Anna Harris

Anna Harris first worked as a doctor in Australia and the UK before learning anthropology and turning her ethnographic gaze back to the medical profession. Missing the hands-on element of clinical practice in academia, her work endeavors to find creative and practically engaging methods for studying questions of embodiment, learning, materiality and infrastructures of medical practice. She currently works as an Associate Professor of the Social Studies of Medicine at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands. She works with a great team of anthropologists and historians on the European Research Council funded project Making Clinical Sense. You can find more about that project at: www.makingclinicalsense.com. In her spare time she experiments with cooking, embroidery and knitting and writes about the fascinating world of pneumatic tube systems (www.pneumaticpost.blogspot.com).