Departments of Family Medicine and Pediatrics
Associate Professor

Linda L. Barnes is a medical anthropologist and a scholar in the study of world religions. Her research and teaching interests involve the intersections of culture, religion and spirituality, complementary and alternative therapies, and the social history of Western responses to Chinese healing traditions. The recipient of multiple teaching awards, she currently teaches at Boston University’s School of Medicine and at Harvard Medical School, and directs the Boston Healing Landscape Project. Her books include Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 (2005); Religion and Healing in America (co-edited with Susan S. Sered, 2005); and Teaching Religion and Healing (co-edited with Ines Talamantez, 2006). 

For more information, see: http://www.bu.edu/familymed/research/barnes.html