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从2012年9月到2013年9月,笔者在美国加州大学旧金山分校健康与老年研究所访学,合作者是该所的医学人类学教授莎伦·考夫曼(Sharon Kaufman)。这一经历让笔者对考夫曼的研究有了较为全面的了解,尽管刚到研究所时,她也谦虚地说,“你不要只关注我的研究,我不是特殊人物”。1980年,考夫曼获得了加州大学旧金山分校和伯克利分校联合授予的医学人类学博士学位。此后,她一直在加州大学旧金山分校工作,并得到了国家卫生研究院(NIH)的持续资助,这在人类学家中并不多见。目前,她不仅是该校护理学院下属的健康与老年研究所、社会与行为科学系的教授,还是医学院下属的人类学、
From September 2012 to September 2013, I visited the Institute of Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco, and co-authored Sharon Kaufman, a professor of medical anthropology at the University. This experience let the author have a more comprehensive understanding of Kaufman’s research, although when she arrived at the institute, she said modestly, “Do not just focus on my research, I’m not a special person.” In 1980, Kaufman received a doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. Since then, she has been with the University of California, San Francisco, and has received continued funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is rare among anthropologists. Currently, she is not only a professor at the Institute of Health and Aging, a department of social and behavioral sciences affiliated with the School of Nursing, but also an anthropologist affiliated with the School of Medicine,