Professor and Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies of Medicine聽
Academic Advisor, SSoM Undergraduate Minor
todd.meyers [at] mcgill.ca
Professor Meyers was trained in anthropology and public health science at Johns Hopkins University and studied studio arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies of Medicine and teaches courses in the medical school and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Meyers's recent book is聽(Duke University Press, 2025), which traces the swirl of grief that follows fatal overdose in Montreal. His聽previous books are聽(Duke University Press, 2022), (Presses Universitaires de France, 2017) and (University of Washington Press, 2013), and he is the co-author of (with Richard Baxstrom, August Verlag, 2018), (with Stefanos Geroulanos, University of Chicago Press, 2018), (with Richard Baxstrom, Fordham University Press, 2016), and (with Stefanos Geroulanos, August Verlag, 2014). Alongside Nancy Rose Hunt and Achille Mbembe, he co-edits the book series at Duke University Press.
Research Interests
Professor Meyers's research moves between the social study and history of medicine, clinical ethnography, and anthropological approaches to the study of visual culture. He is currently working on a long-term project that examines mental illness and the medicalization of hate-related violence in rural America, entitled The Sin Between Us, as well as a study of the visual culture of wounding, entitled The Shape of Future Wounds (under contract, 麻豆传媒网站-Queen鈥檚 University Press). Professor Meyers has received numerous awards and fellowships, including an ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship, a Residency Research Fellowship at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Research at the University of Michigan, and the Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Fellowship/NIH/National Institute of Drug Abuse
Selected Publications
Todd Meyers, "What Comes After Disintegration?" esse: revue d'art contemporain 115, Autumn 2025.
Todd Meyers, 鈥淪peaking of Pain,鈥� The Lancet 405 (10485): 1135, April 05, 2025.
Todd Meyers, 鈥淕rief, but different,鈥� The Lancet 401 (10387): 1490-1491, May 06, 2023.
Editor, A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age, volume 6 in A Cultural History of Medicine, Roger Cooter, general editor (Bloomsbury 2021).
Todd Meyers, 鈥淒茅plorables,鈥� in Le soin en premi猫re ligne, ouvrage coordonn茅 par Fr茅d茅ric Worms, Jean-Christophe Mino et Martin Dumont (Presses Universitaires de France, 2021), 155-164.
Editor, Pamela Reynolds鈥檚 (Duke University Press, 2019).
Editor, Herv茅 Guibert鈥檚 (Fordham University Press, 2016).
Courses Given
Faculty of Arts
ANTH615 Medical Anthropology Graduate Seminar (Mess, Winter 2023) (Grief & Horror, Winter 2024) (Endings, Winter 2025)聽(A Body is An Instrument of Interpretation, Winter 2026)
ANTH438 Topics in Medical Anthropology (Aftermaths/Afterlives, Fall 2020)
ANTH302 New Horizons in Medical Anthropology (Clinics, Winter 2021) (The Patient, Winter 2022, Fall 2023)
ANTH227 Introduction to Medical Anthropology (Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
PIAT Med4 (The Patient in the First Person, Winter 2024, Winter 2026)
PIAT Med4 (Addiction Worlds, Winter 2022, Winter 2023)
HSSM605 Medical Anthropology Seminar (Things that Linger, Winter 2022)
Research Fundamentals 1-2 (Narrative Medicine, Fall 2021-Fall 2022) (Palliative Care, Fall 2025 - Fall 2026)