Society for Medical Anthropology

A section of the American Anthropological Association

SMA Members: Theses and Dissertations

 

dissertations

  • Anahi Viladrich, Social Careers, Social Capital, and Immigrants’ Access Barriers to Health Care: The Case of the Argentine Minority in New York City (NYC). Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, 2003. (Winner of the Marisa de Castro Benton Prize, 2003)
  • Barbra Erickson, Toxin or Medicine? Incorporating Radioactive Radon Gas into the Therapeutic Process. University of Nevada, Reno, 2002.
  • Beth Kangas, The Lure of Technology: Yemenis' International Medical Travel in a Global Era, University of Arizona, 2002.
  • Katrina A. Karkazis, Beyond Treatment: Mapping the Connections among Gender, Genitals, and Sexuality in Recent Controversies over Intersexuality, Columbia University, 2002.
  • Liz England Kennedy, Representation, Performance, Identity and Communication: An Ethnography of Post-secondary U.S. Students With Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorders, University of Arizona, 2002.
  • Janneli Miller, Birthing Practices of the Raramuri of Northern Mexico, University of Arizona, 2002
  • Seline Szkupinki Quiroga, Disrupted Bodies: The Effect of Infertility on Racialized Identities, University of California - San Francisco/Berkeley, 2002.
  • Paola Sesia-Lewis, Confronting Neoliberalism: Food Security and Nutrition Among Indigenous Coffee Growers in Oaxaca, Mexico, University of Arizona, 2002.
  • Christina M. Saunders Sturm, Breast Cancer Illness Narratives: Examining the experience of living with breast cancer. Case Western Reserve University, 2002.
  • Gene Bukhman, Reform and Resistance in Post-Soviet Tuberculosis Control, University of Arizona, 2001.
  • David Eaton, Emotion & Change in Sexual Culture: Response to AIDS among Young Men of Congo & Cameroon, University of California, Berkeley, 2001.
  • Lisa Gollin, The Taste and Smell of Taban Kenyah (Kenyah Medicine): An Exploration of Chemosensory Selection Criteria for Medicinal Plants among the Kenyah Leppo' Ke of East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. University of Hawai'i, 2001.
  • Elaine Hooker, An Investigation into Practices and Effects of Parent-Infant Cosleeping, Durham University, 2001.
  • Nana Abena Owusu-Darkwa, Wild Hunger: Crack and Heroin Dependency in Postcolonial Ghana. University of California, Berkeley, 2001.
  • Diane R. Pawlowski, The Body Shop: Staff Work and Life in an Urban Medical Rehabilitation Hospital, Wayne State University, 2001.
  • Kerstin Renschmidt, Old Colony and General Conference Mennonites in Chihuahua, Mexico: History, Representation, and Women's Everyday Lives in Health and Illness, University of Arizona, 2001.
  • Carolyn Smith-Morris, The Political Economy of Diabetes, Pregnancy, and Identity in the Gila River Indian Community, University of Arizona, 2001.
  • Diane Tober, Romancing the Sperm: the Screening and Making of Alternative American Families. University of California, Berkeley, 2001.
  • Paola M. Heinonen, Anthropology of Street Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Durham University, 2000.
  • João Biehl, Other Life: AIDS, Biopolitics and Subjectivity in Brazil's Zones of Abandonment, University of California at Berkeley, 1999.
  • Sandra Hyde, Sex, Drugs and Karoke: Everyday AIDS Practices in Southwest China, University of California at Berkeley, 1999.
  • Michael Kozart, Practice, Meaning and Belief in Latino Pentecostalism: A Study in the Dynamics of Religious Healing, Theology and Social Order, University of California at Berkeley, 1999.
  • Nicolas Sheon, Sacraments of Surveillance: Ethnography of an HIV Test Clinic, University of California at Berkeley, 1999.
  • Glenn H. Shepard, Pharmacognosy and the Senses in two Amazonian Societies, University of California at Berkeley, 1999.
  • Sabine Wilms, The female body in Medieval China: A translation and interpretation of the "Women's Recipes" in Sun Simiao's Beiji Qianjin Yaofang, University of Arizona, 2002.

masters theses

  • Laura Suzanne Resau, "Cooking the Body" in a Changing World: Post Partum Practices in the Mixteca, University of Arizona, 2002.
  • Audrey Dougall, An Anthropological approach to evaluating patient and general practioners' experiences with an open access flexible sigmoidoscopy service in Teesside, UK, Durham University, 2001.
  • Rie Goto, Biochemical markers of health for children with poor anthropometric status in urban Nepal, Durham University 2001, (MPhil).
  • Lori (Ito) Hardenbergh, Swallowing the Discourse on Vitamins: The Use of Dietary Supplements to Cure the Ills of Modernity, University of Arizona, 2001.
  • Tara Christine Robertson, Patterns of Help-Seeking Behavior of Residents in a Battered Women's Shelter: The Role of Social Support. University of Alabama, 2001.
  • Samuel Dunn, "Keeping the Pain": Health, Belonging and Resilience Among Guatemalan Immigrant Men, York University, 2000.
  • Jessica Malini Edwards, Reproductive Perception and Family Planning Among the Iban. University of Alabama, 2000.
  • Stacy Elizabeth McGrath, An Ethnohistorical Archaeological, Osteological and
    Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of a 19th Century African American Cemetery: A Methodological Case Study. University of Alabama, 2000.

SMA - in print: recent books

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2008

  • Hahn, Robert A & Marcia Inhorn (2008). Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society, Oxford University Press
  • Inhorn, Marcia (2008). Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium. Berghahn Books
  • Karkazis, Katrina (2008). Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience. Duke University Press.
  • Nichter, Mark (2008). Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • Sobo, Elisa J (2008). Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research: An Applied Approach. Left Coast Press.
  • Taylor, Janelle S. (2008). The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction. Rutgers University Press.
  • Winkelman, Michael (2008). Culture and Health: Applying Medical Anthropology. Jossey-Bass

2007

  • Abel, Emily K (2007). Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
  • Baker, Beth 2007. Old Age in a New Age: The Promise of Transformative Nursing Homes.Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Cueto, Marcos 2007. The Value of Health: A History of the Pan American Health Organization. Scientific and Technical Publication, 600 Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization
  • Day, Sophie (2007). On the Game: Women and Sex Work. by London: Pluto Press
  • Edberg, Mark (2007). Essentials of Health Behavior: Social and Behavioral Theory in Public Health. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
  • Franklin, SarahDolly 2007. Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
  • Gangestad, Steven W. and Jeffry A. Simpson, eds. (2007). The Evolution of Mind. New York: Guilford Press
  • Helman, Cecil (2007) Culture, Health and Illness. Fifth edition. New York: Oxford University Press
  • Kiefer, Christie W. (2007). Doing Health Anthropology: Research Methods for Community Assessment and Change. New York: Springer
  • Kirmayer, Laurence J., Robert Lemelson, and Mark Barad, eds. (2007). Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Schulz, Amy J and Mullings, Leith. (2007). Gender, Race, Class, and Health: Intersectional Approaches. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
  • Singer, Merrill and Baer Hans Lanham, (2007). Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action. : AltaMira Press
  • Zhang, Yanhua (2007). Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China. Albany: State University of New York Press

2006

  • Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella (2006). Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle 2006. A Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press
  • Ferreira, Mariana Leal & Gretchen Chesley Lang eds (2006). Indigenous Peoples and Diabetes: Community Empowerment and Wellness. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press
  • Healy, Kieran 2006. Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
  • Helman, Cecil (2006). Suburban Shaman: Tales from Medicine's Frontline. Hammersmith Press.
  • Lindquist, Galina (2006). Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia. New York: Bergham
  • Maternowska, M. Catherine (2006). Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Parens, Erik ed. (2006). Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Petryna, A., A. Lakoff, and A. Kleinman, eds. (2006). Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Rodlach, Alexander 2006. Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS and Cultures of Blame in Africa. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press
  • Rosenfeld, Dana & Christopher A. Faircloth, Eds (2006). Medicalized Masculinities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
  • Sharp, Lesley (2006). Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Sharp, Lesley (2006) Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Sievert, Lynette Leidy (2006). Menopause: A Biocultural Perspective. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
  • Smith-Morris, Carolyn (2006). Diabetes among the Pima: Stories of Survival. Tucson: University of Arizona Press
  • Torres, Eliseo "Cheo" & Timothy L. Sawyer Jr. (2006). Healing with Herbs and Rituals: A Mexican Tradition . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.'
  • Wray, Matt 2006. Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press

2005

  • Ben-David, Orit Brawer (2005). Organ Donation and Transplantation:Body Organs as an Exchangeable Socio-Cultural Resource. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
  • Engelstad, Ericka and Siri Gerrard, eds. (2005). Challenging Situatedness: Gender, Culture and the Production of Knowledges. Delft: Eburon Publishers.
  • Guest, Greg (2005). Globalization, Health and the Environment: An Integrated Perspective. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
  • Henderson, Gail E., Sue E. Estroff, Larry R. Churchill, Nancy M. P. King, Jonathan Oberlander, and Ronald P. Strauss (2005). The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition, Volume Two: Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Hutchinson, Janis Faye (2005). The Coexistence of Race and Racism: Can They Become Extinct Together? Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
  • Hutchinson, Janis Faye (2005). Power, Race, and Culture: The Evolution of a Black Anthropologist. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books.
  • Johannessen, Helle and Imre Lazar, eds. (2005). Multiple Medical Realities: Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine. New York: Berghahn Books
  • Kaufman, Sharon (2005) … and a time to die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
  • Lakoff, Andrew (2005). Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Macdonald John J (2005) Environments for Health. London: Earthscan
  • Schulz, Amy J. and Leith Mullings, eds. (2005). Gender, Race, Class and Health: Intersectional Approaches. Jossey-Bass.
  • Singer, Merrill (2005). Something Dangerous: Emergent and Changing Illicit Drug Use and Community Health. Waveland Press.

2004 and previous

  • Dumit, Joseph (2004). Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • Dossa, Parin, Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women from the Diaspora.Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars' Press
  • Klassen, Pamela E (2001). Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Maynard, Kent (2004). Making Kedjom Medicine: A History of Public Health and Well-Being in Cameroon. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
  • Rhodes, Lorna A. (2004). Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Sobo, E. & P. Kurtin, eds. (2003). Child Health Services Research: Applications, Innovations, and Insights. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  • Taylor, Janelle, Linda Layne, and Danielle Wozniak, ed. (2004). Consuming Motherhood. Rutgers University Press.