Pamela Erickson

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Pamela Erickson is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University at Buffalo, University of Connecticut

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#1633

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#590

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Pamela Erickson's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Pamela Irene Erickson is a medical anthropologist. The holder of both a Dr.P.H and a PhD , she is Professor of Anthropology and Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. A former editor of the scholarly journal Medical Anthropology Quarterly, much of her own research has focused on reproductive health among Hispanic girls and young women. Prominent among the publications resulting from these investigations is her 1998 book, Latina Adolescent Childbearing in East Los Angeles. Erickson has also done fieldwork in Nepal, the Philippines, India, and Ecuador and this work is reflected in her 2008 textbook, Ethnomedicine. A Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, Erickson has also served on the Governing Council of the Family and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association. Additionally, she is co-editor, with Merrill Singer of the book series Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology with Routledge.

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Pamela Erickson's Published Works

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Syndemics, sex and the city: Understanding sexually transmitted diseases in social and cultural context (2006) (335)
Life histories, blood revenge, and reproductive success among the Waorani of Ecuador (2009) (178)
Unwanted sexual experiences among middle and high school youth. (1991) (152)
Global health: Why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter (2011) (132)
Prevalence of anal sex among heterosexuals in California and its relationship to other AIDS risk behaviors. (1995) (82)
Acculturation, Gender Role Orientation, and Reproductive Risk-Taking Behavior among Latina Adolescent Family Planning Clients (2002) (80)
Maximizing Qualitative Responses about Smoking in Structured Interviews (2000) (69)
Condom Use with Serious and Casual Heterosexual Partners: Findings from a Community Venue-Based Survey of Young Adults (2013) (65)
Latina Adolescent Childbearing in East Los Angeles (1998) (48)
Age, gender, and ethnic differences in sexual and contraceptive knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. (1985) (41)
Differences in knowledge of and risk factors for AIDS between Hispanic and non-Hispanic women attending an urban family planning clinic. (1990) (38)
Lessons from a repeat pregnancy prevention program for Hispanic teenage mothers in east Los Angeles. (1994) (31)
Integrating Behavioral and Social Sciences with Public Health (2002) (27)
A Companion to Medical Anthropology (2022) (22)
A Companion to Medical Anthropology: Singer/A Companion to Medical Anthropology (2011) (21)
The influence of male care givers on child health in rural Haiti. (1996) (20)
Bands of brothers and in-laws: Waorani warfare, marriage and alliance formation (2018) (20)
Cultural Factors Affecting the Negotiation of First Sexual Intercourse among Latina Adolescent Mothers (1998) (19)
YOUNG LATINAS AND ABORTION: THE ROLE OF CULTURAL FACTORS, REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR, AND ALTERNATIVE ROLES TO MOTHERHOOD (2001) (18)
Long-term Lyme disease antibiotic therapy beliefs among New England residents. (2011) (17)
Barriers to breast abnormality follow-up: minority, low-income patients' and their providers' view. (2005) (16)
A cultural model of infidelity among African American and Puerto Rican young adults (2011) (15)
Ceremonial tobacco use in the Andes: implications for smoking prevention among indigenous youth (2010) (15)
“And Let Me See Them Damn Papers!” The Role of STI/AIDS Screening Among Urban African American and Puerto Rican Youth in the Transition to Sex Without a Condom (2011) (14)
Medical anthropology and global health. (2003) (13)
The social context and meaning of virginity loss among African American and Puerto Rican young adults in Hartford. (2013) (12)
A Culture of Future Planning (2014) (12)
Latinas and Abortion. (1998) (11)
Contraceptive methods: do Hispanic adolescents and their family planning care providers think about contraceptive methods the same way? (1996) (10)
As the Future Explodes into the Present: Emergent Issues and the Tomorrow of Medical Anthropology (2011) (7)
Sexuality, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health (2011) (5)
Rebranding Our Field? Toward an Articulation of Health Anthropology (2016) (5)
Contraceptive Knowledge and Intentions Among Latina Teenagers Experiencing Their First Birth (1985) (4)
The Proximate Causes of Waorani Warfare (2019) (3)
Editor's Acknowledgments (2004) (3)
Supplementary material from "Bands of brothers and in-laws: Waorani warfare, marriage and alliance formation" (2018) (2)
The sociocultural context of teenage childbearing among Hispanic adolescents in Los Angeles (1993) (1)
The Future of Medical Anthropology: Meeting Global Health Challenges (2009) (1)
Cultural Variations in the Experience of Health and Illness (2022) (0)
TO BREAST ABNORMALITY FOLLOW-UP : MINORITY , LOW-INCOME PATIENTS ’ AND THEIR PROVIDERS (2005) (0)
Environments for Health by John J. Macdonald (2008) (0)
List of Reviewers, July 2005August 2006 (2006) (0)
Impact of incarceration on family formation and stability among marginalized minority youth in the American hyperghetto (2013) (0)
Sexual Scripting: Deconstructing Irrational Sexual "Choices" Among Inner City Young Adults: (681832011-001) (2010) (0)
Condom use among at-risk African American young adults (2013) (0)

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