Orkideh Behrouzan is a graduate student in HASTS. Before coming to MIT, she was a graduate student and a research scholar in the Department of Clinical Medicine at University of Oxford, UK , where she studied molecular genetics of Fibrodysplasia at The Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences. Prior to her work at Oxford, she graduated from Medical School of University of Tehran, Iran, and worked in Haematology, Oncology and BMT Research Centre (HORCBMT) towards her M.D. thesis: “HLA and Risk of Acute Graft Versus Host Disease in Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation from an HLA-Identical Sibling”. She was ranked 17th in the National Entrance Exam for universities at the age of seventeen, and 1st in the National Concours of Humanities, for studying Persian Literature, the same year.
As a freelance writer for various medical and literary journals, she has been a member of the editorial board of DARD socio-medical publications in Iran. A blogger, as well as an award-winning poet and writer, Orkideh is fluent in English and French (as well as her native Persian), and competent in Spanish and classic Arabic. In addition to her publications in the field of medicine and science, she has published articles in Persian and English on the Iranian Diaspora, Persian identity and bilingualism, cultural duality in Iran, mental health and women, discourses of modernity, as well as on the recent explosion of Persian weblogs and their role in promoting communication, democracy and freedom of speech. At MIT, she is studying medicine and biotechnology through an anthropological conceptual framework. Her current research focuses on institutionalization of medicine, particularly psychiatry (and psychoanalysis) vis-a-vis cultural, linguistic and historical contexts in Muslim countries such as Iran.
medical anthropology; history of medicine; Middle East and gender; stigma; medicalization; modernity and globalization of medicine; mental health; psychiatry; depression; biological sciences
http://perston.blogspot.com (English blog)
http://koochii.blogspot.com (Persian
blog)
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