Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nancy Scheper-Hughes (born 1944) is an anthropologist, educator, and author. She is the Chancellor's Professor Emerita of Anthropology and the director and co-founder (with Margaret Lock) of the PhD program in Critical Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her writing on the anthropology of the body, hunger, illness, medicine, motherhood, psychiatry, psychosis, social suffering, violence and genocide, death squads, and human trafficking.

Scheper-Hughes is the author of several books, including ''Death Without Weeping: the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil'' (UC Press)[https://anthropology.berkeley.edu/death-without-weeping-violence-everyday-life-brazil]; ''Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Ireland'' (UC Press, in three editions); ''Commodifying Bodies'' (UK Sage) with Loic Wacquant; ''Violence in War and Peace'' (Wiley-Blackwell) with Philippe Bourgois; and, most recently, ''Violence in the Urban Margins'' (Oxford University Press), with P. Bourgois and J. Auyero.

Scheper-Hughes conducted anthropological fieldwork in Northeast Brazil, Argentina, Israel, South Africa, Moldova, the Philippines and the US. As founding director of Organs Watch, she is a consultant on human organ trafficking for the European Union, Interpol, United Nations, and the Vatican. She has testified (pro bono) in several prosecutions of human traffickers. She was a witness to the organ trade that brought Israeli kidney patients from Israel, Europe and New York City to Durban, South Africa and "kidney sellers" from impoverished communities in Recife. Her investigations of an international ring of brokers and their living organ sellers led to a number of arrests by the FBI. Provided by Wikipedia