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book chapters by medical anthropologists in non medical anthropology volumes

Marshall, Mac (2003). "Market Highs: Alcohol, Drugs, and the Global Economy in Oceania." In Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands, Victoria S. Lockwood, ed., Prentiss-Hall.

Mark Nichter and David Van Sickle (2002). "The Challenges of India's Health and Health Care Transition." In India Briefing: Quickening the Pace of Change. Alyssa Ayres and Philip Oldenburg eds. Asia Society Publication. Armonk, NY, pp 159-196.

Singer, Merrill (2003). "Enduring Challenges of Community-Based HIV Prevention Among Not-in-Treatment Drug Users." Strategies to Improve the Replicability, Sustainability, and Durability of HIV Prevention Interventions for Drug Users. Washington, D.C.: National Institute on Drug Abuse.

articles by medical anthropologists in non-medical anthropology journals

Boonmongkon, J. Pylypa, N. Sanhajariya and S. Saitong (2002). "Working at the Interface Between the Local and the Global." Women and Health. 35(4): 59-80.

Brook, David, Judith Brook, Elizabeth Rubenstone, Chenshu Zhang, Merrill Singer and Michael Duke (2003). "Alcohol Use in Adolescents Whose Fathers Abuse Drugs." Journal of Addictive Diseases 22(1):11-34.

Castro, Arachu, and Paul Farmer (2003)"Infectious disease in Haiti: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and inequalities." (pdf) European Molecular Biology Organization Reports 4.

Clair, Scott, Merrill Singer, Elsa Huertas, and Margaret Weeks (2003). "Unintended Consequences of Using an Oral HIV Test on HIV Knowledge." AIDS Care 15(4): 575-580.

Farmer, Paul (2002). "Can transnational research be ethical in the developing world?" Lancet 360(9342): 26 October.

Farmer, Paul (2003). "Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor." California Series in Public Anthropology, 4. With a Foreword by Amartya Sen

Robert E. Hunter, C. Ross Anthony, and Nicole Lurie (2002). " Make World Health the New Marshall Plan." Rand Review, Summer.

Liang, Lan, Frank Chaloupka, Richard Clayton, Mark Nichter (2003)."Prices, Policies, and Youth Smoking." Addiction 98, (suppl 1)105-122.

Lyttleton, Chris and Paul Cohent (2003). "Harm reduction and alternative development in the Golden Triangle." Drug and Alcohol Review 22(1), pp. 83-91, March.

McGowan, Virginia (2003). "Net-working the Steps: Web-based Support for Women in Recovery from Problem Gambling." [review] EGambling: The Electronic Journal of Gambling Issues,. 8 (May).

McGowan, Virginia (2003). "Counter-story, Resistance and Reconciliation in Online Narratives of Women in Recovery from Problem Gambling." International Gambling Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 115.-131, November.

McGowan, Virginia (2003). "How Do We Know What We Know? Epistemic Tensions in Social and Cultural Research on Gambling 1980-2000." EGambling: The Electronic Journal of Gambling Issues.

Mintz, Sidney W. and Christine M. Du Bois (2002)."The Anthropology of Food and Eating." Annual Review of Anthropology 31:99-119 (May 10).

Needle, Richard, Robert Trotter, Merrill Singer, Christopher Bates, J. Bryan Page, David Metzger and Louis Marcelin (2003). "Rapid Assessment of the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities: An Approach for Timely Community Interventions." American Journal of Public Health 93(6):970-979.

Nichter, Mark, Mimi Nichter and Pamela J. Thompson, Saul Shiffman, and Anna-Barbara Moscicki, M.D. (2002). "Using Qualitative Research to Inform Survey Development on Nicotine Dependence among Adolescents." Drug and Alcohol Dependence 68:S41-S56.

Nichter, Mark (2003). "Smoking: What’s Culture Got to Do With It?" Special Issue of the Journal Addiction on Contextual Factors Influencing Tobacco Use and Dependence, Addiction 98, (suppl 1)139-145.

Panter-Brick, C. (2002). "Street children, human rights, and public health: A critique and future directions." Annual Review of Anthropology 31:147-71. (pdf)

Prussing, E; Sobo, EJ; Walker, E; Kurtin, P. (2005). "Between 'desperation' and disability rights: a narrative analysis of complementary/alternative medicine use by parents for children with Down syndrome." Social Science and Medicine 60(3):587-598.

Prussing, E; Sobo, EJ; Walker, E; Dennis, K; Kurtin, P. (2004). "Communicating about complementary/alternative medicine: Perspectives from parents of children with Down syndrome." Ambulatory Pediatrics 4(6):488-494.

Romerio, Lauri, Naniek Kasniyah, Tuanchai Inthusoma, Nick Higgenbotham, Mark Nichter, and David Striner." Measles Immunization Acceptance in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand." Southeast Asia Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health.

Seid, MS; Sobo, EJ; Gelhard, L; Varni, JW. (2004). "Parents' reports of barriers to care for children with special health care needs: Development and Validation of the Barriers to Care Questionnaire." Ambulatory Pediatrics 4(4):323-331.

Singer, Merrill (2003). "Reversing the Hierarchy: Rethinking Multidisciplinarity in Drug Research." International Journal of Drug Policy 14(1).

Sobo, EJ (2005). "Parents' Perceptions of Pediatric Day Surgery Risks: Unforeseeable Complications, or Avoidable Mistakes?" Social Science & Medicine. 60(10): 2341-2350.

Sobo, E. (2004). "Good Communication in Pediatric Cancer Care: A Culturally-Informed Research Agenda." Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing (special issue). 21(3):150-154.

Sobo, EJ. (2004). "Nurses' knowledge of parent or patient communication needs in a pediatric cancer unit: Room for improvement." Journal of Nursing Care Quality 19(3):253-262.

Sobo, E. (2002). "Developing And Evaluating Injury Prevention Programs: A Beginner's Guide."

Sobo, E., Andriese, S. Stroup, C., Morgan, D., and Kurtin, P.S (2001). "Developing Indicators for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) System Evaluation and Quality Improvement: A Statewide Demonstration and Planning Project." The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement 27(3):138-154.

Sobo, E.J., Billman, G., & Abe, C. (2004). "Using Smart Infusion Pumps to Manage Medication Administration, In: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, A Guide to JCAHO's Medication Management Standards," pp. 139-145 (Section 2, Chapter 9). Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission Resources.

Sobo, E., Billman, G., Lim, L., Murdock, W., Romero, E., Donaghue, D., Roberts, W., Kurtin, P.S. (2002). "A Rapid Interview Protocol supporting Patient-centered Quality Improvement: Hearing the Voice of the Parent in a Pediatric Cancer Unit." Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Volume 28, Number 9, September 2002, pp. 498-509(12).

Sobo, E., Billman, G., Lim, L., Murdock, W., Romero, E., Donaghue, D., Roberts, W., Kurtin, P.S. (2002). "A Rapid Interview Protocol supporting Patient-centered Quality Improvement: Hearing the Voice of the Parent in a Pediatric Cancer Unit." The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement 28(9):498-509.

Sobo, EJ; Eng, B; Kassity, N. (2005). "Canine Visitation ('Pet') Therapy: Pilot Data on Decreases in Pediatric Pain." Holistic Nursing. (in press).

Sobo, E. & Kurtin, P. (2003). "Variation in physicians' definitions of the competent parent and other barriers to guideline adherence: the case of pediatric minor head injury management." Social Science & Medicine. 56(12):2479-2491.

Sobo, E. & Sadler, B. "Improving Organizational Communication and Cohesion in a Healthcare Setting through Employee-Leadership Exchange." Human Organization 61(3): 277-287.

Sobo, E.J. & M. Seid. (2003). "Cultural issues in health services delivery: What kind of 'competence' is needed?" Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education 9(2):97-100.

Sobo, EJ; Seid, M; Gelhard, L. (In press). "Parent-identified barriers to pediatric health care: A process-oriented model and method." Health Services Research.

Sobo, E., Simmes, D., Landsverk, J., & Kurtin, P.S. (2003). "Rapid assessment with qualitative telephone interviews: Lessons from an evaluation of California's Healthy Families program & Medi-cal for children." American Journal of Evaluation. 24(3):399-408.

Stone, Glenn Davis (2002)."Biotechnology and Suicide in India." Anthropology News, May.

Stopka, Tom, Merrill Singer, Claudia Santelices, , and Julie Eiserman (2003). "Public Health Interventionists, Penny Capitalists, or Sources of Risk? Assessing Street Syringe Sellers in Hartford, Connecticut." Substance Use & Misuse, Vol. 38, No. 9, pp. 1339-1370.

Taylor, Janelle (2004). "Big Ideas: Feminist Ethnographies of Reproduction." American Ethnologist 31(1): 123-130. [Essay review of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis, Rayna Rapp (Routledge, 1999); Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture, Linda Layne, ed. (NYU Press, 1999); Pragmatic Women and Body Politics, Margaret Lock and Patricia Kaufert, eds. (Cambridge, 1998); and Baby’s First Picture: Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects, Lisa M. Mitchell (University of Toronto Press, 2001).]

Taylor, Janelle (2003). "Confronting ‘Culture’ in Medicine’s ‘Culture of No Culture.’ " Academic Medicine 8(3):555-559.

Taylor, Janelle (2002). "The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram and the Work of the Sonographer." Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography 18(6):367-379.

Taylor, Janelle (2005). "Surfacing the Body Interior." Annual Review of Anthropology 34:741-756.

Wakefield, Melanie , Brian Flay, Mark Nichter, and Gary Giovino (2003). "Role of Media in Influencing Trajectories of Youth Smoking." Addiction 98, (suppl 1)79-103.

Walker E., Sobo, E, & P. Kurtin (2002). "Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Down Syndrome: What do Pediatricians Need to Know?" California Pediatrician 18(1):34-35.

Westerhaus, Michael & Arachu Castro (2006). "How Do Intellectual Property Law and International Trade Agreements Affect Access to Antiretroviral Therapy?" PLOS Medicine 3(8).

Zoumas, C., Rock, C., Neuhouser, M., Sobo, E. (2001). Children's patterns of macronutrient intake and associations with restaurant and home eating. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 101(8):923-925.

articles by medical anthropologists in newspapers and magazines

Farmer, Paul. "Q & A: Health Care for the Poorest as a Central Human Right." The New York Times, March 29, 2003

Morgan, Lynn. "Research is a good life for dead embryo." The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Nov. 29, 2002.

articles and book chapters of interest to medical anthropologists by scholars in allied disciplines

"The ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries," Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 24 April 2002.

Cohen, Deborah A.; Wu, Shin-Yi; and Farley, Thomas A. (2005). "Cost-Effective Allocation Of Government Funds To Prevent HIV Infection," Health Affairs Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 915-926.

KI Resch, E Ernst and J Garrow (2003). " A randomized controlled study of reviewer bias against an unconventional therapy." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 93 (4).