Researchclopedia

Research Researchers Institutions Topics Submit About

Command Palette

Search for a command to run...

Researchclopedia

Research Researchers Institutions About

© 2026 Researchclopedia. Powered by OpenAlex under CC0 license.

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes | Researchclopedia

Back to researchers

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

217

Works

14,849

Citations

47

h-index

99

i10-index

Research Topics

Organ Donation and Transplantation Anthropological Studies and Insights Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health

Affiliations

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill1981–2020

National Humanities Center1991–1991

Berkeley College1995–2015

Harvard University1980–2014

University of Cape Town1993–1994

Top Works

Death Without Weeping

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

19922,805 citations

Biomedical Ethics and Regulation

Homelessness and Social Issues

The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes,Margaret Lock

19872,490 citations

The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

19951,240 citations

The Global Traffic in Human Organs

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

2000710 citations

Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil.

Donna J. Guy,Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

1993460 citations

Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes,Philippe Bourgois,et al.

2003326 citations

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

2004301 citations

Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland.

J. B. Loudon,Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

1980290 citations

Making it Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community.

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes,Sue E. Estroff

1983262 citations