notable Book) and The Healer's Tale: Transforming Medicine and Culture. She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The Journal Hires Dentists To Do Heart Surgery
Media Matters for America, January 30, 2012
...By "'Contrary' Expertise." From a May 2009 article in PLoS Biology : Until the summer of 2005, Sharon Kaufman had never paid much attention to the shifting theories blaming vaccines for a surge in reported cases of autism. Kaufman, a medical...
A facade of autonomy in end-of-life care?
Galveston County Daily News, November 23, 2011
...by fear, doubt or guilt and hesitate to make such a profound decision without physician guidance. Medical anthropologist Sharon Kaufman spent time in hospitals watching discussions among patients, staff and physicians, and described a couple of...
The right to remain silent
Almanac Online, November 8, 2011
...but can only be generated once the police match a name to the face in the photo. Sgt. Sharon Kaufman, who currently runs the city's red-light program, said the police go to great lengths to get that name. False threats A business owner with a fleet of...