| Oct. 1978-Dec. 1980 |
Ethnographic fieldwork:
ethnomedicine, community participation
and primary health care; health service research; the commodification of health. North and
South Kanara Districts, Karnataka, India. |
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Affiliation: |
National Institute of Mental
Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka. |
| Jan. 1981-Mar. 1983 |
Development of a clinical
anthropologist role within a psychiatric clinic
Research on clinician-patient communication in a multiethnic clinical setting;
ethnographic research on somatization, the meaning of medication and the useof metaphor in
clinical settings. |
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Affiliation: |
Queens Hospital, Acute care
psychiatric in-patient ward, Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Oct. 1983-Aug. 1984 |
Ethnographic research on the
ethnophysiology of fertility and fertility control, the folk epidemiology of infectious
disease by interpretation of biomedical technology, and anthropological approaches to
health education. |
| May 1985-Aug. 1985 |
Ethnographic research on health
bureaucracy and interactional analysis of PHC staff teamwork, the language of efficacy |
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Affiliation: |
Post Graduate Institute of
Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Bureau of Health Education, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| July-Aug. 1989 |
Ethnographic research on Acute
Respiratory Illness and Measles in Oriental Mindoro, Philippines. |
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Affiliation: |
Regional Institute of Tropical
Medicine |
| Sept.-Dec. 1991 |
Community based ethnographic
research on Tuberculosis |
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Affiliation: |
University of the Philippines
Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine |
June 1991-Aug. 1991
Feb.-May 1992 |
Ethnographic research on
women's work and the household
production of health; pharmaceutical related behavior in South
Kanara, Karnataka, India. |
May-July 1993;
Dec-Jan. 1994,
July-Aug. 1994
July-Aug. 1995
Aug. 1996 |
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Ethnographic research on STD's and AIDS among commercial sex workers:
Perceptions of risk and the experience of vulnerability, prevention and harm
reduction practices in the Philippines. |
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Affiliation: |
Clinical Epidemiology Unit,
University of the Philippines; Cebu
City Health Office, Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
| June 1996-Jul. 1996 |
Injection practices among
non-degree holding medical practitioners in South India and N.E. Thailand. |
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Affiliation: |
Christian Medical College,
Vellore, India, Khon Kaen Medical School, Thailand. |
May 1996
Sept.-Dec1997
May 1998
October 2000 |
Women’s Reproductive and
Sexual Health; Local perceptions of Reproductive Tract Infections and Cervical Cancer;
male responsibility. North East Thailand. |
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Affiliation: |
Mahidol University Center for
Health Policy Studies, Thailand
|
1-2 mos. visits to
India
1980-present |
Twelve short field visits to
South India; research on popular health culture, pharmaceutical behavior, popular
religion, household economics, social change and globalization. |