Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Dr. Katherine Hendy is 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. Dr. Hendy has a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in sociocultural anthropology and a M.A. from the University of Chicago in the social sciences. Her doctoral research ethnographically followed the development of the drug MDMA—better known as the recreational drug “ecstasy”—as a treatment—for posttraumatic stress disorder. As a postdoctoral trainee in the ELSI program, Dr. Hendy is building upon her expertise in the ethnography of drug use and studies of scientific practice to develop an ethnographic project on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the use of pharmacogenomics (PGx) in psychiatry. Dr. Hendy is developing an ethnographic study that would examine how patients and clinicians make decisions using an uncertain genomic test and how this genomic information intersects with larger discussions about the etiology of mental illness.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET