FORD Andrea

  • Andrea Ford, PhD, is a cultural and medical anthropologist at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the University of Edinburgh School of Medicine.

Her research explores how ideas about gender, bodies, knowledge, nature, and technology shape the culture surrounding endometriosis. Her books include Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary with Bloomsbury Academic, Near Birth: Contested Values and the Work of Doulas with University of California Press (in press), and Inflamed: A Cultural History of Endometriosis (in preparation). In 2024 she began a 5-year Wellcome Trust project investigating the ‘FemTech’ industry. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago, is a member of the UK Young Academy, and publishes in and reviews for top-tier social science journals.

She was selected as a World Endometriosis Society Early Career Ambassador in 2024.