Background
She was born in 1950 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and emigrated with her parents to the United States that same year.
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Barbara Rylko-Bauer
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Rylko-Bauer received an undergraduate degree in microbiology from the University of Michigan, and in 1985 was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology from the University of Kentucky.
Career
She is an adjunct associate professor at Michigan State University"s Department of Anthropology. Her interests include medical anthropology, applied anthropology, social suffering, health care inequities in the United States, health and human rights, narrative analysis, and the Holocaust. She has published various articles, chapters, and books on these topics.
She has served as a contributing editor to the American Anthropology Association"s Anthropology News for the Society for Medical Anthropology (1991–1994) and for the American Automobile Association Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology (2013-2014), as book review editor for Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1994–2000), and on several committees for the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Her most recent work focuses on the intersection of health and violence and includes a volume, Global Health in TImes of Violence, edited in collaboration with Linda Whiteford and Paul Farmer In addition, she is the author of a biography-memoir, A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother"s Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade, which focuses on her mother"s experiences as a Polish prisoner-doctor in Nazi slave labor camps and her efforts to rebuild her life, first as a refugee doctor in Germany, and later as an immigrant to the United States.
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