Cheryl Mattingly
- Professor in the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occuaptional Therapy
- Joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Expertise Summary
Expert in Phenomenology of disability, Clinical reasoning and Medical anthropology
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
- moral reasoning and experience
- health care disparities, chronic illness and disability
Additional Information
- Recipient of 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 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)
- Visiting Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University (Denmark)
- Recipient of the 1998 Polgar Essay Prize from the American Anthropological Association’s Society for Medical Anthropology
- Co-
Principal Investigator of “Boundary Crossings,” a NIH study totaling more than $5M of federal funding to longitudinally follow 30 African-American children with illnesses and/or disabilities, their families and practitioners who serve them.