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| Norman Fineman |
Email: norman.fineman@ucsf.edu
Telephone: (415) 514-2534
Norman Fineman, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist in the UCSF Institute for Health & Aging. Dr. Fineman provides research, writing, and editorial support for grants and publications to IHA faculty and staff members.
Dr. Fineman also serves as Director of the IHA Solomon F. Davis Resource Center http://sbs.ucsf.edu/iha/sdvsrctr.htm (website).
In addition, he is currently working with Carroll Estes, Ph.D. and Sheryl Goldberg, Ph.D. on a California Endowment-funded project to organize a convening and coordinate and edit policy papers on the lack of access to health care and financial resources among vulnerable and poor elderly California women.
Dr. Fineman is also working with Regina Otero-Sabogal, Ph.D. on the Wise Woman Project. The goal of this project is to seek to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease through timely, high quality screening, education, and intervention for elevated cholesterol and high blood pressure in Latina women, ages 40-64.
Dr. Fineman's research interests include American medical practice, the doctor/patient relationship, social construction of difficult patients, illness experience, social studies of aging, gay and lesbian families, and qualitative methods.
Prior to coming to IHA, he served for four years as managing editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and for two years as interim director of the UCSF/Mount Zion Violence Prevention Project.
2004. “Economic Implications of Increased Longevity in the United States,” Annual Review of Public Health, volume 25, 2004.
1994. "Health Care Providers' Subjective Understandings of Old Age: Implications for Threatened Adult Status in Late Life." Journal of Aging Studies, 8(3): 255-270.
1991. "The Social Construction of Noncompliance: A Study of Health Care and Social Service Providers in Everyday Practice." Sociology of Health and Illness, 13(3):354-374.
1991. "The Social Construction of Noncompliance: Implications for Cross Cultural Geriatric Practice." Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology, 6(2):219-227.
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