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Sharon Kaufman, PhD
Institute for Health & Aging; Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences; and Dept. of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine; University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Sharon Kaufman is a medical anthropologist whose current primary area of
research (supported by NIA/NIH) centers on the kind of people we are becoming in an aging society in which medical technique plays a central and powerful role.
She is particularly interested in the ways in which medical techniques link
ethics to intervention and consumption, and is currently investigating the ways
in which life-extending medical procedures in late life shape knowledge and
practices surrounding normal aging, lifespan, family and obligation. Her many
publications include her prizewinning book: And a Time to Die: How American
Hospitals Shape the End of Life (2005).