Katherine A. Mason

Kate Mason
Lecturer, Health and Societies Program
Dept. of History and Sociology of Science
Ph.D. Harvard University
M.A. Harvard University
B.S. Yale University
Contact Information
Office Address: 
352 Cohen Hall
Telephone: 
215-898-7098
Email Address: 
masonka@sas.upenn.edu
Teaching Fields: 

medical anthropology, global health, bioethics, gender and health, social determinants of health

Research Interests: 

Medical anthropology, global health, public health, pandemics, professionalization, ethics, bureaucracies, gender, migration, urbanization, China

Selected Publications: 

Mason, Katherine A. 2013 "To Your Health!: Toasting, Intoxication, and Gendered Critique among Banqueting Women." The China Journal 69: 108-133.

Mason, Katherine A. 2012 Mobile Migrants, Mobile Germs: Migration, Contagion, and Boundary-Building in Shenzhen, China after SARS. Medical Anthropology 31(2): 113-131.

Mason, Katherine A. 2010 "Becoming Modern After SARS: Battling the H1N1 Pandemic and the Politics of Backwardness in China’s Pearl River Delta." Special Issue, “Epidemic Orders.” Behemoth – A Journal on Civilisation 2010(3): 8-35.

Zhao, Jin, Wen-De Cai, Lin Chen, Jin-Kou Zhao, Yong-Xia Gan, Yun-Yun Zi, Zheng-Rong Yang, Katherine A. Mason, Jin-Quan Cheng, Xiao-Rong Wang, and Ming-Liang He 2010. "A Comparison of HIV Infection and Related Risks Among Male Sex Workers in Different Venues in Shenzhen, China. AIDS and Behavior," E-published ahead of print August 14.

Kleinman, Arthur M., Barry R. Bloom, Anthony Saich, Katherine A. Mason, and Felicity Aulino 2008. Introduction: "Avian and Pandemic Influenza: A Biosocial Approach." Journal of Infectious Diseases 197(Supp. 1): S1-S3.

Kleinman, Arthur M., Barry R. Bloom, Anthony Saich, Katherine A. Mason, and Felicity Aulino 2008 "Introduction: Asian Flus in Ethnographic and Political Context: A Biosocial Approach."  Special Issue, “Asian Flus in Ethnographic and Political Context: A Biosocial Approach,” Anthropology and Medicine 15(1): 1-5.

Curriculum Vitæ: 
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