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Mark Nichter, PhD

Recent Publications

Nichter M, Thompson JJ, The Use of Dietary Supplements in the USA: A call for ethnographic research. In Nathan Greenslit(ed) Pharmaceutical Cultures: Marketing Drugs and Changing Lives in the U.S. Cambridge University Press. [In press}.

Caspi O, Sechrest L, Pitluk HC, Marshall CL, Bell IR, Nichter M. On the definition of complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine: societal mega-stereotypes vs. the patients' perspectives. Altern Ther Health Med. 2003 Nov-Dec;9(6):58-62.

Nichter M. Lessons from Anthropological Research on Risk, Responsibility and Harm Reduction in Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks (eds.), Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame. Greenwood Press, 2003.

Nichter M. Smoking: What's Culture Got to Do With It? Addiction 98, Suppl 1, 139-145, 2003.

Nichter M, Lock M. (ed.). New Horizons in Medical Anthropology. Routledge Press. 2002.

Nichter M. 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, 2001. pp. 101-127.

Nichter M, Kamat V. Pharmacies, Self Medication and Pharmaceutical Marketing in Bombay India. Social Science and Medicine 47 (6) 779-794,1998.

Nichter M. 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.

Nichter M. Illness Semantics and International Health: The weak lungs/TB complex in the Philippines. In Marcia Inhorn and Peter Brown (eds.), Anthropology and Infectious Disease. New York: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1997.

Nichter M. Project Community Diagnosis: The role of participatory research in primary health care. In Robert Hahn (ed.), Anthropology in Public and International Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Nichter M, Vuckovic N. Pharmaceutical Practice in the U.S.: Research agenda for the next decade. Social Science and Medicine, 4419, 1285-1302, 1997.

Nichter M, Quintero G, Pluralistic Health Care Arenas. In The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. 1996

Nichter Mark, Nichter Mimi. Anthropology and International Health: Asian Case Studies. New York: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1996.

Nichter M, Vuckovic N. Agenda for an Anthropology of Pharmaceutical Practice. Social Science and Medicine 39(11):1509-1525, 1994.

Nichter, M. Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicine, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1992 [paper and hardback]

Nichter, M. Ethnomedicine: Diverse Trend, Common Linkages. Medical Anthropology 13:1-2, 137-171, 1991.

Nichter M, Trockman G, Grippen J. Clinical anthropologist as therapy facilitator: Role development and clinician evaluation in a psychiatric training program. Human Organization, 44(1): 72-79, 1985.

Nichter, M. Negotiation of the illness experience: The influence of ayurvedic therapy on the psychosocial dimensions of illness. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 1981, 5, 5-24.

Nichter, M. 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.