Faculty » Juliet McMullin
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Associate Professor Office: 1344 Watkins Hall |
Dr. McMullin specializes in Cultural and Medical Anthropology. The central focus of her work has been to understand the social organization and practice of medical knowledge as it is created and constrained within a political economy of health. Her research, far from naturalizing health as solely a biological process, examines the contexts in which political struggles over health embody inequality, resistance and identity. These issues are explored through the topics of cancer, cultural meanings of health, and more recently, pediatric injury. The knowledge and practices associated with these topics reveal important processes that elaborate the links between inequality, access to healthy environments, and cultural constructions of risk and identity. The issue of cultural meanings of health and counter-hegemonic discourses are evident in her work with Native Hawaiians and her book manuscript "Remembering Ancestors." Issues of cancer inequalities, particularly those inequities that affect Latinas in California are elaborated in her forthcoming School of Advanced Research edited volume "Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Inequality and Advocacy." Most recently Dr. McMullin was awarded a four year grant from the National Institutes of Health to bring issues of inequality and risk to bear on pediatric injury prevention.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
McMullin JM, Chavez LR, DeAlba I, Hubbell FA. Influence and beliefs about cervical cancer etiology on pap smear use among Latina immigrants. Ethnicity and Health. 2005 1:3-18
McMullin JM, The Call to Life: Revitalizing a Healthy Hawaiian Identity. Social Science and Medicine. 2005; 61:809-820
De Alba, I, FA Hubbell, JM McMullin, J Sweningson, R Saitz. Impact of US Citizenship Status on Cancer Screening Among Immigrant Women. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2005; 20:290-296
Chavez LR, Hubbell FA, McMullin JM, Martinez RG, Mishra SI. Structure and Meaning in Models of Breast and Cervical Cancer Risk Factors: A Comparison of Perceptions Among Latinas, Anglo Women and Physicians. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1995; 9:40-74.
McMullin JM, Chavez LR, Hubbell FA. Knowledge, Power and Experience: Variation in Physicians Perceptions of Breast Cancer Risk Factors. Medical Anthropology 1996; 16:295-317.
Chavez LR, McMullinJM, Mishra SI, Hubbell FA. Beliefs Matter: Cultural Beliefs and the Use of Cervical Cancer Screening Tests. American Anthropologist 2001; 103:1-16.
Smith CS, M Morris, W. Hill, C Francovich, J McMullin, L Chavez, C. Rhoads. Cultural Consensus Analysis as a Tool for Clinic Improvement. Journal of General and Internal Medicine 2004; 19:514-518.