SoS 152 - Bringing Anthropology to Public Health with Dr. Stephanie McClure

In today's episode Chris and Cara talk to Dr. Stephanie McClure, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. Dr. McClure talks about the importance and the benefits of bringing anthropology to public health as evidenced by her own work leading and organizing six Covid-19 vaccination clinics across the country. Her and Cara also discuss their discontent with current policies restricting female athletes on the basis of their testosterone levels. Find Dr. McClure's paper "On Integrity and the Risk of Generational Loss: Narratives of Preservation and Threat Underlie Policies Restricting Natural Testosterone in Women Athletes" at On Integrity and the Risk of Generational Loss: Narratives of Preservation and Threat Underlie Policies Restricting Natural Testosterone in Women Athletes And her AJHB on collaborating with public health "Practices of disciplinary symbiosis: (Re)blending theory and method, anthropology and public health" at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23683?casa_token=ZApztSmCGi0AAAAA%3As56_tsA7u1WdJt0x4rLAOPScI9T3wuHU4TByXhg9HQj6gwv5inG1QpbdniBKpBHL5dTmDK9J7xOk Learn more about CoomuniVax at https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/Center-projects/communivax/local-teams.html Contact Dr. McClure at [email protected] Participate in and celebrate #AnthroDay: www.americananthro.org/anthroday Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:[email protected], Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: [email protected], Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra