Dr. Marsha Bogar Quinlan
Ph.D., University of Missouri, Columbia
Assistant Professor
Cultural Anthropology
Research
Medical anthropology; medical ethnobotany; ethnomedicine; Caribbean, South America.
Courses
Introduction to Anthropology (ANTH 101); Medical Anthropology (ANTH 405); Sex, Evolution and Human Nature (ANTH 468)
Marsha Quinlan is a sociocultural medical anthropologist concerned with the ways culture affects health and medical care. She conducts research in a rural village in the Commonwealth of Dominica (Lesser Antilles). She is presently working on projects dealing with women’s health, alcohol use and medicinal plant use in Dominica. In the U.S., she is part of a research team examining parental ethnicity and acceptability of human milk banks (which, like blood banks, oversee collection, screening, processing, and distribution of breastmilk from donors to infants) and related attitudes among physicians. For more info visit http://www.wsu.edu/~mquinlan/.
Representative Publications:
Balancing the System: Humoral Medicine and Food in the Commonwealth of Dominica, in Eating and Healing: Exploration of Wild and Domesticated Plants and Animals as Food and Medicine, A. Pieroni and L. Price, Eds. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, expected release Sept. 6. 2005.
Considerations for Collecting Freelists in the Field: Examples from Ethnobotany, Marsha Quinlan, in Field Methods, Vol. 13, No. 3, August 2005 1-16, Sage Publications.
Local Resource Enhancement and Sex-biased Breastfeeding in a Caribbean Community, Robert J. Quinlan, Marsha B. Quinlan, and Mark V. Flinn, Current Anthropology, 46(3):471-480.
From the Bush: The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village. (2004) Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Marsha B. Quinlan.
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