Ron Loewe
Research Fellow & Associate Professor, SSRC, MSU
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago
Email: loewe@soc.msstate.edu
Phone: (662) 325-7523
Dr. Loewe is a member of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. Since arriving at MSU in 2000, he has helped develop a new Master’s Program in Applied Anthropology for the Department, and teaches graduate and upper division courses in applied anthropology, medical anthropology, Latin American ethnography and ethnographic methods. As a medical anthropologist working in the U.S. he is interested the narrative construction of illness, and the ways in which cultural and religious beliefs affect the practice of medicine. Hisethnographic research in Mexico focuses on tourism, social change and medical innovation. Prior to coming to MSU, Dr. Loewe was the Director of Faculty Development in Family Medicine at Cook County Hospital, and held faculty appointments at Rush Medical College and the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois. His work is published in Social Science and Medicine, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, The American Anthropologist, The American Ethnologist, Family Medicine, The Journal of Family Practice, and Literature and Medicine. A review article on illness narratives is scheduled to appear in the Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology this Winter. Dr. Loewe previously taught anthropology and sociology at the University of Illinois, DePaul University and Columbia College in Chicago.
March 6, 2011SSRC 2011 Annual Report
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