Lesley Sharp, named the inaugural recipient of the Leah M. Ashe Prize for the Anthropology of Medically-Induced Harm
Professor Lesley Sharp, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Leah M. Ashe Prize for the Anthropology of Medically-Induced Harm, awarded by the Society for Medical Anthropology "for excellence in explorations of the limits of healing practices, broadly defined, to explore the limits of health care including harms and injustices emergent from the healing endeavor.” The award has been given for a recent article of hers that appeared in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, “Death and Dying in Carceral America: The Prison Hospice as Inverted Space of Exception.” To learn more about the prize, please click here.
September 12, 2022