My particular area of study is twentieth-century Mexico, particularly the Cárdenas administration (1934-1940).  I am fascinated by the interaction between growing state institutions and the practice of individual physicians.  What role did Medicine play in debates over what "the Mexican Revolution"--that multivalent, contested historical, yet present event--ultimately meant?

As a medical student myself, I am especially interested in how various state ideologies influenced the process of professionalization of Mexico's budding medical professionals.  President Cárdenas may have had a plan to "socialize the professions," but how did medical education and state programs affect the way that individual students experienced that strange metamorphosis which transformed them from Students to Professional?  If you'd like to learn more, see the next page!

Broadly, my current interests with respect to Latin American science, medicine and technology are as follows:

• Race and Medicine

• Professional Identity Formation

• National and International Science and the question of "Science at the Periphery"

• Folk Remedies and Biomedicine

• Health and the Welfare State

• Scientific Revolutions vs. Political Revolutions