Page 1 Allan Young CURRICULUM VITAE Allan Young ADDRESS Department of Social Studies of Medicine McGill University 3647 Peel Street, 2nd Floor Montreal, PQ H3A 1X1 Canada Tel: 514-398-6249; Fax: 514-398-1498 Email: [email protected] ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies in Medicine Chairman Department of Social Studies of Medicine, 1998-2005 Professor Department of Social Studies of Medicine Professor Department of Anthropology Professor Department of Psychiatry CITIZENSHIP Canada and United States EDUCATION 1970 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania 1963 M.A. Anthropology, University of Washington 1959 B.A. Anthropology (with honors), University of Pennsylvania ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 1989-present McGill University 1987-1989 Case Western Reserve University, Department of Anthropology, Professor 1977-1987 Case Western Reserve University, Department of Anthropology, Associate Professor 1974-1977 Case Western Reserve University, Department of Anthropology, Assistant Professor 1970-1974 New York University, Department of Anthropology, Assistant Professor 1969-1970 New York University, Department of Anthropology, Instructor 1 Page 2 Allan Young ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 1967-1969 Military service (US Army) HONORS AND AWARDS 2008 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Studies - Paris 2001-2002 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Studies) 1998 The Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems, Awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK) on behalf of the Wellcome Trust, for The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder FIELD RESEARCH OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA 1981 Israel (summer), Research on clinical practice involving recent Ethiopian immigrants 1979 Israel and Nepal (February-August), Research on health care delivery 1976 Nepal (summer), Research on the intercalation of Ayurvedic medicine into government health services 1973 Ethiopia (summer), Research on group psychotherapy in an Ethiopian possession cult 1966-1967 Ethiopia, Research on traditional medical beliefs and practices in Begemder Province FIELD RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES 1980-1981 Cleveland, Ohio (November-May), Ethnographic research on clinician-patient interaction in a Family Medicine clinic 1985-1988 Brecksville, Ohio (August-January), Ethnographic research on post-traumatic stress disorder at the national Center for Stress Recovery (Veterans Administration Medical System) FIELD RESEARCH IN CANADA 1993-present Québec, Ethnographic research on ethnicity and mental health 2 Page 3 Allan Young FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2007-2009 Co-investigator. IDRC (Global Health Research Initiative Teasdale Corti Team Grant: Violence, natural disasters and mental health outcomes. Principal investigator, Duncan Pedersen: $2,800,477 CAD. 2006-2009 Sole investigator. Social origins of post 9/11 trauma and resilience. Social Science and Humanities Research Council: $47,992 CAD. 2003-2009 Co-principal investigator. Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec, Team Grant (Culture and Mental Health). Principal investigator Lawrence Kirmayer: $1,680,000 CAD. 2002-2009 Co-investigator. Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Operating Grant (Transfer of Bioscience Knowledge: Gene-Based Vulnerability in Psychiatry). Principal investigator Margaret Lock: $375,461 CAD. 1998-2001 Co-investigator. Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide à la Recherche, Team Grant (An Anthropology of the Body, Memory and Identity). Principal investigator Margaret Lock: $180,000 CAD. 1994-1996 Co-investigator. Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec (Pathways and Barriers to Mental Health Care). Principal investigator Lawrence Kirmayer: $195,898 CAD. 1990 McGill University Social Science Research Grant 1981 Case Western Reserve University Research Initiative Grant 1979 National Science Foundation Research Grant 1976 Case Western Reserve University Faculty Research Grant 1973 New York University Faculty Research Grant 1965-1967 National Institute of Mental Health Research Grant 1964-1967 National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship 1959-1962 National Defense Education Act Fellowship MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 3 Page 4 Allan Young American Anthropological Association, Fellow Royal Anthropological Institute (U.K.), Fellow PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 1988-1989 U.S. National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment, Member of the Health Services Development Grants Review Subcomittee 1986-1987 U.S. Veterans Administration Medical System, Consultant OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2005-present Editorial Board, Social Science and Medicine 2000-present Editorial Board, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1997-present Editorial Board, Anthropology and Medicine (U.K.) 1996-present Editorial Board, Transcultural Psychiatry 1990-present Editorial Board, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 1985-1996 Editorial Board, Social Science and Medicine 1985-1995 Editorial Board, International Journal of Health Services 1985-1990 Co-editor in Chief (with Margaret Lock), Culture, Illness, and Healing Series, a monograph series in medical anthropology and international medicine, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (Netherlands) PUBLICATIONS (sole author unless indicated otherwise) accepted for publication. The social brain and the myth of empathy. Science in Context. accepted for publication. From posttraumatic stress to resilience for all. In Stress, Shock and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century,Rochester Studies in Medical History, D. Cantor and T. Brown, eds. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 2012. Logic and sensibility in social neuroscience s New Unconscious . Logic and Sensibility. Watanabe, Shigeru, ed., pp. 91-106. Tokyo: Keio Univ. Press. 2011. Empathic cruelty and the origins of the social brain. In Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience. Suparna Choudhury and Jan 4 Page 5 Allan Young Slaby, editors. Pp. 159-176. Oxford: Blackwell. 2011. Self, brain, microbe, and the vanishing commissar. Science, Technology, and Human Values 36: 638-661. 2011. Empathy, evolution, and human nature. In Empathy: From Bench to Bedside, J. Decety, D. Zahavi, and S. Overgaard, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2011. Vier Versionen des Holocaust-Traumas. Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Gerschichte. Pp. 185-206. 2011. Young, A. and Rees, T. Medical anthropology enters the 21st century. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 199: 592-596. 2010. Darwin, la dialectique de cerveau. In Darwin: 200 ans, Alain Prochiantz ed., pp.137- 157 Paris: Odilie Jacob. 2010. The history of a virtual epidemic. In Embodiment and the State: Health, Biopolitics and the Intimate Life of State Powers. Giovanni Pizza and Helle Johannessen, eds. AM. Rivista della Società italiana di antropologia medica n. 27-28: 21-36. 2009. Mirror neurons and the rationality problem. In Rational Animals, Irrational Humans, Watanabe, S., Huber, L., Young, A., and Blaidsell, A., editors. Pp. 55-69. Tokyo : Science University Press. 2009. Watanabe, Shigeru, Huber, Ludwig, Young, Allan, and Blaidsell, Aaron, editors. Rational Animals, Irrational Humans. Tokyo : Science University Press. 2009. An Anthropology of Science. In Ideas : On the Nature of Science, Cayley, David, editor. Pp.323-340. Fredericton, NB : Goose Lane Editions. 2008. Kultur im Gerhirn: Empatie, die menschliche Natur und Spiegelneuronen. Wie geht Kultur unter die Haut? Emergente Praxen an der Schnittstelle von Medizin, Lebens- und Socialwissenschaft. J. Niewöhner, C. Kehl, and Stefan Beck eds., pp. 31-54. Bielefeld (Germany): Transcript Verlag. 2008. Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Era of the Social Brain: How Evolutionary Narratives May Shape Psychiatry's Future. In: Vera Saller, Mirna Würgler and Regula Weiss, eds. Neue Psychiatrische Diagnosen im Spiegel sozialer Veränderungen/New Psychiatric Diagnoses as Reflection of Social Change. pp. 21-37. Zurich: Seismo. 2008. A time to change our minds: anthropology and psychiatry in the 21st century. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 32: 298-300. 2007. PTSD of the virtual kind trauma and resilience in post 9/11 America. In Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law. Austin Sarat, Nadav Davidovitch, and Michal Alberstein eds., pp. 21-48. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 5 Page 6 Allan Young 2007. 9/11: In the wake of the terrorist attacks. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 195: 1030-1032. 2007. America s transient mental illness: a brief history of the self-traumatized perpetrator. In Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations. João Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman, eds., pp. 155-178. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2007. Bruno and the Holy Fool: myth, mimesis, and the transmission of traumatic memories. In Understanding Trauma: Cultural, Psychological and Biological Perspectives, L.J. Kirmayer, R. Lemelson, and M. Barad, eds., pp. 339-362. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Troublesome memories: reflections on the future. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 21: 230-232. Co-author: Naomi Breslau 2006. The self-traumatized perpetrator : from Vietnam to Abu Ghraib. In Large-Scale Victimisation as a Potential Source of Terrorist Activities: Importance of Regaining Security in Post-Conflict Societies, U. Ewald and K. Turkovi , eds., pp. 103-111. Amsterdam: IOS Press. 2006. Bruno et le fou sacré : Mythe, mimesis et la transmission des mémoires traumatiques, L Evolution psychiatrique 7 : 485-504. 2006. Trauma und Verarbeitung in den USA nach dem 11. September 2001 Ein anthropologischer Blick auf virtuelle Traumata und Resilienz. In Ernestine Wohlfahart and Manfred Zaumseil, eds. Transkulturelle Psychiatrie Interkulturelle Psychotherapie: Interdisziplinäire Theorie und Praxis, pp. 391-410. Heidelberg : Springer Medizin Verlag. 2006. La psychiatrie à la recherche d un esprit post-génomique. Sciences Sociales et Santé 24 : 117-46. 2006. Remembering the evolutionary Freud. Science in Context.19:175-189. 2006. Traumatisme à distance, résilience héroïque et guerre conte le terrorisme. Revue Française de Psychosomatique 28 :39-62. 2004. When traumatic memory was a problem: On the antecedents of PTSD. In Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies, edited by G. Rosen, pp. 127-146. London: Wiley. 2004. How narratives work in psychiatric science: An example from the biological psychiatry of PTSD. In Narrative Research in Health and Illness, edited by B. Hurwitz, T. Greenhalgh and V. Skultans, pp. 382-396. Oxford: Blackwell. 2002. The self-traumatized perpetrator as a transient mental illness. Evolution Psychiatrique 67: 26-50. Published simultaneously in French as: L auto-victimization de l aggresseur: un ephémère paradigme de maladie mentale. L Evolution psychiatrique 67: 1- 25. 6 Page 7 Allan Young 2002. Notes on the evolution of evolutionary psychiatry. In New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie, edited by M. Nichter and M. Lock, pp. 221-238. London: Routledge Kegan Paul. 2001. PTSD a culture bound sydrome?: A cultural critique of a diagnostic concept and its export. In Culture op de vlucht: over de transculturele psychiatrische zorg aan asielzoekers en vluchtingen, edited by H. Bot, M. Braakman, L. Preijde and W. Wassink, pp. 77-84. Tilburg (Netherlands): Janssen-Cilag. 2001. Our traumatic neurosis and its brain. Science in Context 14: 661-683. 2001. Introduction to PTSD no Iyro-jinruigaku (The Medical Anthropology of PTSD, translated by Hisai Nakai, Yasuyoshi Otsuki, Akitomo Shimoji, Tsuyoshi Tatsumi, and Akane Naito. Tokyo: Misuzo Shobo. (Japanese edition of The Harmony of Illusions, with a new introduction by the author and a preface by Hisao Nakai) 2001. Nos névroses traumatiques ont-elles un avenir? In La maladie mentale en mutations: Psychiatrie et société, edited by Alain Ehrenberg and Anne Lovell, pp. 101-126. Paris: Editions Odilie Jacob. 2000. Co-editor with M. Lock and A. Cambrosio. Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. M. Lock, A. Young and A. Cambrosio. Introduction. In Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry, edited by M. Lock, A. Young and A. Cambrosio, pp. 1-16. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. History, hystery, and psychiatric styles of reasoning. In Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry, edited by M. Lock, A. Young and A. Cambrosio, pp. 135-164. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. W.H.R. Rivers and the war neuroses. Journal of the History of Behavioural Sciences 35: 359-378. 1999. An alternative history of traumatic stress. In International Handbook of Human Responses to Trauma, edited by A. Shalev, R. Yehuda and A. McFarlane, pp. 51-66. New York: Plenum. 1998. Walter Cannon and the psychophysiology of fear. In Greater than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine,1920-1950, edited by C. Lawrence and G. Weisz, pp. 234-256. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. Laurence Kirmayer and Allan Young. Culture and somatization: Clinical, epidemiological and ethnographic perspectives. Psychosomatic Medicine 60: 420-430. 7 Page 8 Allan Young 1997. Modi del ragionare e antropologia della medicina. Revista della Soicetá italiana di antopologia medica 3/4: 11-28. (Italian translation of 1976. Magic as quasi-profession: The organization of magic and magical healing among Amhara. Ethnology 14: 245-265) 1996. Bodily memory and traumatic memory. In Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory, edited by M. Lambeck and P. Antze, pp. 89-102. London: Routledge. 1996. Suffering and the origins of traumatic memory. Daedalus 125: 245-260. 1995. The reasons and causes for postrraumatic stress disorder. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review 32: 287-298. 1995. The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1995. Commentary. Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions, edited by Don Bates, pp. 355-360. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995. Medical anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Bioethics, edited by Warren T. Reich. New York: Macmillan. 1995. L. Kirmayer, A. Young and B. Hayton. The cultural context of anxiety disorders. Psychiatric Clinics of North America 18: 503-522. 1994. L. Kirmayer, A. Young and J. Robbins. Symptom attribution of anxiety disorders. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 39:584-595. 1993. A description of how ideology shapes knowledge of a mental disorder (posttraumatic stress disorder). In Knowledge, Power and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life, edited by S. Lindenbaum and M. Lock, pp. 108-128. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1993. W.H.R. Rivers and the anthropology of psychiatry. Social Science and Medicine 36(7): iii-vii. 1992. (Mis)applying medical anthropology in multicultural settings. Santé Culture Health. 1992. Co-editor with C. Leslie. Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1992. C. Leslie and A. Young. Introduction. In Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge, edited by C. Leslie and A. Young. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1992. Reconstructing rational minds: Psychiatry and morality in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. In The Social Construction of Illness, edited by J. Lachmund and G. Stollberg, pp. 115-124. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 8 Page 9 Allan Young 1991. Emil Kraepelin and the origin of American psychiatric diagnosis. In Anthropologies of Medicine: A Reader in North American and European Perspectives in Medical Anthropology, edited by P. Pfleiderer and G. Bibeau, pp. 175-181. Braunschweig, Germany: Vieweg. 1990. Moral conflicts in a psychiatric hospital treating combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. In Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics, edited by G. Weisz, pp. 65-82. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1988. Unpacking the demoralization thesis. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2: 3-12. 1987. How medicine tamed life. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 11: 107-121. 1983. The relevance of traditional medical cultures to primary health care. Social Science and Medicine 17: 1205-1211. 1983. Rethinking ideology. International Journal of Health Services 13: 203-219. 1982. The anthropologies of illness and sickness. In Annual Review of Anthropology, 1982, edited by B.J. Siegel, pp. 257-285. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews. 1982. Rational men and the explanatory model approach. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 6: 21-34. 1982. The Amhara medical system. In African Health and Healing Systems, edited by P.S. Yoder. Los Angeles: Crossroads Press. 1981. Editorial comment. Social Science and Medicine 15B: 1-3. 1981. The creation of medical knowledge: Some problems of interpretation. Social Science and Medicine 15B: 379-386 1981. When rational men fall sick: An inquiry into some assumptions made by medical anthropologists. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 5: 317-335. 1980. An anthropological perspective on medical knowledge. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 5: 102-116. 1980. The discourse on stress and the reproduction of conventional knowledge. Social Science and Medicine 14B: 379-386. 1979. The dimensions of medical rationality: A problematic for the psycho-social study of medicine. In Towards a New Definition of Health, edited by G. Coelho and P. Ahmed. New York: Plenum. 1978. Discussion of Francis Zimmerman s paper. In Theoretical Foundation for the Comparitive Study of Medical Systems, edited by C. Leslie. Special issue of Social Science and Medicine 12B: 105-106. 9 Page 10 Allan Young 1978. A. Young, editor. Rethinking the Western Health Enterprise. Special issue of Medical Anthropology 2(2). 1978. Introduction: Rethinking the Western health enterprises. In Rethinking the Western Health Enterprise, edited by A. Young. Special issue of Medical Anthropology 2(2): 1-10. 1978. Mode of production of medical knowledge. In Rethinking the Western Health Enterprise, edited by A. Young. Special issue of Medical Anthropology 2(2): 97-124. 1977. Order, analogy, and efficacy in Ethiopian medical divination. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1: 183-199. 1976. Magic as quasi-profession: The organization of magic and magical healing among Amhara. Ethnology 14: 245-265. 1976. Internalizing and externalizing medical belief systems: An Ethiopian example. Social Science and Medicine 10: 147-156. 1976. Some implication of medical beliefs and practices for social anthropology. American Anthropologist 78: 5-24. Reprinted in P. Worseley, ed. 1979. Problems of Modern Society. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1975. The practical logic of Amhara traditional medicine. Rural Africana 26: 78-89. 1975. Why Amhara get kureynya: Sickness and possession in an Ethiopian zar cult. American Ethnologist 2: 567-584. 1967. Varieties of Amhara graphic art. Expedition 9: 2-11.the 21st century. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 199: 592-596. SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS AND ORGANIZED SESSIONS 2011. Invited presentation: Does the brain have a mind f its own? Conference title: Neuro Reality Check: Scrutinizing the Neuro-turn in the Humanities and Natural Sciences. Max- Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. (3 December) 2011. Oxytocin and the end of history. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Americam Anthropological Association, Montreal (18 November) 2011. Invited presentation: The twilight of human nature? Conference title: Toward an Integration of Logic and Sensibility: From Neuroscience to Philosophy. Keio University, Tokyo (13 September) 2011. Out of the Shadows: Schadenfreude and Human Nature . Keynote speaker. Conference title: Mastering the Emotions: Control, Contagion and Chaos, 1800 to the Present Day. Queen Mary University of London. (16 June) 10