Ross Perfetti

Doctoral Student
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Bio

Ross Perfetti is an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. His dissertation research in cultural anthropology focuses on patient experiences of critical illness, ICU care, and medical recovery. Supported by the National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Newcombe Foundation, and Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, his work interrogates how patients grapple with new forms of biomedical survivorship and how classification of longer-term, biological and social harms of care shapes opportunities for accountability. Ross is an Associate Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Fellow at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

Education

2016. BA. University of Pennsylvania. Modern Middle Eastern Studies.

2017. MSc. Durham University. Medical Anthropology.

Research Interests

psychiatric anthropology, science and technology studies, sensory ethnography, history of science, phenomenology, feminist theory, consciousness, subjectivity

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