Kathleen Hanlon-Lundberg
Part-time Faculty
734 223 9093
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Department
Anthropology
Public Health
Kathleen Hanlon-Lundberg
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
Reproductive health, Maternal and Child Health
Technology in Medicine
Human, Animal, Vegetable Entanglements
Research
Through my career I have conducted and been involved in many kinds of research! This includes basic scientific research on the contractility of uterine muscle fiber, clinical medical research on outcomes of babies exposed to maternal cocaine use and preterm babies after maternal treatment with corticosteroids to promote lung maturity, clinical laboratory studies on nucleated red blood cells in neonates as a marker of wellbeling and stress.
I am now focused on biosocial aspects of childbirth practice, especially the use of medical-technological intervention such as cesarean delivery. My doctoral dissertation research explores ways in which women naturalize technology in their experience of pregnancy and childbirth, from preconceptual self-surveillance to birth and into early infant care.
My current research project assesses transgenerational birth practice. Are we on a branch of evolution in which we are becoming increasingly dependent on advanced technologies to effect birth that complies with desired personal and societal biosocial goals?
Education
- M.D. Medical College of Wisconsin
- B.S. University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
- Licensed Physician, State of Michigan
- SafeSport Trained
- Ph.D. Wayne State University: Medical Anthropology
Awards and grants
Wayne State University Part-Time Faculty Development Grant 2023.
Selected publications
Hanlon-Lundberg, Kathleen M. "" To Me, It Was Natural": Naturalization of Technologically-Mediated Pregnancy and Birth Experience." PhD diss., Wayne State University, 2021.
Guinn, Debra A., M. Wendy Atkinson, Lisa Sullivan, MenJean Lee, Scott MacGregor, Barbara V. Parilla, Jill Davies et al. "Single vs weekly courses of antenatal corticosteroids for women at risk of preterm delivery: a randomized controlled trial." Jama 286, no. 13 (2001): 1581-1587.
Hanlon-Lundberg, Kathleen M., Russell S. Kirby, Sweeta Gandhi, and Fredrik F. Broekhuizen. "Nucleated red blood cells in cord blood of singleton term neonates." American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 176, no. 6 (1997): 1149-1156.
Hanlon-Lundberg, Kathleen M., Michelle Williams, Teresa Rhim, Robert F. Covert, Robert Mittendorf, and John A. Holt. "Accelerated fetal lung maturity profiles and maternal cocaine exposure." Obstetrics & Gynecology 87, no. 1 (1996): 128-132.
Other qualifications directly relevant to courses taught
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Associate Member