SMA - in print: theses & 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
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Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of a 19th Century African American Cemetery:
A Methodological Case Study. University of Alabama, 2000.
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