Lynn M. Morgan

Professor of Anthropology

Email: lmmorgan@mtholyoke.edu

Office: Merrill House, Room 200

Tel: 413-538-2108

Books: 

Morgan, Lynn M. The Embryo Collectors: How a Handful of Scientists Shaped an American Origin Story (working title). In preparation.

Morgan, Lynn M. Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions. Co-edited with Meredith Michaels. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Winner of the "Most Enduring Contribution to the Field Prize" given by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction of the Society for Medical Anthropology, 2005.

Morgan, Lynn M. Community Participation in Health: The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993. Published in Spanish as Participación Comunitaria en Salud. La Política de Atención Primaria en Costa Rica. Translated by Jeanina Umaña A. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Nacional de Salud y Seguro Social, Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, 1997. 

Articles: 

Morgan, Lynn M. 2006. "Life begins when they steal your bicycle": Cross-cultural practices of personhood at the beginnings and ends of life. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 34(1):8-15.

Morgan, Lynn M. 2005. The political economy of health. IN Science, Technology, and Society: An Encyclopedia. Sal Restivo, ed. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

Morgan, Lynn M. 2004. A social biography of Carnegie embryo no. 836. Anatomical Record (Part B, New Anatomist) 276B(1):3-7.

Morgan, Lynn M. 2003. Embryo tales. IN Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences. Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock, eds., pp. 261-91. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

Morgan, Lynn M. 2002. Of cadavers and commodities. Comment on “For whom the cell tolls: Debates about biomedicine,” by Gísli Pálsson and Kristín E. Hardardóttir. Current Anthropology 43(2): 292-93.

Morgan, Lynn M. 2002. “Properly disposed of”: A history of embryo disposal and the changing claims on fetal remains. Medical Anthropology 21(3-4):247-74.

Morgan, Lynn M. 2002. Romancing the transgender native: Rethinking the use of the “third gender” concept. Co-authored with Evan B. Towle. GLQ 8(4):469-97.

Morgan, Lynn M. 2001. Community participation in health: perpetual allure, persistent challenges. Health Policy and Planning 16(3):221-30. Portuguese language version IN Abordagens Anthropológicas em Epidemiologia. Carlos E. A. Coimbra, Jr. and James A. Trostle, eds. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Editora Fiocruz. Forthcoming.

Morgan, Lynn M. 2000. Magic and a little bit of science: Technoscience, ethnoscience, and the social construction of the fetus. IN Bodies of Technology. Ann R. Saetnan, Nelly Oudshoorn, and Marta Kirejczyk, eds., pp.355-367. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1999. Materializing the fetal body, or, what are those corpses doing in biology's basement? In Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions. Lynn M. Morgan and Meredith W. Michaels, eds., pp. 43-60. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1999. The fetal imperative (co-authored with Meredith Michaels). IN Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions. Lynn M. Morgan and Meredith W. Michaels, eds., pp. 1-9. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1998. Latin American social medicine and the politics of theory. IN Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic Perspectives in Biological Anthropology. Alan Goodman and Thomas Leatherman, eds., pp 407-424. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1997. The mystery of life. Anthropology Newsletter 38(3).

Morgan, Lynn M. 1997. Imagining the unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes. Feminist Studies 23(2):323-350.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1996. Babies, bodies, and the production of personhood in North America and a Native Amazonian society. Co-authored with Beth A. Conklin. Ethos 24(4):657-694.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1996. Fetal relationality in feminist philosophy: An anthropological critique. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 11(3):47-70.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1990. International politics and primary health care in Costa Rica. Social Science & Medicine 30(2):211-219. Published in Spanish as "Política internacional y atención primaria de salud en Costa Rica," trans. by Consuelo Fernández. Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos 19(1):91-105, 1993.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1990. The medicalization of anthropology: A critical perspective on the critical-clinical debate. Social Science & Medicine 30(9):945-50.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1989. Guest Editor. The Political Economy of Primary Health Care in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Special Issue, Medical Anthropology Quarterly (n.s.) 3(3). Editor's introduction, "The importance of the state in primary health care initiatives," pp. 227-231.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1989. "Political will" and community participation in Costa Rican primary health care. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 3(3):232-245. Published in Spanish as "La voluntad política y la participación de la comunidad en la atención de la Salud Primaria en Costa Rica," trans. by María Cecilia Alvarado Van Patten. Revista Centroamericana de Administración Pública 19 (julio-diciembre 1990):5-23.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1989. When does life begin? A cross-cultural perspective on the personhood of fetuses and young children. In Abortion and Fetal "Personhood". Edd Doerr and James W. Prescott, eds., pp. 97-114. Long Beach, CA: Centerline Press. Reprinted in Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology, William A. Haviland and Robert J. Gordon, eds., pp. 28-38. Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing, 1992.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1989. When life begins -- a cultural perspective. Christian Science Monitor Opinion Page, May 5, 1989, p. 19. Reprinted in the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly, August 1989. Reprinted in Social Problems: A Critical Thinking Approach, 2nd edition. Paul J. Baker, Louis E. Anderson, and Dean S. Dorn eds., pp. 416-17. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1987. Health without wealth? Costa Rica's health system under economic crisis. Journal of Public Health Policy 8(1):86-105. Abridged version reprinted as "Health effects of the Costa Rican economic crisis," In Costa Rica: The Roots of Crisis in a Central American Democracy. M. Edelman and J. Kenen, eds. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. Reprinted in Spanish as "Salud sin riqueza? El sistema de salud de Costa Rica bajo la crisis económica." Revista Centroamericana de Administración Pública (San José, Costa Rica, 1988) 12:25-39.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1987. Dependency theory in the political economy of health: An anthropological critique. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1(2):131-154. Winner of the Rudolf Virchow prize granted annually by the Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus of the Society for Medical Anthropology for the paper which best advances the perspective of critical medical anthropology.

Morgan, Lynn M. 1987. Explaining the mysteries of conception. In Generations. A. Cohn and L. Leach, eds., pp. 21-24. New York: Pantheon and Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute.