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Personal details
Name Dr Helen Lambert
Job title Reader in Medical Anthropology
Department School of Social and Community Medicine University of Bristol
Personal web page http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk/staff/hlambert.htm
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Qualifications DPhil, MA, DPhil(Oxon)
Professional details
Membership of professional bodies Royal Anthropological Institute - Chair, Medical Committee
Association of Social Anthropologists of UK & Commonwealth
American Anthropological Association
Medical Anthropology Section
Keywords medical anthropology
India
traditional medicine
health-seeking behaviour
STD/HIV prevention
public understanding of medicine
risk perception
genetic screening
Areas of expertise I am a social anthropologist who has lived and done research in India as well as the U.K. I am interested in social and cultural aspects of health, health care and healing. I have done research into how ordinary people think about health, illness and medicine and on their choices of therapy (of all types, not just biomedical).
Languages (other than English)
Hindi spoken