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".
As a freelance writer for medical and literary journals, she has been a member of the editorial board of DARD socio-medical publications in Iran. A blogger, poet and writer, Orkideh is fluent in English and French (as well as her native Persian), and competent in Spanish and classic Arabic. At MIT, she is studying medicine through an anthropological conceptual framework.
medical anthropology; history of medicine; psychiatry and mental health; the Middle East; medicalization; subjectivity
http://perston.blogspot.com (English blog)
http://koochii.blogspot.com (Persian
blog)
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