postdoctoral research fellow, University of Michigan
About Katherine
I am a medical anthropologist and science studies scholar who uses ethnographic methods to investigate how biomedical knowledge is produced in different settings--clinics, laboratories, and trials--and how the circulation of this knowledge is taken up by different groups of actors. My doctoral research followed the development of the drug MDMA--better known as Ecstasy--as a prescription pharmaceutical. My postdoctoral research is examining the use of pharmacogenomic testing in psychiatry.