Christopher T. Dole

Biography

Christopher T. Dole is working as a Associate Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College, USA. Chris Dole is a medical anthropologist whose research and writing explores the intersection of suffering, healing, and politics. His particular research interests engage a range of conceptual and empirical problems that draw on his longstanding interest in issues surrounding religious and psychiatric forms of therapeutic care, subjectivity and the intimacies of political economy, the production and distribution of vulnerabilities, and ethnographic and literary accounts of human flourishing.

Research Interest

Intersection of suffering, healing, and politics, Medical Anthropology