Dr. Cantrell joined the Sociology faculty at Georgia State University full-time in 1991. Her education interests in health care issues are reflected in career activities of education, practice and university administration. In 1985-86, Dr.
Cantrell was an American Council on Education Fellow. Inequities in society and health care have interested Dr.Cantrell since her undergraduate days. This interest is reflected not only in the courses she teaches, but also in a manuscript, Health Resource
s, Issues and Resolutions, currently under revision.
Her research areas include: impacts of disclosure behavior of HIV infected mothers to their children on the health trajectories and compliance behaviors of the mothers and children; suicide ideation and behavior among HIV positive mothers; de
ath attitudes among female illicit drug users; and sympathy attitudes among college students toward people who commit suicide and euthanasia. Research collaborators include Dr. Judy Stillion, suicidologist and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Western
Carolina University, and Dr. Peggy Keen, Director of the Grady Hospital Infectious Disease Clinic for Women and Children.
Undergraduate and graduate courses currently being taught by Dr. Cantrell include: Medical Sociology, Sociology of Loss, Dying, and Death, Sociology of Mental Health and Illness, and Sociology of Aging. In the near future, she also plans to t
each a course in Sociology of HIV/AIDS. Dr. Cantrell believes education should be challenging, even frustrating, broadening, fun and a life-long pursuit. Her courses are designed to help students prepare for the continued analysis of society and their pla
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