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| MARK ANDREW NICHTER
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| (520)621-2665 (office) |
Dept. of Anthropology |
| (520)621-2585 (messages) |
University of Arizona |
| (520)621-2088 (FAX: office) |
PO Box 210030-0030 |
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Tucson, AZ 85721-0030 |
| E-mail:mnichter@u.arizona.edu |
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PUBLICATIONS:
Books and Manuals:
| [and Nichter, Mimi] An
anthropological approach to nutrition education. International Nutrition Communication
Service Publications, 1981, Newton, MA: Education Development Center |
| Anthropology and International
Health: South Asian Case Studies, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers:
Holland. 1989. [paper and hardback] |
| Anthropological Approaches to
the Study of Ethnomedicine, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Gordon and Breach Publishers,
1992. Editor of a collection of ten essays and author of a commentary on contemporary
research on ethnomedicine. [paper and hardback] |
| [and Mimi Nichter] Anthropology
and International Health: Asian Case Studies. Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, 1996 (450 pp.). This publication is a much revised 2nd edition of Nichter
(1989, above). Fifty percent of the case studies are different. [paper and hardback] |
| [and Pimpawun Boonmogkon,
Jennifer Pylypa, and Kornkaew Chantapasa] Understanding Women’s Experience of
Gynecological problems: An Ethnographic Case Study from Northeast Thailand. [in English]
Center for Health Policy Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand. 1998. |
| [with Mimi Nichter] Women,
Work, and child welfare: Case Studies from India. Monograph [under review forpublication) |
Articles:
| The joga and maya of the Tuluva
buta. Eastern Anthropologist, 1977, 30 [2], 139-155. |
| Patterns of curative resort and
their significance for health planning in South Asia. Medical Anthropologist, 1978, 2 [2],
29-58. |
| The language of illness in
South Kanara. Anthropos, 1979, 74, 181-201. |
| Democratization of the
community health worker scheme: A plan for reconstruction. Economic and Political Weekly,
1980, XV[1] [abridged version], 37-43. Complete version available through U.S.A.I.D.,
Office of Health, Nutrition, & Population, New Delhi, India. |
| The layperson's perception of
medicine as perspective into the utilization of multiple therapy systems in the Indian
context. Social Science and Medicine, 1980, 14B, 225-233. |
| Negotiation of the illness
experience: The influence of ayurvedic therapy on the psychosocial dimensions of
illness. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 1981, 5, 5-24. |
| Idioms of distress:
Alternatives in the expression of psychosocial distress: A case study from South India.
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 1981, 5, 379-408. |
| Hot/cold conceptualization: A
worldwide reference list of research reporting the hot/cold conceptualization of foods and
illness. International Nutrition Communication Service, 1981. |
| [and Nichter, Mimi] The
ethnophysiology and folk dietetics of pregnancy. Human Organization 42[3], Fall 1983,
235-246. |
| Paying for what ails you:
Sociocultural issues influencing the ways and means of therapy payment in South
India. Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 1983, 957-965. |
| Project Community Diagnosis:
Participatory research as a first step toward community involvement in primary health
care. Social Science and Medicine, Volume 19, No. 3, 237-252, 1984. |
| Toward a "people
near" promotive health within primary health care. Proceedings of the First
International Symposium on Public Health in Asia and the Pacific Basin, School of Public
Health, University of Hawaii Press, 1984. |
| Cultural interpretation of
states of malnutrition among children: A South Indian case study. In A. Bloom [Ed.]
Primary Health Care: The User's Perspective. Medical Anthropology, Vol. 5, 25-48, 1984. |
| [and Nichter, Mimi] The use of
analogy in the communication of promotive health. Proceedings of the First International
Symposium on Public Health in Asia and the Pacific Basin, School of Public Health,
University of Hawaii Press, 1984. |
| [and Trockman, G. and J.
Grippen] Clinical anthropologist as therapy facilitator: Role development and clinician
evaluation in a psychiatric training program. Human Organization, 44(1): 72-79, 1985. |
| Drink Boiled Cooled Water: A
Cultural Analysis of a Health Education Message. Social Science and Medicine. 21(6):
667-69, 1985. |
| [and Nichter, Mimi.] Education
by Appropriate Analogy. Convergence, Journal of Adult Education. August 1986. |
| The Primary Health Center as a
Social System: PHC, Social Status, and the Issue of Teamwork in south Asia. Social
Science and Medicine, September 1986. |
| Cultural Dimensions of Hot-Cold
and Sema in the Sri Lankan Health Culture. In L. Manderson [Ed.] Hot-Cold
Conceptualization: A Reassessment. Special Edition, Social Science and Medicine, 377-387,
1987. |
| [and Nichter, Mimi] Cultural
Notions of Fertility in South Asia and their Impact on Sri Lankan Family Planning
Practices. Human Organization, 46(1): 18-28, 1987. |
| Kyasanur Forest Disease: An
Ethnography of a Disease of Development. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 406-423,
December, 1987. |
| From Aralu to ORS: Sinhalese
Perceptions of Digestion, Diarrhea and Dehydration. Social Science and Medicine, Vol.
27:1, 39-52, 1988. |
| [and Nordstrom, C.] The
Question of Medicine Answering: the Social Relations of Healing in Sri Lanka. Culture,
Medicine and Psychiatry, 1989. |
| [and Kendall, C.] Beyond Child
Survival: Anthropology and International Health in the 1990's. Medical Anthropology
Quarterly 5:3, 195-203, 1991. |
| [and Cartwright, E.] Saving the
Children for the Tobacco Industry. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 5:3, 236-256, 1991. |
| Ethnomedicine: Diverse Trend,
Common Linkages. Medical Anthropology 13:1-2, 137-171, 1991. |
| [and Mimi Nichter] Hype and
Weight. Medical Anthropology 13:249-284, 1991. |
| Diarrhea and Dysentery: Using
Social Science Research to Improve the Quality of Epidemiological Studies, Interventions
and Evaluations of Impact. Reviews of Infectious Diseases 13(S4):265-271, 1991. |
| [and William Ventres, Richard
Reed, and Richard Frankel] Do-Not-Resuscitate Discussions: A Qualitative Analysis. Family
Practice Research Journal 12:2, 157-169, 1992. |
| Social Science Lessons from
Diarrhea Research and their Application for ARI. Human Organization 52:1, 53-67, 1993. |
| [and William Ventres, Richard
Reed, Richard Frankel] Limitation of Medical Care: An Ethnographic Analysis. Journal of
Clinical Ethics 4:2, 134-142, 1993. |
| [and Mimi Nichter] Acute
Respiratory Illness: Popular Health Culture and Mothers Knowledge in the
Philippines. Medical Anthropology 15:1-23, 1994. |
| Ethnographic Studies of Acute
Respiratory Illness and their Management. Introduction to special volume of Medical
Anthropology 15:1-16, 1994. |
| Illness Semantics and
International Health: The Weak Lungs/TB Complex in the Philippines. Social Science and
Medicine 38:5, 649-663, 1994. |
| [and Nancy Vuckovic]
Understanding Medicine Use in the Context of Social Transformation. Nina Etkin and Mike
Tan, eds., In Medicines: Meanings in Context. Hains Pub.: Quezon City, 1994. |
| [and Nancy Vuckovic] Agenda for
an Anthropology of Pharmaceutical Practice. Social Science and Medicine.
39(11):1509-1525, 1994. |
| Vaccinations in the third
world: A consideration of community demand. Social Science and Medicine.
415:617-632, 1995. |
| [and Parker, Sheila, Nichter,
Mimi, Nichter, Mark, Vuckovic, Nancy, Sims, Colette, and Cheryl Ritenbaugh] Body Image and
Weight Concerns among African American and White Adolescent Females: Differences that Make
a Difference. Human Organization Vol. 54, No. 2, Summer 1995. |
| [and Nichter, Mimi, Ritenbaugh,
Cheryl, Nichter, Mark, Vuckovic, Nancy, Aickin, Mikel] Dieting and "Watching"
Behaviors Among Adolescent Females: Report of a Multi-method Study. Journal of Adolescent
Health 17:153-162, 1995. |
| [and Ilya Abellanosa]
Antibiotic Prophylaxis among Commercial Sex Workers in Cebu City, Philippines: Patterns of
Use and Perceptions of Efficacy. Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sept./Oct., pp. 407-412,
1996. |
| Self Medication and STD
Prevention (invited editorial) Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Sept./Oct., pp.
353-356, 1996. |
| [and Gilbert Quintero] The
Semantics of Addiction: Moving Beyond Expert Models to Lay Understandings. Journal
of Psychoactive Drugs 28(3):219-228, 1996. |
| [with Nancy Vuckovic]
Pharmaceutical Practice in the US: Research Agenda for the next decade. Social Science and
Medicine 44(9):1285-1302, 1997. |
| [with Mimi Nichter, Nancy
Vuckovic, Gilbert Quentero, Cheryl Ritenbaugh] Smoking experimentation and initiation
among adolescent girls: Qualitative and Quantitative findings. Tobacco Control. 6:
285-295. 1997. |
| [and Vinay Kamat] Pharmacies,
Self Medication and Pharmaceutical Marketing in Bombay India. Social Science and
Medicine47 (6) 779-794. 1998. |
| [and Fernandez, A. Leontsini,
E. Sherman, C. Chan, A. Reyes, C. Lozano, R. Fuentes, B. Winch P.] Trial of a
Community-based behavioral intervention to decrease infestation of Aedes Aegypti
Mosquitoes in cement Washbasins in El Progresso, Honduras. Acta Tropica. 70: 171-183,
1998. |
| [and Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Jen
Pylypa] Emerging Fears of Cervical Cancer in Northeast Thailand. Anthropology in
Medicine. 6:3, 359-380, 1999. |
| Project Community Diagnosis:
The Role of Participatory Research in Primary Health Care, in Robert Hahn (ed.)
Anthropology in Public and International Health. Oxford University Press. 1999. |
| [and Pimpawun Boonmongkon , Jen
Pylypa ] Emerging Fears of Cervical Cancer in Northeast Thailand. Anthropology and
Medicine. 6(3): 359-380. 1999. |
| [and Remi Devi Saradamma, Nick
Higgenbotham] Social Factors influencing the acquisition of antibiotics without a
prescription in Kerala State, South India. Social Science and Medicine. 50:891-903, 2000. |
| [and William Shadel, Saul
Shiffman, Raymond Niaura and David B. Adams] Current Models Of Nicotine Dependence: What
Is Known And What Is Needed To Advance Understanding Of Tobacco Etiology Among Youth. Drug
and Alcohol Dependence 59(1): S9-S21, 2000.] |
| [and M. Lakshman] Contamination
of medicine Injection Paraphernalia Used by Registered Medical Practitioners in South
India: An Ethnographic Study. Social Science and Medicine. 51: 11-28. 2000. |
| [and Shally Awasth and V.K.
Pande] Developing an Interactive STD-Prevention Program for Youth: Lessons from a North
Indian Slum. Studies in Family Planning. 31(2):138-150. 2000. |
Book Chapters:
| Toward a culturally responsive
rural health care system in India. In R. Gupta [Ed.] Main currents in Indian sociology:
Social and cultural context of medicine in India [vol. 4]. South Carolina: South Carolina
Press, 1981, 223-236. |
| [and Nichter, M.] Education by
appropriate analogy: New emphasis on an old approach to health education. In R.Israel
[ed.], Case Studies in Innovative Health Education.Newton, MA: Education Development
Center, 1982. |
| [and B. Buck, D. L. Kincaid,
and M. Nichter] Development communication in the cultural context: Convergence theory and
community participation. In W. Dissanayake and Abdul Rahman b Mohd Said [eds.]
Communication Research and Cultural Values. Singapore: AMIC Publications, 1983. |
| [and L. Nichter and R. Morgan]
The impact of Indian methods for total nasal reconstruction. Clinics in Plastic Surgery,
Volume 10, No. 4, October 1983. |
| [and Nichter, L. et al.]
External Cranioplasty: Historical Perspectives. Clinics in Plastic Surgery, 325-332, 1986.
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| Modes of food classification
and the diet-health contingency: A South Indian case study. In R. Khare and K. Ishvaran
[eds.], Aspects of Food Systems in South Asia, Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic
Press, 185-221, 1986. |
| [and N. Rizvi] A Negotiation
Approach to Nutrition Education. In R. Israel [Ed.] Communication Answers to Nutrition
Problems in Developing Countries. International Nutrition Communication Service, 1986. |
| [and Nichter, M.] A Tale of
Simeon: Reflections on raising a child while conducting fieldwork in rural South India. In
J. Cassell [ed.] Family Album: Anthropological fieldwork with children, Temple University
Press, 1987. |
| Vaccinations in South Asia:
False Expectations and Commanding Metaphors, in J. Coreil and Dennis Mull (eds.)
Anthropology and Primary Health Care, Westwood Press, 1990 |
| Preface: Training Manual in
Applied Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Publication, 1992, pp.
1-15. |
| Of Ticks, Kings, Spirits and
the Promise of Vaccines, in Charles Leslie and Alan Young (eds.), Continuity and Change in
Asian Medical Systems. 1992. |
| [and Gilbert Quintero]
Pluralistic Health Care Arenas. In The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. 1996. |
| Male Responsibility and
Women’s sexual Health: Considering Women and Men Together, in Pimpawun Boonmogkon and
Anjano Suvarnonando (eds.) Community based Programs for adolescent Sexual Health and
Domestic Violence against Women. Center for Health Policy Studies, Maidol University,
Thailand 1997 pp. 9-15. |
| Illness Semantics and
International Health: The Weak Lungs/TB Complex in the Philippines, in Marcia Inhorn and
Peter Brown (eds.) Anthropology and Infectious Disease. Gordon and Breach Publishers 1997.
pp. 267-298. |
| [and Vinay Kamat] Monitoring
Product Movement: Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives in Bombay, India in Sara Bennet, B.
McPhake and A. Mills (eds.) Private Health Providers in Developing Countries: Serving
Whose Interests? Zone Publishers.1997 pp. 124-140. |
| The Mission Within the Madness:
Self-Initiated Medicalization as Expression of Agency, in Margaret Lock and Patricia
Kaufert (eds.) Pragmatism in action: Women Responding to Technology, Cambridge University
Press 1998. pp. 327-353. |
Guest Editor of
Special Journal Issues
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Recent Trends in Ethnomedicine,
Medical Anthropology, 13(1-2). 1991 |
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Contemporary Issues of
Anthropology in International Health,
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, (with Carl Kendall) 5:3, 1991 |
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Acute Respiratory Illness:
Social Science Perspectives, (with Mark Steinhof). Medical Anthropology Vol. 15, 1994. |
Manuscripts in Press
and Submitted for Publication
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India and the Political Ecology
of Health: Indigestion as Sign and Symptom of Defective Modernization In Linda Connor and
Geoffrey Samuel (eds.) Healing Powers: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism and Science In
Contemporary Asia. Greenwood Press [In Press] |
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Vulnerability, Prophylactic
Antibiotic Use, Harm reduction and the misguided appropriation of Medical Resources: The
case of STD’S in Southeast Asia . In Carla Obermeyer (ed).Culture and Reproductive
Health. Oxford University Press [In Press] |
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[and Pimpawun Boonmongkon , Jen
Pylypa ] Women’s "Mot Luuk" Problems In Northeast Thailand: Why
Women’s Own Health Concerns Matter As Much As Disease Rates Social Science and
Medicine. [In Press] |
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Manuscripts
under Review
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Feschrift in Honor of
Charles Leslie. I am currently editing an eleven chapter volume of essays on
medical anthropology with Margaret Lock. This volume is in its final stages of
preparation. A contract has been signed with Gordon and Breach Publishers and a
publishing date has been set between November 2001-Feb 2002. Within this volume, I
am conbributing a chapter entitled The Social Relations of Therapy Management. |
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{with Melanie Wakefield, Brian
Flay, and Gary Giovino} Role of Media in Influencing Trajectories of Youth Smoking.
Submitted to Drug and Alcohol Dependence. |
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{with Mimi Nichter} Do Young
women Smoke to Control Their Weight? Results of a Longitudinal Study. To
be submitted to Journal for Research on Adolescence. |
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{with Mimi Nichter and David
Van Sickle}: Tobacco Consumption Among Youth in South India. To be submitted
to Tobacco Control. |
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