Sarah Rubin
Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Social Medicine in the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
SPS-338B, Cleveland Campus
Sarah E Rubin, Ph.D., MSc, is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Social Medicine at 91探花鈥檚 Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Cleveland Campus. Her research explores how humans cope with oppression and forge meaningful lives under these constraints. Her ongoing projects focus on racial disparities in maternal and infant health in the U.S. and South Africa. Dr. Rubin contributes to antiracist theory in the social sciences including medical anthropology, public health and medical ethics.
Publications (selected)
- Rubin, Sarah E. 鈥淭he Inimba It Cuts鈥: A Reconsideration of Mother Love in the Context of Poverty." Ethos 46, no. 3 (2018): 330-350.
- Rubin, Sarah E., and Joselyn Hines. 鈥淎s Long as I Got a Breath in My Body鈥: Risk and Resistance in Black Maternal Embodiment." Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (2022): 1-24.
- Smith-Oka, Vania, Sarah E. Rubin, and Lydia Z. Dixon. "Obstetric violence in their own words: how women in Mexico and South Africa expect, experience, and respond to violence." Violence against women 28, no. 11 (2022): 2700-2721.