Department of Anthropology

       Washington State University

       P.O. Box 644910

       Pullman, WA 99164-4910 USA

       Office: College Hall 363

       Phone: 509-335-5405

       Email: mquinlan@wsu.edu

I’m a sociocultural medical anthropologist concerned with the ways culture affects health and medical care. My areas of concentration are in ethnomedicine, ethnobotany, health behavior in families, psychological anthropology, maternal and child health, South America and the Caribbean. Since 1993 I have worked in a rural village in the Commonwealth of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), where I have been involved with numerous aspects of ethnobotanical and medical anthropological research. Right now I am working on projects dealing with women’s health, alcohol use and medicinal plant use in Dominica. My applied research in the US currently examines parental ethnicity and acceptability of human milk banks (which, like blood banks, oversee collection, screening, processing, and distribution of breastmilk from donors to infants) and related attitudes among neonatologists.  

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