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Eric Avery, MD
Howard Brody, MD, PhD
Orkideh Behrouzan, MD, PhD
Ronald A Carson, PhD
Michele Carter, PhD
Mark Clark, PhD
Jerome Crowder, PhD
Jason Glenn, PhD
Jan C Heller, PhD
Laura D Hermer, JD, LLM
Rebecca Hester, MA, PhD
Anne Hudson Jones, PhD
Arlene Macdonald, PhD
Evelyn M (Bernadette) McKinney, JD, PhD
Robert Rose, MD
Cheryl Vaiani, PhD
Harold Y Vanderpool, PhD, ThM
William J Winslade, PhD, JD
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Ahmed E Ahmed, PhD
Lisa Cain, PhD
John Carrier, ThM, MA, PhD
Henry Epstein, MD
James LeDuc, PhD
B Andrew Lustig, PhD
Michael H Malloy, MD, MS
Alexandra (Lexi) Nolen, MPH, PhD
J Regino Perez-Polo, PhD
Kay Sandor, PhD, RN, LPC, AHN-BC
Victor S Sierpina, MD
John Sullivan, MA
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Rebecca Hester, M.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
M.A., University of California Santa Cruz
Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz
rjhester@utmb.edu
IMMIGRATION, HEALTH AND MEDICINE; HEALTH DISPARITIES AND CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURE, MEDICINE AND THE BODY; MEDICALIZATION AND BIOMEDICALIZATION; CRITICAL STUDIES OF HEALTH RISK, HEALTH SECURITY AND THE STATE; POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE BODY.