Howard Waitzkin
American sociologist
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Sociology
Howard Waitzkin's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of California, San Francisco
- Masters Public Health University of California, Berkeley
- PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Howard Waitzkin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Mexico and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Illinois. Education and career Waitzkin grew up in a small town in northeastern Ohio. At an early age, tragedy in his low-income family spurred his interest in the relationships among oppression and inequality, public health, and medicine. Waitzkin received his MD and PhD in sociology from Harvard University in 1972. Over the course of his career, Waitzkin has practiced as a primary care physician in internal medicine and has taught social medicine at a variety of clinics and universities, including the United Farm Workers Clinic in Salinas, California; La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland, California; Stanford University Medical Center; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; and the University of California. Waitzkin joined the faculty of the University of New Mexico in 1997. Currently, he practices medicine at a rural health center of the Community Health Partnership of Illinois and is adjunct professor of internal medicine at the University of Illinois.
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