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Research keywords:
Chronic Pain Management; Healthcare; Heterotemporality; Hybrid Ethnography; Medical Anthropology; Pacific Northwest Prescription Opioid Epidemic; Rehabilitation; Telehealth; Telementoring; United States
Dissertation title:
Rehabilitating Medicine: Chronic Pain, Opioid Prescribing, and Telementoring Technologies in the Pacific Northwest
Bio:
Lee Brando earned their PhD in anthropology from The New School for Social Research in 2023. Specializing in medical anthropology, Lee focuses on chronic pain management, opioid prescribing, and substance use disorder in their work. Their dissertation investigates the heterotemporal character of telementoring networks intended to support clinicians as opioid prescribing policy dramatically shifted and led to recursive iatrogenic harms. Grappling with tensions between the chronicity of illness and crisis ignited by fast, finite, transactional medicine, Lee reverses the lens of rehabilitation to explore the ways in which rehabilitation operates on clinicians (as opposed to patients) in order to restore medicine’s good standing along with its break from opioid dependence (in prescribing). Lee’s previous research interests include aging and sexual minorities in the United States, particularly how lesbians and bisexual women 55+ made housing decisions and plans in the absence of federal and state-level legal protections. They have been a high school social studies teacher since 2008 and taught Introduction to Medical Anthropology at The New School (spring 2020 and 2021).
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