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Kalman Applbaum

  • Professor, Anthropology

Education

  • PhD, Anthropology, Harvard University

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ANTHRO 102-201 Introduction to Anthropology: Culture and Society No Meeting Pattern
ANTHRO 940-001 Seminar in Problems in Cultural Anthropology: Altered States of Consciousness M 5:30pm-8:10pm

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 102 - Introduction to Anthropology: Culture and Society
  • ANTH 104 - Lifeways in Different Cultures: A Survey of World Cultures
  • ANTH 229 - Madness and Culture
  • ANTH 325 - Japanese Culture and Society
  • ANTH 431 - Urban Anthropology
  • ANTH 443 - Medicine and Pharmaceuticals in the Global Age
  • ANTH 449 - Economic Anthropology
  • ANTH 543 - Cross Cultural Study of Religion
  • ANTH 944 - Economic Sustainability and the Pursuit of Happiness
  • GLOBAL 311 - Contexts for Global Management (Global Studies

Research Interests

Applbaum’s current research concerns the commercial marketing of pharmaceuticals on the one hand, and the evaluation of safety, adherence and treatment costs and outcomes on the other. He has background and specific interest in rational drug use in psychiatry. He is co-founder of Data Based Medicine (Rxisk.org), which aims to improve the quantity and quality of adverse drug events reporting and to implement findings in health care.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.