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Philippe Bourgois

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#78

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#20

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PhD Anthropology Stanford University
Masters Anthropology Stanford University
Bachelors Anthropology Reed College

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According to Wikipedia, Philippe Bourgois is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the founding chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and was the Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania .

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Philippe Bourgois's Published Works

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Published Works

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (1997) (1261)
The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users. (2005) (917)
Structural Vulnerability and Health: Latino Migrant Laborers in the United States (2011) (562)
"Every 'never' I ever said came true": transitions from opioid pills to heroin injecting. (2014) (397)
Disciplining Addictions: The Bio-politics of Methadone and Heroin in the United States (2000) (385)
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (2003) (370)
The moral economies of homeless heroin addicts: confronting ethnography, HIV risk, and everyday violence in San Francisco shooting encampments. (1998) (326)
Hepatitis C virus seroconversion among young injection drug users: relationships and risks. (2002) (325)
Structural Vulnerability: Operationalizing the Concept to Address Health Disparities in Clinical Care (2017) (320)
The Everyday Violence of Hepatitis C Among Young Women Who Inject Drugs in San Francisco. (2004) (298)
The Power of Violence in War and Peace (2001) (253)
Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear (2018) (219)
Violence in war and peace (2004) (199)
Pathologizing poverty: new forms of diagnosis, disability, and structural stigma under welfare reform. (2014) (197)
Structural Violence and Structural Vulnerability Within the Risk Environment: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives for a Social Epidemiology of HIV Risk Among Injection Drug Users and Sex Workers (2011) (197)
In search of masculinity: violence, respect and sexuality among Puerto Rican crack dealers in East Harlem (1996) (194)
Dialogue (2000) (188)
Masculinity and undocumented labor migration: injured latino day laborers in San Francisco. (2004) (171)
Social misery and the sanctions of substance abuse : Confronting HIV risk among homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco (1997) (164)
Social context of work injury among undocumented day laborers in San Francisco (2002) (147)
Crack and the Political Economy of Social Suffering (2003) (128)
Anthropology and epidemiology on drugs: the challenges of cross- methodological and theoretical dialogue (2002) (123)
Assessment of Racial/Ethnic and Income Disparities in the Prescription of Opioids and Other Controlled Medications in California (2019) (116)
Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation (1991) (109)
Reinterpreting Ethnic Patterns among White and African American Men Who Inject Heroin: A Social Science of Medicine Approach (2006) (104)
Explaining the Geographical Variation of HIV Among Injection Drug Users in the United States (2003) (102)
The Growing Popularity of Prescription Opioid Injection in Downtown Montréal: New Challenges for Harm Reduction (2011) (94)
Confronting Anthropological Ethics: Ethnographic Lessons from Central America (1990) (93)
“You can't do nothing in this damn place”: Sex and intimacy among couples with an incarcerated male partner (2005) (90)
Needle exchange, HIV infection, and the politics of science: Confronting Canada's cocaine injection epidemic with participant observation (2000) (89)
The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City (2013) (89)
Ethnic dimensions of habitus among homeless heroin injectors. (2007) (82)
The Price of Adherence: Qualitative Findings From HIV Positive Individuals Purchasing Fixed-Dose Combination Generic HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in Kampala, Uganda (2006) (81)
Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism (2006) (75)
Just Another Night in a Shooting Gallery (1998) (73)
Theory, method, and power in drug and HIV-prevention research: a participant-observer's critique. (1999) (70)
conjugated oppression: class and ethnicity among Guaymi and Kuna banana workers (1988) (66)
Sexual pleasure and sexual risk among women who use methamphetamine: a mixed methods study. (2012) (64)
Violence at the urban margins (2015) (63)
The Challenge of Pregnancy among Homeless Youth: Reclaiming a Lost Opportunity (2010) (62)
Confronting Anthropology, Education, and Inner‐City Apartheid (1996) (59)
Qualitative social research in addictions publishing: Creating an enabling journal environment. (2010) (52)
The good-enough science-and-politics of anthropological collaboration with evidence-based clinical research: Four ethnographic case studies. (2013) (51)
Heroin-related overdose: The unexplored influences of markets, marketing and source-types in the United States. (2015) (51)
Interdisciplinary mixed methods research with structurally vulnerable populations: case studies of injection drug users in San Francisco. (2013) (46)
Urban segregation and the US heroin market: a quantitative model of anthropological hypotheses from an inner-city drug market. (2014) (43)
Acceptability of a safer injection facility among injection drug users in San Francisco. (2010) (42)
The Textures of Heroin: User Perspectives on “Black Tar” and Powder Heroin in Two U.S. Cities (2016) (39)
Drug use patterns in the presence of crack in downtown Montréal. (2012) (38)
Crack in Spanish Harlem: Culture and Economy in the Inner City (1989) (37)
The Violence of Moral Binaries (2002) (36)
Racial/Ethnic, Social, and Geographic Trends in Overdose-Associated Cardiac Arrests Observed by US Emergency Medical Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. (2021) (34)
Drug use generations and patterns of injection drug use: Birth cohort differences among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. (2017) (30)
Ethnography's troubles and the reproduction of academic habitus (2002) (29)
Xylazine Spreads Across the US: A Growing Component of the Increasingly Synthetic and Polysubstance Overdose Crisis (2021) (29)
Intersectional structural vulnerability to abusive policing among people who inject drugs: A mixed methods assessment in california's central valley. (2020) (27)
What U.S. Foreign Policy Faces in Rural El Salvador: An Eyewitness Account (1982) (26)
Lumpen Abuse: The Human Cost of Righteous Neoliberalism. (2011) (26)
Buprenorphine: “Field Trials” of a New Drug (2001) (26)
Class, Ethnicity, and the State Among the Miskitu Amerindians of Northeastern Nicaragua (1981) (25)
Commentary on Genberg et al. (2011): the structural vulnerability imposed by hypersegregated US inner-city neighborhoods--a theoretical and practical challenge for substance abuse research. (2011) (25)
The politics of photographic aesthetics: critically documenting the HIV epidemic among heroin injectors in Russia and the United States (2002) (23)
Structural vulnerability to narcotics-driven firearm violence: An ethnographic and epidemiological study of Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican inner-city (2019) (21)
Decolonising drug studies in an era of predatory accumulation (2018) (20)
Injecting drugs in tight spaces: HIV, cocaine and collinearity in the Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, Canada. (2016) (18)
12. Useless Suffering The War on Homeless Drug Addicts (2019) (18)
Education, empowerment and community based structural reinforcement: an HIV prevention response to mass incarceration and removal. (2011) (16)
Missing the Holocaust: My Father's Account of Auschwitz from August 1943 to June 1944 (2005) (14)
Low-Frequency Heroin Injection among Out-of-Treatment, Street-Recruited Injection Drug Users (2013) (14)
OVERACHIEVEMENT IN THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY: THE LIFE STORY OF A PUERTO RICAN STICK-UP ARTIST IN EAST HARLEM (1997) (14)
The Political Economy of Resistance and Self‐Destruction in the Crack Economy (1995) (13)
HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rican People Who Inject Drugs: Policy Considerations. (2015) (13)
Non-Partner Violence Against Women Who Use Drugs in San Francisco (2014) (13)
Heroin Addict Habit Size in Three Cities: Context and Variation (1998) (13)
The black diaspora in Costa Rica: upward mobility and ethnic discrimination (1986) (13)
Examining the Associations Between Sex Trade Involvement, Rape, and Symptomatology of Sexual Abuse Trauma (2015) (12)
The Miskitu of Nicaragua: Politicized Ethnicity (1986) (12)
In Search of Respect: Contents (2002) (12)
The Structural Violence of Hyperincarceration - A 44-Year-Old Man with Back Pain. (2019) (12)
Ethnicity At Work (1989) (11)
Hope to Die a Dope Fiend (1995) (10)
Differences in time to injection onset by drug in California: Implications for the emerging heroin epidemic. (2018) (10)
The Mystery of Marijuana: Science and the U.S. War on Drugs (2008) (8)
Intimate apartheid (2007) (7)
Interpersonal and Structural Violence in the Wake of COVID-19. (2020) (7)
Science, Religion and the Challenges of Substance Abuse Treatment (2010) (6)
In Search of Respect: Notes (2002) (6)
Nicaragua's Ethnic Minorities in the Revolution (1985) (6)
One Hundred Years of United Fruit Company Letters (2020) (6)
If You're Not Black You're White: A History of Ethnic Relations in St. Louis (1989) (5)
U.S. inner city apartheid and the war on drugs (2004) (5)
An Ethnographic Assessment of COVID-19‒Related Changes to the Risk Environment for People Who Use Drugs in Tijuana, Mexico. (2022) (4)
The introduction of fentanyl on the US-Mexico border: An ethnographic account triangulated with drug checking data from Tijuana. (2022) (4)
Into the Epistemic Void: (2019) (4)
Street Markets, Adolescent Identity, and Violence (2013) (3)
The Political and Emotional Economy of Violence in US Inner City Narcotics Markets (2018) (3)
Factors associated with time to injection initiation among drug injectors (2014) (3)
In Search of Masculinity (2017) (2)
Deported, homeless, and into the canal: Environmental structural violence in the binational Tijuana River (2022) (2)
Theorizing violence in the Americas: A thirty-year ethnographic retrospective (2012) (2)
Hypersegregation and Depacification in the US Inner City: the house, the block, and the war on Drugs (2017) (1)
Everyday Life in Two High-Risk Neighborhoods: Growing Up. (1991) (1)
Client Outreach in Los Angeles County’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program: Strategies and Barriers to Engagement (2020) (1)
[The Habit of Rage in a United States Ghetto.] (2013) (1)
My Child’s Journey Home: Perspectives of Adult Family Members on the Separation and Reunification of the “Disappeared” Children of El Salvador (2019) (1)
Shooting Gallery Notes. Working Paper #22. Preliminary. (1991) (1)
Correlates of recent overdose among people who inject drugs in the San Diego/Tijuana border region. (2022) (1)
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine (2003) (1)
Welcome to an East Harlem Shooting Gallery (2017) (0)
In Search of Respect: Epilogue (2002) (0)
Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 1999 (2000) (0)
In Search of Respect: Conclusion (2002) (0)
Theorizing Violence in the Americas (2012) (0)
In Search of Respect: Violating Apartheid in the United States (2002) (0)
In Search of Respect: Preface to the 2003 Second Edition (2002) (0)
In Search of Respect: Families and Children in Pain (2002) (0)
In Search of Respect: Other books in the series (2002) (0)
In Search of Respect: Bibliography (2002) (0)
Teaching Social Medicine as Collaborative Ethnographic Research and Advocacy on Homelessness and Serious Mental Illness (2019) (0)
In Search of Respect: School Days: Learning to be a Better Criminal (2002) (0)
In Search of Respect: Crackhouse Management: Addiction, Discipline, and Dignity (2002) (0)
Bringing HIV, Substance Abuse and Homelessness into the University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Museum through Photo-Ethnography. (2012) (0)
In Search of Respect: “Goin Legit”: Disrespect and Resistance at Work (2002) (0)
Prevalence and predictors of recent temporary psychiatric hold among a cohort of people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. (2021) (0)
Introduction: Black and White in Color (1989) (0)
10. The Violence of the American Dream in the Segregated US Inner-City Narcotics Markets of the Puerto Rican Colonial Diaspora (2021) (0)
Understanding illicit substance use in the real world (2008) (0)
In Search of Respect: Epilogue 2003 (2002) (0)
In Search of Respect: Vulnerable Fathers (2002) (0)
The Violence of the American Dream in the Segregated US Inner-City Narcotics Markets of the Puerto Rican Colonial Diaspora (2021) (0)
Substance use policy and practice in the COVID-19 pandemic: Learning from early pandemic responses through internationally comparative field data (2022) (0)
Acceptability of a Safer Injection Facility in San Francisco among Injection Drug Users (2010) (0)
A. L. Stoler, Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870-1979 (1987) (0)
NOTE TO DISCUSSANT: I WILL BE PRESENTING A REVISED VERSION OF THIS AND IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY POWERPOINT PHOTOGRAPHS OF MY FIELD SITES. THE POWERPOINTS ARE IN ALL CAPITALS (2007) (0)
Crackdealer in East Harlem (2018) (0)
Caught in the Movement: Knowledge and Field Engagement. Part 1 (2002) (0)
"A lotta people switched playing hard ball to playing Russian roulette": Experiences with rising overdose incidence caused by drug supply changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the San Diego-Tijuana border metroplex. (2023) (0)
Violence, Respect, and Sexuality among Puerto Rican Drug Dealers in East Harlem, New York (2002) (0)
[Pax Narcotica : The Open-Air Drug Markets of Philadelphia's Puerto Rican Inner City]. (2016) (0)
In Search of Respect: Introduction (2002) (0)
MSM , Bisexual and Transgender Populations The Cultural and Relationship Context of HIV among Bisexually Active Black Men and their Female Partners (2013) (0)
Fentanyl, Heroin, and Methamphetamine-Based Counterfeit Pills Sold at Tourist-Oriented Pharmacies in Mexico: An Ethnographic and Drug Checking Study (2023) (0)
Revue européenne des migrations internationales, vol. 18-n°3 | 2002 (2016) (0)
Potency-Enhancing Synthetics in the Drug Overdose Epidemic: Xylazine (“Tranq”), Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, and the Displacement of Heroin in Philadelphia and Tijuana (2022) (0)
In Search of Respect: A Street History of El Barrio (2002) (0)
The Miskitu conflict : CIA incompetence matched by Sandinista reforms and indian pragmatism (1988) (0)
Special Focus on Middle East and North Africa Sponsored by Global Commission on Drug Policy (2016) (0)
In Search of Respect: Redrawing the Gender Line on the Street (2002) (0)

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