Emily Martin

Emily Martin is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at New York University. Her ethnographic projects have ranged from the anthropology of health and medicine to the history of the experimental method and the concept of data in experimental psychology. Her books include The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (Beacon Press 1987), Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS (Beacon Press, 1994), and Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture (Princeton University Press, 2007. Her current project is described in Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter, (2021) from Princeton University Press.

• You can read more about her research here: “Persons of Interest” profile, “An Anthropologist Investigates How We Think About How We Think” by Ceridwen Dovey, The New Yorker, 2018