Chiara Moretti

Background

About Chiara Moretti

Medical anthropologist, research fellow at the University of Milan Bicocca and Adjunct Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Brescia. After graduating in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of Bologna, I obtained a PhD at the University of Strasbourg, in international co-tutorship with the University of Perugia. From 2010 to 2019 I have conducted a long-term anthropological research, both in Italy and France, focused on the medicalization and feminization processes in chronic pain and fibromyalgia syndrome. During my latest ethnographic researches I focussed on health professionals education/training and on the illness’ experience in Long-Covid syndrome, gender bias and biomedicine. From 2020 to the present, I have been teaching medical anthropology at the Faculties of Medicine of the Universities of Bologna, Brescia, Parma and Roma Tor Vergata. As research fellow at the University of Milano Bicocca I am currently doing research within the CliBor Project (The Climate of Borders: Lessons from Borderlands on the Environmental Crisis) focused on the relationship between climate changes, migration and border control policies, and how this affects on the embodied experience and people health. I serve as a member on the Board of Directors for the Italian Society of Medical Anthropology (SIAM). Main research interests are: history of medical knowledge; pain and suffering from a medical anthropology perspective; health impacts of climate change; gender, culture and health; anthropology in healthcare settings; access to healthcare services and health promotion.