M. Margaret Clark

Mary Margaret Clark (1925 - 2003) was an American medical anthropologist.

Life

She was living in San Rafael, California, at the time of her death at 78 years old.

Education

Clark completed her doctorate in anthropology in 1957 at Berkeley. Her dissertation was “Health in the Mexican-American Culture” and was published in 1959.

Research

Among her works are Health in Mexican-American Culture (1959) and Culture and Aging (1967). She served as president of the American Anthropological Association in 1982. She held positions in the Gerontological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and the Society for Applied Anthropology. She received the Distinguished Mentorship Award from the Gerontological Society of America in 1989 and the Malinowski Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology in 1992.

She did her graduate studies at Berkeley under George Foster, with whom she later as professor at UCSF, co-founded the joint program in medical anthropology at the University of California San Francisco and University of California Berkeley - which has been credited as founding the sub-discipline of medical anthropology.