Books
Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter. University of Arizona Press. Spring 2008 ( reprinted 3 times )
Selected Articles (see CV for others)
[Megan Prescott and Mark Nichter]. Transnational nurse migration: future directions for anthropological research. Social Science & Medicine. Social Science & Medicine 107: 113–123, 2014.
[G.K. Mini, Mark Nichter, R.R. Nair, and K.R. Thankappan]. Confirmation of self-reported non-smoking status by salivary cotinine among diabetes patients in Kerala, India. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health. Available online 11 June 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.cegh.2014.05.003.
[Emery R. Eaves, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Mark Nichter, Allison Hopkins, and Karen J. Sherman]. Modes of Hoping: Understanding hope and expectation in the context of a clinical trial of complementary and alternative medicine for chronic pain. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing 10(4): 225–232, 2014.
[Elyse R. Park, Joanna Streck, Ilana Gareen, Jamie Ostroff, .Kelly Hyland, Hannah Pajolek, Nancy Rigotti, Mark Nichter]. A qualitative of lung cancer risk perceptions and smoking beliefs among national lung screening trial participants. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 16(2): 166–173, 2014.
[Myra L. Muramoto, John R. Hall, Mark Nichter, Mimi Nichter, Mikel Aickin, Tim Connolly, Eva Matthews, Jean Campbell, and Harry Lando]. Activating lay health influencers to promote tobacco cessation. American Journal of Health Behavior 38(3): 392–403, 2014.
[G.K. Mini, K.R. Thankappan, and Mark Nichter]. Does increased knowledge of risk and complication of smoking on diabetes affect quit rate? Findings from a randomized controlled trial in Kerala, India. Tobacco Use Insights 7: 27–30, 2014.
[Thankachi Yamini Ganesh Kumar, Thankappan R. Kavumpurath, and Mark Nichter]. Introducing a Fully Integrated Tobacco Curriculum & Tobacco Cessation Skills in Medical Colleges. Respiratory Medicine 107(Suppl 1): S18, 2013.
[K.R. Thankappan, T.R. Yamini, G.K. Mini, C. Arthur, P. Sairu, K. Leelamoni, M. Sani, B. Unnikrishnan, S.R. Basha, Mark Nichter for the Project Quit Tobacco International]. Assessing the readiness to integrate tobacco control in medical curriculum: Experiences from five medical colleges in South India. The National Medical Journal of India 26(1): 18–23, 2013.
Mark Nichter. The Rise and Transformation of Evidence-Based Medicine. In E. Liebow, V.R. Dominguez, P.N. Peregrine, T.L. McCarty, Mark Nichter, B. Nardi, and J. Leeman, On Evidence and the Public Interest. American Anthropologist 115(4): 642–655, 2013.
Mark Nichter. One man’s dream, another man’s cosmology. Anthropology and Humanism 38(1): 1–18, 2013.
[K.R. Thankappan, G.K. Mini, M. Daivadanam, G. Vijayakumar, P.S. Sarma, and Mark Nichter]. PP034 Feasibility of disease centered smoking cessation among diabetes patients. Respiratory Medicine, 107(Suppl. 1): S16, 2013.
[Kerstin M. Reishcmidt, Jenny Chong, and Mark Nichter]. Monitoring shifts in social relations among chronically ill Mexican Americans as a culturally sensitive indicator of depression. Practicing Anthropology 35(3): 33–37, 2013.
[K.R. Thankappan, G.K. Mini, Meena Daivadanam, G. Vijayakumar, P.S. Sarma, and Mark Nichter]. Smoking Cessation among Diabetes Patients: Results of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial in Kerala, India. BMC Public Health 13: 47, 2013.
[Kim Kelly and Mark Nichter]. The politics of local biology in transnational drug testing: creating (bio)identities and reproducing (bio)nationalism through Japanese “Ethno-bridging” studies. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 6(3): 379–399, 2012.
[Priscilla Magrath and Mark Nichter]. Paying for performance and the social relations of health care provision: an anthropological perspective. Social Science & Medicine 75(10):1778–1785, 2012.
[K.G. Deepak, M. Daivadanam, A.S. Pradeepkumar, G.K. Mini, K.R. Thankappan, and Mark Nichter]. Smokeless tobacco use among patients with tuberculosis in Karnataka: The need for cessation services. National Medical Journal of India 25(3): 142–145, 2012.
Kim Kelly and Mark Nichter. The politics of local biology in transnational drug testing: creating (bio)identities and reproducing (bio)nationalism through Japanese “Ethno-bridging” studies. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 6(3): 379–399, 2012.
Priscilla Magrath and Mark Nichter] Paying for performance and the social relations of health care provision: an anthropological perspective. Social Science & Medicine 75(10):1778–1785, 2012.
K.G. Deepak, M. Daivadanam, A.S. Pradeepkumar, G.K. Mini, K.R. Thankappan, and Mark Nichter. Smokeless tobacco use among patients with tuberculosis in Karnataka: The need for cessation services. National Medical Journal of India 25(3): 142–145, 2012.
Mark Nichter. Idioms of Distress Revisited. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 34(2): 401–416, 2010.
Articles in press
[Mark Nichter and Melanie Medeiros]. Critical anthropology for global health: What can it contribute to critical health psychology. Chapter in Critical Health Psychology, second ed. Michael Murry, ed. Palgrave. In Press.
[Emery R. Eaves, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Mark Nichter, Elizabeth Sutherland, and Sam Dworkin]. Works of Illness and Paradoxes Confronting TMD Patients. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. In Press.
[Jennifer Jo Thompson and Mark Nichter]. Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the US Health Insurance Reform Debate: An Anthropological Assessment Is Warranted. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. In Press.
[K.R. Thankappan, G.K. Mini, Meenu Hariharan, G. Vijayakumar, P.S. Sarma, and Mark Nichter]. Smoking Cessation among Diabetes Patients in Kerala, India: One Year Follow-up Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Diabetes Care. In Press.
[Amy Dao and Mark Nichter]. The Social Life of health Insurance in Low- to Middle-Income Countries: An Anthropological Research Agenda. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. In Press.