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Lorna Rhodes (PhD 1973, Cornell)

Research Interests:
Cultural anthropology, culture and psychiatry, medical anthropology, religion; South Asia, Sri Lanka, US

Selected Publications:

2004

Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison, University of California Press.

2003

Utilitarians With Words: “Psychopathy” and the Supermaximum Prison. Ethnography, Fall 2003.

2001

"Toward an Anthropology of Prisons." Annual Review of Anthropology 30:65-87.

2000

Taxonomic Anxieties: Axis I and Axis II in Prison. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14(3):346-373.

1991

Emptying Beds: The Work of An Emergency Psychiatric Unit. University of California Press.


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