Selected Publications by Peter J. Brown
Books
Applying Anthropology: Introductory Readings. McGraw-Hill. First published in 1989, currently in 9th edition (with A. Podolefsky)
Applying Cultural Anthropology: Introductory Readings. McGraw-Hill. First published in 1991, currently in 8th edition) (with A. Podolefsky)
The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives. (1997) (with M. Inhorn) New York: Gordon and Breach Publishers.
Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology. (1998, 2nd ed. 2009) Mayfield; McGraw Hill (2nd ed: with R. Barrett)
Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda. (2004) R. Packard, P. Brown, R. Berkelman, H. Frumkin (eds) Johns Hopkins University Press
Articles
1980 The Trial of Sanapia: A Teaching Aid for Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Newsletter 11(4):9.
1981 Cultural Adaptations to Endemic Malaria in Sardinia. Medical Anthropology 5(4):311-339.
1981 New Considerations on the Distribution of Malaria, Thalassemia, and Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency in Sardinia. Human Biology 53:367-382.
1981 The Republic of Haiti: A Cultural Summary. International Disaster Response Project. Centers for Disease Control. (mimeo)
1981 Inadvertent Field Site Duplication: Case Studies and Comments on the `My-Tribe' Syndrome. Current Anthropology 22(3):413-414.
1983 Socioeconomic and Demographic Effects of Disease Control: the case of Malaria Eradication in Sardinia. Medical Anthropology, 7(2): 63-87
1983 Introduction: Anthropology and Disease Control. Medical Anthropology 7(2):1-7
1983 Malaria in Nuragic, Punic and Roman Sardinia: some hypotheses. In Studies in Sardinian Archaeology I. pp. 209-235. M.S. Balmuth and R.J. Rowland,(eds) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
1985 Agricultural Development and the Quality of Life: An Anthropological View. Agriculture and Human Values. Volume 2 (with P. Barlett).
1986 Socioeconomic and Demographic Effects of Malaria Eradication: A Comparison of Sri Lanka and Sardinia. Social Science and Medicine 22(8):847-859
1986 Cultural and Genetic Adaptations to Malaria: Problems of Comparison. Human Ecology 14:311-332.
1986 Convergence and Divergence: One View of the Relationship of Anthropology and Sociology. Semaphore 10(3):4.
1987 Microparasites and Macroparasites. Cultural Anthropology, 2:155-171.
1987 An Anthropological Perspective on Obesity. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, (Human Obesity) #499:29-46. (with M. Konner)
1990 Disease, Ecology, and Human Behavior. In Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method. T. Johnson and C. Sargent (eds). New York: Praeger Scientific. Pp. 187-214 (with M. Inhorn). Revised for 2nd edition, 1996 (with M.Inhorn and D. Smith)
1990 Malaria, Miseria, e Antropologia Medica. Quaderni Bolotanesi 16:53-69 (in Italian)
1990 Culture, Ethnicity and Behavior and the Practice of Medicine. In An Introduction to Human Behavior for Medical Students. A. Stoudemire (ed), pp. 31-48. New York: J.B. Lippincott Publishers (with B. Ballard). Revised in 2nd (1994) and 3rd (1998) editions (with B. Ballard and J Gregg)
1990 The Anthropology of Infectious Disease. Annual Review of Anthropology 19:89-117 (with M. Inhorn)
1991 Anthropological Aspects of Obesity. In Obesity. B.N. Brodoff and P. Bjorntorp (eds). pp. 31-48. New York: J. B. Lippincott.
1991 Culture and the Evolution of Obesity. Human Nature 2:31-57.
1991 Disease and Depopulation: Speculations on the Demographic Impact of the Introduction of Malaria to Ancient Sardinia. British Archaeological Reports
1992 Cultural Factors in the Etiology and Treatment of Obesity. In A.J. Stunkard and T. Wadden (eds) Obesity: Its Causes and Management New York: Raven Press pp.179-193.
1992 Is Fission the Future of Anthropology? Ideas in Anthropology Vol.33, 7:1-21 (with N. Yoffee)
1993 Favism. In The Cambridge World History of Human Disease, K.F. Kiple (ed) New York: Cambridge University Press, chapter VIII.53, pp 722-724
1994 Health Implications of Modern Agricultural Transformations: Malaria and Pellagra in Italy. Human Organization 53:346-351. (with E Whitaker)
1997 Culture, Evolution, and Obesity. In Bray, G.A., C. Bouchard, P. James (eds) Handbook of Obesity pp. 143-155. (with V Bentley-Condit)
1997 Introduction: Anthropologies of Infectious Disease. In The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives. Pp 3-31 M. C. Inhorn and P.J. Brown, Eds) Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach (with M Inhorn)
1997 Culture and the Global Resurgence of Malaria. In The Anthropology of Infectious Disease. Pp119-144 M.C. Inhorn and PJ Brown (eds). NY: Gordon and Breach.
1997 Malaria, Miseria, and Underpopulation in Sardinia: the “Malaria Blocks Development” Cultural Model. Medical Anthropology 18:239-254
1997 Rethinking Health, Development, and Malaria: Historicizing a Cultural Model in International Health. Medical Anthropology 18: 181-194 (with R M. Packard)
1997 Reconstructing the Ancient History of Malaria in Sardinia: A Biocultural Approach. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Anthropology and History of Health and Disease, Genoa, Italy (on CD ROM)
1998 Medical Anthropologies: An Introduction to the Fields. In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology. Pp 10-17 (P. J. Brown, editor) Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing. (with R. Barrett and M. Padilla)
1998 Multiple entries In The Blackwell Dictionary of Anthropology. T.J. Barfield (Ed). London: Blackwell. (1) Disease. Pp 122-123; (2) Medical Anthropology (with K. Hatfield-Timajchy, and J. Hu) Pp 316-318; (3) Illness. (with K. Hatfield-Timajchy) Pp 256-257; (4) Epidemics (with T. McDade) Pp150-151; (5) Medical Systems. (with K. Hatfield-Timajchy) Pp 318-320.
1999 Failure-as-Success: Multiple Meanings of Eradication in the Rockefeller Foundation Sardinia Project, 1946-1951. Parassitologia 40:117-130
2000 "Friendship" interactions and expression of agitation among residents of a dementia care unit: Six-month observational data. Research on Aging. 22: 188-205. (authors: Kutner, Brown, Stavisky, Clark, & Green)
2001 The Etiology of Obesity: Diet, Television and the Illusions of Personal Choice. In Obesity, Growth and Development. F.E. Johnston and G.D. Foster (eds) London: Smith Gordon Publishers, International Association for Human Auxology, No. 3) (with S. Krick) Pp 111-127
2002 The Body as Evidence; The Body of Evidence. In The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemispher. R.H. Steckel and J.C. Rose (eds) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 593-602. (with G Armelagos)
2004 Emerging Illnesses as Social Process: Epidemiology, Communities of Suffering, and the Responses of Public Health Institutions. Pp 1-35 In Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda. R. Packard, P. Brown, R. Berkelman, H. Frumkin (eds) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (authors: R. Packard, P. Brown, R. Berkelman, H. Frumkin)
2005 Evolutionary, historical and political economic perspectives on health and disease. Social Science and Medicine 61: 755-765 (with G Armelagos and B Turner)
2008 Stigma in the Time of Influenza: Social and Institutional Responses to Pandemic Emergencies. Journal of Infectious Diseases 197:S34-37. (with R. Barrett)