Lenore Manderson


Lenore Hilda Manderson is an Australian medical anthropologist. She is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, at Monash University, Australia.

Early life

Manderson was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She graduated from the Australian National University with a BA in Asian Studies and then a PhD.

Career

Manderson was Professor of Tropical Health. In recognition of her research, she was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences in 1995. In 1999 she became Professor of Women’s Health, South Africa and Ghana, and most recently in the Solomon Islands.
In 2010 Manderson and fellow researcher Carolyn Smith-Morris edited the book Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness She was the editor of the 2011 book Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries and the Social Self, as well as Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health in the same year.
Manderson was chairperson of the Program Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees of the World Academy of Art and Science 2010-2011,
In 2012 she co-edited the book Flows of Faith: Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific with Wendy Smith and Matt Tomlinson, and Reframing Disability and Quality of Life: A Global Perspective with Narelle Warren.

Honours

She was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia in 1995 and the World Academy of Art and Science in 2004. She is an Honorary Professor at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Khon Kaen University, Thailand.
In 2014 she is a member of the steering committee for a project of the Academy of Science of Australia on population, equity, climate change and sustainability. She was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Stewardship on Research on Infectious Disease of Poverty, WHO/TDR , and is a member of the TDR Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee from January 2012. She is Editor of the international journal Medical Anthropology.