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Mara Buchbinder, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair Department of Social Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Mara Buchbinder, Ph.D. (she/hers) is Professor and Vice Chair of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at UNC – Chapel Hill, as well as core faculty in the UNC Center for Bioethics. Dr. Buchbinder is a medical anthropologist with broad interests in cultures of health, illness, and medicine in the United States. Her recent work focuses on how patients, families, and healthcare providers navigate social and ethical challenges resulting from changes in medical technology, law, and health policy. Dr. Buchbinder is the author of Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America (2021, University of California Press), Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening (with Stefan Timmermans, 2013, University of Chicago Press), and All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain (2015, University of California Press), as well as the editor of Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice: Bridging Perspectives for New Conversations (with Michele Rivkin-Fish and Rebecca Walker, 2016, UNC Press), and co-editor of the two-volume series The Social Medicine Reader, 3rd edition, (2019, Duke University Press). In 2015, Dr. Buchbinder was selected for a Greenwall Faculty Scholars Award (2015-2018). In 2017, she received a Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at UNC – Chapel Hill. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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