ACADEMICS - Faculty
Ruth Enestvedt
Assistant Professor
Batalden Faculty Scholar
Coordinator of Augsburg/Central Nursing Clinic
enestved@augsburg.edu
Research and Scholarly Interests
Critical Medical Anthropology and Aging
Cultural foundations of health disparities
Culturally based barriers to health care access
Research
Dynamics of resistance and control in health care among low
income elderly women.
Recent Publications
"Dementia of scarcity? Medicalizing complaints of low-income elderly women." (submitted
to Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Areas of Teaching and Responsibility
Teaching: Research courses in undergraduate and graduate
programs
Practice courses in transcultural nursing (graduate)
Final graduate course integrating theory, research and practice
Transcultural course in Mexico
Cultural Anthropology in collaboration with sociology department
