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At the recent American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Mara Buchbinder, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine was awarded the Polgar prize.


At the recent American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Mara Buchbinder, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine was awarded the Polgar prize.

The prize is awarded to a professional medical anthropologist for the best paper published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly during the last year’s volume. The paper is:Buchbinder, Mara. 2018. Choreographing Death: A Social Phenomenology of Medical Aid-in-Dying in the United States. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 32(4):481-497. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maq.12468