Race and Dermatology

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES

SPEAKER: Yesmar Oyarzun, Brandeis University

Yesmar Oyarzun is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist whose research focuses on how embodied social difference interacts with medical, scientific, and lay perception of the human body, and how this in turn changes how different actors interact with different people. Her research projects have focused on the relationship between race and dermatology in the United States, and particularly on how cultural ideas about skin and skin color shape dermatological knowledge and practice.