Susan L. Erikson, PhD

Medical Anthropology of Global Health

 

Publications                       *Graduate student for whom I was senior supervisor

(Accepted and forthcoming) Secrets from Whom? Following the Money in Global Health Finance, Special Issue: Wenner-Gren Symposium Series published in Current Anthropology. Lenore Manderson, Mark Davis, and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, editors. Expected December 2015 56(S12) .

 

(Accepted and forthcoming) Market Logics:  Global Health Futures, Foundations, and Funds in Metrics: What Counts in Global Health, edited by Vincanne Adams. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Expected 2016.

 

Erikson, Susan L. Global Health Indicators and Maternal Health Futures: The Case of IntraUterine Growth Restriction. Global Public Health: An International Journal for

Research, Policy and Practice 10(10):1157-1171. DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2015.1034155.

 

Erikson, Susan L. and Claire Wendland  2014 Exclusionary Practice: Medical Schools and Global Health Clinical Electives. Student BMJ. 5 June.

 

Sargent, Carolyn and Susan L. Erikson.  2014 Hospitals as Sites of Cultural Confrontation and Integration.  In European States and Their Muslim Citizens: The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions and Boundaries, John R Bowen, Christophe Bertossi, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Mona Lena Krook, eds. Pp. 29-53.  Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

 

Jamine Kastner*, Lynn T. Matthews, Ninsiima Flavia, Francis Bajunirwe, Susan Erikson, Nicole Berry, Angela Kaida  2014 Antiretroviral therapy helps HIV-positive women navigate social expectations for childbearing and clinical recommendations against childbearing in Uganda. AIDS Research and Treatment, Sep 18, doi:  10.1155/2014/626120.

 

Anna Lucia Carolsfeld* and Susan L. Erikson 2013 Beyond Desperation: Motivations for Dumpster Diving for Food in Vancouver, Food and Foodways 21 (4): 245-266.

 

Kiggins, Elizabeth* and Susan L. Erikson  2013 'No Food in the House': Policy Ambiguity, Inaction, and Food Insecurity.  Community Development 48(4): 623-638.

 

Erikson, Susan L.  2012 Global Health Business: The Production and Performativity of Statistics in Sierra Leone and Germany.  Medical Anthropology, Special Issue: Enumeration, Identity, and Health, 32(4):367-384.

Erikson, Susan L.  2012 Social Embodiments: Prenatal Risk in Postsocialist Germany.  Anthropologica 54(1):83-94.

Dell, Evelyn M., Susan L. Erikson, Eddy Andrianirina, and Gabrielle Smith 2012 Women’s Knowledge in Madagascar: A Health Needs Assessment Study.  Global Public Health 7(1):29-41.

Erikson, Susan L.  2011 Global Ethnography: Problems of Theory and Method.  In Globalization, Reproduction, and the State. Carole C. H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds. Pp. 23-37. Durham: Duke University Press.

Erikson, Susan L. 2008 Getting Political: Fighting for Global Health.  The Lancet 371(9620):1229-1230.

Erikson, Susan L.  2008 Ultraschall und Kulturen des Risikos [Ultrasound and Cultures of Risk]. GID: Gen-ethischer Informationsdienst [Genetic Ethics Intelligence] 188 Juni: 11-13. In German.

Borrmann, Brigitte, Beate Schücking, and Susan Erikson  2008  Reproductive Health. In Encyclopedia of Public Health.  Wilhelm Kirsch, ed.  Pp. 1254-1256. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.

Erikson, Susan L. 2008  German Model For U.S. Reform? Think Again.  Response to Tsung-Mei Cheng  and Uwe E. Reinhardt, Shepherding Major Health System Reforms: A Conversation With German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt.  Health Affairs 27(3): w204-w213, at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/eletters/27/3/w204.

Erikson, Susan L.  2008  Wer sucht, der findet: Die Überproduktion von Risiko: Deutsche Ultraschallpraxis in der Schwangerschaft.  [Seek and Ye Shall Find: German Ultrasound Praxis in Pregnancy] Da stimmt doch was nicht... [Something is not quite right...]. Pp. 44-47. Düsseldorf, Germany: Bundesverband für Körper- und Mehrfachbehinderte e.V.  In German.

Erikson, Susan L.  2007  Fetal Views: Histories and Habits of Prenatal Technology in Germany.  Journal of Medical Humanities 28(4):187–212.

Erikson, Susan L.  2007  Global Health: Diagnoses and Prescriptions. Foreign Affairs 86(3):168-169. (Linked http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/62268/laurie-garrett/the-challenge-of-global-health)

Erikson, Susan L., with Amy Colo  2006 Risks, Costs and Effects of Homebirth Midwifery Legislation in CO. In Mainstreaming Midwifery: The Politics of Change. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Christina Johnson-Levitin, eds. Pp. 289-309. New York, NY: Routledge.

Erikson, Susan L.  2005 "Now It Is Completely the Other Way Around": Political Economies of Fertility in Re-Unified Germany.  In Barren States: The Population Implosion in Europe.  Carrie Douglass, ed. Pp. 49-71. London, England: Berg Press.

Douglass, Carrie B., with Rebecca Nash, Susan L. Erikson, and Anna Lim  2005 Introduction. In Barren States: The Population Implosion in Europe.  Carrie Douglass, ed. Pp. 1-28. London, England: Berg Press.

Erikson, Susan L.  2003 Post-Diagnostic Abortion in Germany. Social Science and Medicine 56:1987-2001.

Erikson, Susan L.  2003  Smoking and Pregnancy: The Politics of Fetal Protection. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17(4): 504-6. 

Erikson, Susan L.  2001 Maternity Care Policies and Maternity Care Practices: A Tale of Two Germanys. In Birth by Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care, and Midwifery in North America and Europe. Raymond Devries, Edwin van Teijlingen, Sirpa Wrede, and Cecilia Benoit, eds. Pp. 203-217. New York: Routledge.