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Saiba Varma

Associate Professor of the Psychological/Medical Anthropology subfield and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies

University of California, San Diego

Affiliations

Social Sciences

Anthropology

Saiba Varma is currently serving as an Anthropology Associate Professor of the Psychological/Medical Anthropology subfield and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies at University of California, San Diego.

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Saiba Varma

University of California, San Diego

Associate Professor of the Psychological/Medical Anthropology subfield and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies

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anthropology medicine psychiatry mental health cultural anthropology medical anthropology migration studies critical care ethnography conflict regional studies anthropological theory clinical psychiatry security studies middle eastern studies international security strategic studies middle east policy world psychiatry counseling psychology professional counselor narrative intercultural studies american studies social anthropology behavioral research psychiatric care asian studies civil-military relations military sociology peacekeeping military culture military context community mental health clinical practice indigenous peoples cultural context folklore tradition american identity ethnohistory cross-cultural perspectives covid-19 pandemic sociological research clinical medicine thanatology cultural geography decoloniality philosophy of medicine behavioral insights conflict studies patchwork ethnography occupied clinic global mental health recovery narratives potential harms service user participation indian-administered kashmir modernizing psychiatry clinical iatrogenesis hospital hauntings spectral ties trial populations south asia unfinished colonial project affective governance dark side culture ethnomethodology sociocultural anthropology psychological anthropology ethnocentrism cognitive anthropology

Notable Scholarly Works

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Troubling Complicities. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2023)

Kali RubaiiSaiba Varma

social sciencesanthropologydiscourse analysispolitical science

INTRODUCTION: Medicine’s Shadowside: Revisiting Clinical Iatrogenesis. Anthropology and Medicine (2021)

Emma VarleySaiba Varma

anthropologyclinical medicineclinical iatrogenesismedical anthropologymedicinehealth sciences

The Doctor and Mrs. Asarahpintonew York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 242 Pp. $28.00 (Paper). Isbn: 978‐0823286669.. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (2021)

Saiba Varma

history of sciencebehavioral sciencessocial sciencesbehavioral insightsbehavioral researchpsychology

Why Calls to Diversify Trial Populations Fall Short. Med (2021)

Saiba VarmaKalindi VoraKeolu FoxSuze BerkhoutTarik Benmarhnia

diversification (marketing strategy)clinical trialsmedicinetrial populations

Affective Governance, Disaster, and the Unfinished Colonial Project. Routledge eBooks (2020)

Saiba Varma

colonialismhistorydisastersunfinished colonial projectgovernanceaffective governancedecoloniality

A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (2020)

Chika WatanabeSaiba VarmaGökçe Günel

social sciencesethnographypatchwork ethnography

Anatomy of a Siege. Anthropology & Humanism (2020)

Saiba Varma

anthropological theoryanthropologycultural anthropologyhumanities

A Pandemic is Not a War: Covid‐19 Urgent Anthropological Reflections. Social Anthropology (2020)

Saiba Varma

anthropologysociocultural anthropologycovid-19 pandemicglobal healthsociological researchcultural anthropologysocial anthropologysociologycovid-19anthropological theory

The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir. (2020)

Saiba Varma

strategic studiescivil-military relationsmilitary sociologypeacekeepingsecurity studiesmiddle east policymiddle eastern studiesinternational securityconflictregional studiesmigration studiesmilitary culturemilitary contextpolitical scienceinternational relationseast asian studiescritical careoccupied clinic

Attending to the Dark Side of Medicine. Anthropology News (2019)

Emma VarleySaiba Varma

anthropologyphilosophy of medicinemedical anthropologydark sidemedicinegenetics

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Saiba Varma

Associate Professor of the Psychological/Medical Anthropology subfield and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies

University of California, San Diego

Affiliations

Social Sciences

Anthropology

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Saiba Varma

University of California, San Diego

Associate Professor of the Psychological/Medical Anthropology subfield and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Troubling Complicities. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2023)

Kali RubaiiSaiba Varma

social sciencesanthropologydiscourse analysispolitical science

INTRODUCTION: Medicine’s Shadowside: Revisiting Clinical Iatrogenesis. Anthropology and Medicine (2021)

Emma VarleySaiba Varma

anthropologyclinical medicineclinical iatrogenesismedical anthropologymedicinehealth sciences

The Doctor and Mrs. Asarahpintonew York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 242 Pp. $28.00 (Paper). Isbn: 978‐0823286669.. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (2021)

Saiba Varma

history of sciencebehavioral sciencessocial sciencesbehavioral insightsbehavioral researchpsychology

Why Calls to Diversify Trial Populations Fall Short. Med (2021)

Saiba VarmaKalindi VoraKeolu FoxSuze BerkhoutTarik Benmarhnia

diversification (marketing strategy)clinical trialsmedicinetrial populations

Affective Governance, Disaster, and the Unfinished Colonial Project. Routledge eBooks (2020)

Saiba Varma

colonialismhistorydisastersunfinished colonial projectgovernanceaffective governancedecoloniality

A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (2020)

Chika WatanabeSaiba VarmaGökçe Günel

social sciencesethnographypatchwork ethnography

Anatomy of a Siege. Anthropology & Humanism (2020)

Saiba Varma

anthropological theoryanthropologycultural anthropologyhumanities

A Pandemic is Not a War: Covid‐19 Urgent Anthropological Reflections. Social Anthropology (2020)

Saiba Varma

anthropologysociocultural anthropologycovid-19 pandemicglobal healthsociological researchcultural anthropologysocial anthropologysociologycovid-19anthropological theory

The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir. (2020)

Saiba Varma

Attending to the Dark Side of Medicine. Anthropology News (2019)

Emma VarleySaiba Varma

anthropologyphilosophy of medicinemedical anthropologydark sidemedicinegenetics

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