Alexander Edmonds
Professor
Social and Medical Anthropology
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Biography
Alexander Edmonds is an anthropologist specialising in the sociocultural dimensions of health, illness and medicine. His research has investigated plastic surgery; mental health; military veterans; psychiatric and psychological practice; and health in international development. Regionally, he's worked in Brazil, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Research Interest
His current work is a multi-country, anthropological study of combat veterans' reintegration and mental health. It also examines current military mental health care and clinical reasoning about war syndromes. Funded by a five-year “Starting Grant” from the European Research Council, it is being conducted in the UK, US, the Netherlands and Israel.
Publications
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Edmonds, A. 2013. Can Medicine be Aesthetic? Disentangling Beauty and Health in Elective Surgeries. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 27(2):233-52.
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Edmonds, A. 2014. Surgery-for-Life: Aging, Sexual Fitness and Self-Management in Brazil. Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 2014: 34 (4)
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Edmonds, A and E. Sanabria. 2014. Medical Borderlands: Engineering the Body with Plastic Surgery and Hormonal Therapies in Brazil. Anthropology & Medicine. 21(2):202-16.
