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Emily Rogers is an Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her teaching and research focus on the intersection of disability studies, medical anthropology, and science, technology, and society (STS). Rogers is particularly interested in the politics of medicine, exploring how disabled and chronically ill individuals navigate the precarity of their bodies within a biomedical context that often falls short in providing adequate treatment. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled 'Sick Work: Illness, Exhaustion, Making ME/CFS,' which investigates the lived experiences of individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Her recent publication, 'Recursive Debility: Symptoms, Patient Activism, Incomplete Medicalization ME/CFS,' published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly in September 2022, examines the ongoing contestation surrounding the diagnosis and medicalization of ME/CFS, highlighting challenges due to the lack of consistent diagnostic definitions, biological indicators, and approved treatments.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)