Carole H. Brower’s research has focused principally on the politics of reproduction in its diverse contexts. Publications include the multi-prize-winning collection, Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives (Duke). Interest in the social impact of decoding the human genome led her to investigate genetic testing for neurology care. Her co-authored monograph, with H. Mabel Preloran, Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today’s Medicine (Routledge), considers the meanings and impacts of genetic diagnoses for patients living with fatal neurodegenerative diseases, their family caregivers, and their clinicians. Her current projects include an interdisciplinary collaboration on Mexican health care reform and field research with indigenous and nonindigenous rural Mexican women on the meanings of gender and self-actualization.