Dr. Daisy Fan

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Assistant Professor

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EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2007      Sociology, University of Texas-Austin
Dissertation, “Beliefs about Aging and Later Life Health and Well-Being Among the Elderly in Taiwan.”
M.A. 2002      Sociology, University of Texas-Austin
B.A. 2000      Anthropology, National Taiwan University

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESET
MAJOR FIELD                      RESEARCH INTERESTS
Health                              Alternative Medicine
                                        Aging and Life Course
                                        Religion and Mental Health
Gender                             Gender and Health Disparities
Demography                    Premature Mortality
Family                             Intergenerational Relationship

LIST OF COURSES TAUGHT
Culture, Health and Illness
Diagnosis of Taiwan’s Social Problems
Aging Society and Elderly Service
The Second Sex and Gender Study
Exploring the World with Sociological Imagination
Sociology of Gender

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Dec, 2017        Fan, Daisy. “Alternative Scientific Motherhood and Homeopathy” Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies (TSSCI) 41: 51-104

May, 2017       Fan, Daisy. “Women and Alternative Medicine” in Sociology at Street Conrner. Taipei: Common Master Press (Book Chapter)

Apr, 2017        Fan, Daisy. “When Princess Pea Becomes a Mother: About the Society’s Expectation on Best Parenting and Perfect Parenthood” in A Hundred Ways to Be Parents. Taipei: Common Master Press (Book Chapter)