Emily Martin

Emily Martin is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, which won the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize of the Society for Medical Anthropology. In addition to her work on the anthropology of science and reproduction in the U.S., she has written about on the interplay between scientific and popular conceptions of the immune system. In Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in America from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS, she analyzes the manner in which the concept of “flexibility” in immune discourse has been involved in a transformation of contemporary notions of health and business practices. Her present work is on cultures of the mental and the constitution of selfhood in contemporary U.S. society.