UCLA Medical Anthropologist Marjorie Kagawa-Singer
The Five Stages of Grief Don’t Always Apply
Marjorie Kagawa-Singer is a medical anthropologist at UCLA. In a 45-year career working as a clinician and a researcher, she has focused on reducing health disparities and identifying cultural processes of health behavior among individuals and families dealing with cancer and other chronic diseases. Before joining the panel at a Zócalo/The California Wellness Foundation event titled “How Are Immigrants Changing Our Definition of Health?,” she talked in the green room about culture, Italian and Japanese food, and the different ways people respond to a diagnosis of terminal cancer.
