Professor, Social Studies of Medicine, Anthropology, & Psychiatry
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
McGill University

Allan Young is Professor in the Departments of Social Studies of Medicine, Anthropology and Psychiatry at McGill University. Dr. Young received his graduate training at the University of Pennsylvania and has studied traditional medical practices in Ethiopia and Nepal and conducted ethnographic research on PTSD in a psychiatric inpatient unit for two years in the US. Dr Young's current research interests are culture and somatization, the ethnography of post-traumatic stress disorder, and anthropology of psychiatry.