Seth M. Holmes

Seth M. Holmes (born 1975) is Chancellor's Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley.

He also serves as founder and co-chair (with Charles L. Briggs) of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, co-director (with Ian Whitmarsh) of the MD/Ph.D.

The book utilizes first-hand ethnographic field notes and transcripts from interviews, alongside anthropological theory to analyze the effects of economic and border enforcement policies on indigenous people from Southern Mexico, the effects of ethnicity and citizenship hierarchies on health, the interactions and misunderstandings between Mexican migrant patients and their physicians, as well as the ways in which social and health inequalities come to be taken for granted as well as sometimes confronted and challenged.

[8][9] He has also conducted research on medical education and the ways in which medical trainees learn to manage uncertainty and perform clinical competence, which led to the publication of the special issue of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry “Anthropologies of Contemporary Clinical Training”, co-edited with Angela Jenks and Scott Stonington.

He co-edited with Scott Stonington, Helena Hansen, Jeremy Greene, Michelle Morse, Angela Jenks, Paul Farmer, and Sir Michael Marmot the New England Journal of Medicine "Case Studies in Social Medicine", bringing together clinical cases with social science concepts.