Stanford Humanities Center
I currently practice as a doctor and a medical anthropologist in India. I completed my MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India. My experience as a medical practitioner strengthened my conviction that there was much that contemporary medical pedagogy did not teach its students about health, care, and healing. After about two years of medical practice in Mangalore, I spent the next few years as a student of the humanities. I obtained a Master's in Liberal Studies from Ashoka University, Sonipat, India, where I studied the relationship between the linguistic and ethical dimensions of medical eponyms named after perpetrators of the Holocaust. At Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, I completed an MA in Philosophy. My final project at Simon Fraser developed a framework to recognise oppression experienced by patients as they attempted to partake in knowledge production during their encounters with biomedical systems. I'm currently undertaking a project that studies the personality and personality disorders in South India. I am also interested in the study of clinical practice in South India.
Current Projects
- Personality and Personality Disorders: A Break from the Past
- Notes on friendship from a ‘Queer-friendly doctor’ in India
- Why pay attention to spaces without ‘story forms’ in healthcare facilities?
Field of Interest
Medical Anthropology
Psychiatric & Psychological Anthropology
Postcolonial Subjectivity vis-a-vis Psychiatric Practice
Discourses of Belonging
Philosophy of Science
Bioethics
Care
India
Contact: aaronmas@stanford.edu
Department page: https://anthropology.stanford.edu/people/aaron-mascarenhas
