"Pioneer Doctors of Southern California", a panel from the mural The History of Medicine in California by Bernard Zakheim. This panel depicts Bridget "Biddy" Mason (1818-1891). Learn more about the Zakheim murals, their relationship to Biddy Mason, and efforts to ensure their preservation at the UCSF Parnassus Heights campus.
Medical Cultures Lab
Science, narrative, and the culture of medicine
MCL works to understand medical culture and advance health equity.
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June 03, 2025
Challenging Allergies: The Search for a Magic Bullet for Pediatric Food Allergies
Jill Fisher
February 25, 2025
Building Infrastructures for Healthcare Systems Change: Challenges and Opportunities of the Learning Health System Model
Alexandra Vinson
December 10, 2024
Reflections on interdisciplinary interventions and biosocial medical anthropology
Sahra Gibbon
September 19, 2024
How to Heal Terminal Cancer: An Ethnography of Medical Culture
May 28, 2024
Is Medicine Actually Secular? Palliative Care in Thailand and the US and their Entangled Physics and Metaphysics
Scott Stonington
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All of our work seeks to understand medical culture and advance health equity.