The Expert is a biocultural medical anthropologist with interests in gender and sexuality, physical and mental health, global mental health, and how global and local social, political, and cultural processes “get under the skin” to produce variation health outcomes. His dissertation research was funded by Fulbright and the National Science Foundation. It focused on how young South Korean men’s ability to conform to their cultural models of the ideal male body affected their vulnerability to disordered eating. Intersectional analysis of sexuality and education revealed different levels of vulnerability and different relationships with body ideals. He is currently a postdoctoral research scholar at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.
He is continuing my research on South Korean men’s body image alongside new, exciting work in eating disorders prevention and obesity treatment.
LGBTQI; Gender-based violence/domestic violence; Likelihood of destitution or homelessness; ethnic, religious, or tribal persecution; risk from non-state actors; risk of retaliation; healthcare access/health systems capacity; mental illness
Monocello, Lawrence T., and William W. Dressler. 2022. “Cultural Consonance, Body Image, and Disordered Eating among Young South Korean Men.” Social Science & Medicine 314 (December): 115486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115486.