Katherine A. Mason

Katherine A. Mason is Vartan Gregorian Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. Her research addresses issues in medical anthropology, population health, bioethics, China studies, reproductive health, mental health, and global health. Her first book, Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic, based on fieldwork she conducted in southeastern China on the professionalization and ethics of public health in China following the 2003 SARS epidemic, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016 and won the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize in 2019.

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Missing the Revolution with Covid-19: On Hindsight and Ethnographic Expertise

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Missing the Revolution with Covid-19: On Hindsight and Ethnographic Expertise

Covid-19 was a revolution that I should have seen coming. In his classic Cultural Anthropology article, “Missing the Revolution,” Orin Starn (1991) argues that... More