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Kathryn S. Oths (PhD Case Western Reserve, 1991) is a medical anthropologist with an area
specialization in Latin America. Her interests include: comparative
medical systems and treatment decision making; traditional and alternative
healers, health beliefs, and health behaviors; reproductive health; gender,
ethnicity, and health; and, public health. Her work has been conducted
using a combination of traditional anthropological methods and quantitative
research designs. Oths has carried out research on practitioner-patient
interactions in a chiropractic clinic, health seeking behavior in highland Peru,
the social value of food in Brazil, psychosocial factors in low birth weight in
the southern United States, and domestic violence.
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Selected Publications
In press Bonesetters: A
Cross-Cultural Primer for Manual Medicine Walnut Creek: Altamira Press. (edited
by Oths, Kathryn S. and Servando Hinojosa) View the
Table of Contents
In
press Prenatal Predictors of Intimate Partner Abuse. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing
(with Linda L. Dunn).
In press Social
status and food preferences in
southeast
Brazil
. Ecology of Food and Nutrition (with Adriana
Carolo and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos)
2002. Setting
it straight in the Andes: Musculoskeletal distress and the role of
the componedor. In Medical Pluralism in the Andes: Theory and Practice in
Medical Anthropology and International Health.
Joan D. Koss-Chioino, Thomas
Leatherman and Christine Greenway, eds. Pp. 63-91. London: Routledge.
2001. A prospective
study of psychosocial job strain and birth outcomes. Epidemiology 12(6):744-746.
(with Linda L. Dunn and Nancy S. Palmer)
2001. Socioeconomic factors and adult
body composition in a developing society. Revista
Brasileira de Hipertensão. 8: 173-178.
(with Dos-Santos, JE and WW
Dressler)
2000. Partner support and
pregnancy wantedness. Birth. 27(2):112-119. (with Charlan Kroelinger)
2000. Seeking early care: The
role of prenatal advocates. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14(2):127-137. (
with Carla Winston)
1999. Debilidad: A biocultural assessment of an embodied Andean illness.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13(3)286-315.
1998. Assessing variation in health status in the Andes: A biocultural model.
Social Science and Medicine 47(8): 1017-1030.
1997. Cultural determinants of
health behavior, pp. 359-378. In Handbook of Health Behavior
Research, Vol. 1: Determinants of Health Behavior: Personal and Social, David S.
Gochman, Ed., Plenum Press. (with William W. Dressler)
1995. Ecological and macrolevel influences on illness in
Northern Peru: Beyond the international health paradigm, pp. 107-129. In: Culture, Society, and Medicine: International Perspectives.
Gallagher, Eugene and Janardan Subedi, eds. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
1994. Health care decisions of households in economic
crisis: An example from the Peruvian highlands. Human Organization
53(3): 245-254.
1994. Communication in a chiropractic clinic: How a D.C.
treats his patients. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry 18:
83-113.
1992. Unintended therapy: Psychotherapeutic aspects of
chiropractic, pp. 85-123. In: Ethnopsychiatry: The Cultural
Construction of Professional and Folk Psychiatries, Gaines, Atwood D., ed., Albany,
New York: State University of New York Press.
1991. Some symbolic dimensions of Andean materia
medica. Central Issues in Anthropology 10:76-85.
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