Cheryl Mattingly
Professor of Anthropology, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
Contact at: (323) 442-2850 or mattingl@hsc.usc.edu
Expertise:
- ethnographic writing
- therapeutic storytelling
- relation between narrative and healing
- development of narrative theory
- narrative reasoning
- clinical reasoning
- phenomenology of disability
- disability as a socially constructed
experience
- role of narrative in clinical reasoning
- ethnography of OT practice
- psychological anthropology
- medical anthropology
- cultural anthropology
- Author of Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of
Experience (1998)
Co-author of Clinical Reasoning: Forms of Inquiry in a Therapeutic
Practice (1993)
Co-editor, Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness (2001)
Recipient of the Polgar Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology
(1999) and the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the
Society for Humanistic Anthropology (2000)
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