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Bernice L. Hausman, PhD

Chair, Department of Humanities
Penn State College of Medicine
Hershey, Pennsylvania

Bernice L. Hausman is the Garner James Cline Professor of Humanities in Medicine and Chair of the Department of Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine. Prior to her 2018 appointment at Penn State, she was the Edward S. Diggs Professor in Humanities and Chair of the Department of English at Virginia Tech. Dr. Hausman graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in literature and has a doctorate in Feminist Studies and Critical Theory from the University of Iowa. She studies medical controversies in the public sphere, with expertise in breastfeeding and motherhood, transgender history, and vaccination controversy. She is the author of four single-authored books and numerous peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Her first book, Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender (Duke University Press, 1995) traces the history of endocrinology and surgery in the 20th century and their influence on ideas about gender, identity, and the body. Books two and three, Mother’s Milk: Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture(Routledge, 2003) and Viral Mothers: Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS (Michigan, 2010), concern infant feeding debates and modern anxieties about maternal embodiment. Her most recent book, Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy (Cornell, 2019), explores vaccination dissent as historically persistent and culturally meaningful. Currently Dr. Hausman serves on the steering committee of the Health Humanities Consortium and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Humanities. As chair of Humanities at Penn State, she led a curricular renewal effort to refocus humanities education in medicine on social justice and critical consciousness.

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