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Marie Boutte, Ph.D.

Professor

Teaching	Education	Research
Publications	Personal

Contact Information

Office Number: LR 217
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone Number: (775) 682-7098
Email Address: marieb@unr.edu

 

Teaching
CHS 345		Ethics and Professionalism in Public Health This required course for CHS majors is designed to introduce the student to professional and ethical principles and conduct within the field of public health. Students learn the strategies for a "professional presentation of self" and importance of ethical guidelines and decision making in conduct of research and practice.
CHS 426/626		Medical Anthropology Application of anthropological theories and methods to questions of human health, illness, medicine and healing. It is a valuable class for all who are interested in cross-cultural issues of health and diversity in health care.
CHS 427/627		Toxic Communities and Public Health Examination of how communities are affected by environmental toxins and how contaminated communities organize and respond to health effects of such environmental processes.

Education

Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley with an emphasis on Medical Anthropology – degree conferred in 1987.

M.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982

Research Interests

Medical anthropology, inherited disorders, stigma, health compensation, rural health, health effects of atomic radiation, veteran health and compensation. 

Recent Publications

Atomic Veterans and Health Compensation: Old Stories for New Soldiers. Book manuscript in progress.

Health Assessment Downwind: Past Abuses Shadow Future Indicators. In Half-Lives & Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War. Edited by Barbara Rose Johnston. SAR Press, Sante Fe, NM. 2007.

Compensating for Health: The Act and Outcome of Atomic Testing. (2002). Human Organization, 61, 41-50. 

Articles on Genetic Prophecy, Waiting for the Family Legacy, Discredited Inheritance and The Stumbling Disease appeared in Social Science and Medicine, Human Organization and Practicing Anthropology. Two articles were reprinted in Medical Anthropology and Medical Sociology texts.

Personal

Dr. Boutte enjoys traveling and she believes in eating breakfast every morning. Favorite quote: Success comes when competence meets opportunity.