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Robert Bartholomew

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PhD Sociology University of Auckland
Masters Sociology University of Auckland
Bachelors Sociology University of Auckland

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Emerson Bartholomew is an American medical sociologist, journalist and author living in New Zealand. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. In addition to publishing more than 60 academic papers, he has written or co-written 16 popular science and skeptical non-fiction books. He writes for several newspapers and journals on sociological and fringe science topics, including Psychology Today, Skeptical Inquirer, and British magazines The Skeptic and Fortean Times.

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Robert Bartholomew's Published Works

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Protean nature of mass sociogenic illness: from possessed nuns to chemical and biological terrorism fears. (2002) (167)
Science for sale: the rise of predatory journals (2014) (128)
Mass psychogenic illness and the social network: is it changing the pattern of outbreaks? (2012) (45)
UFO abductees and contactees: Psychopathology or fantasy proneness? (1991) (44)
Tarantism, dancing mania and demonopathy: the anthro-political aspects of ‘mass psychogenic illness’ (1994) (33)
Disease, Disorder, or Deception? Latah as Habit in a Malay Extended Family (1994) (33)
The Social Psychology of 'Epidemic' Koro (1994) (31)
Epidemic Hysteria in Schools: An International and Historical Overview. (1996) (24)
A Social-Psychological Theory of Collective Anxiety Attacks: The “Mad Gasser” Reexamined (2004) (24)
Ethnocentricity and the social construction of ‘mass hysteria’ (1990) (23)
Pokémon contagion: photosensitive epilepsy or mass psychogenic illness? (2001) (20)
Occupational Mass Psychogenic Illness: A Transcultural Perspective (2000) (18)
Exotic Deviance: Medicalizing Cultural Idioms-From Strangeness to Illness (2000) (18)
The Medicalization of Exotic Deviance: A Sociological Perspective on Epidemic Koro (1998) (13)
The Paris terror attacks, mental health and the spectre of fear (2016) (13)
nuns to chemical and biological terrorism fears Protean nature of mass sociogenic illness : From possessed (2002) (11)
The South African Monoplane Hysteria: An Evaluation of the Usefulness of Smelser's Theory of Hysterical Beliefs* (1989) (10)
The Quest for Transcendence: An Ethnography of UFOs in America (1991) (10)
Religious Devoutness Construed as Pathology: the Myth of 'Religious Mania' (1998) (8)
The medicalization of the exotic: Latah as a colonialism‐bound “syndrome” (1997) (8)
Epidemic hysteria in Virginia: the case of the phantom gasser of 1933-1934. (1999) (6)
Mass Hysteria in Schools: A Worldwide History Since 1566 (2014) (6)
Challenging the diagnosis of ‘Havana Syndrome’ as a novel clinical entity (2019) (6)
Public health, politics and the stigma of mass hysteria: lessons from an outbreak of unusual illness (2016) (6)
Neurological Symptoms in US Government Personnel in Cuba. (2018) (6)
Mutilation Mania—The Witch Craze Revisited: An Essay Review of An Alien Harvest (1992) (5)
Beware the medicalisation of deviance in Russia: remembering the lessons of history (2014) (5)
Epidemic Hysteria: A Dialogue with François Sirois (1997) (5)
Dancing with Myths: The Misogynist Construction of Dancing Mania (1998) (4)
When the consequences of beliefs are defined as psychiatric entities. (1994) (4)
Chasing ghosts in Cuba: Is mass psychogenic illness masquerading as an acoustical attack? (2018) (4)
The Conspicuous Absence of a Single Credible Case of Latah-Related Death or Serious Injury (1999) (3)
How Should Mental Health Professionals Respond to Outbreaks of Mass Psychogenic Illness? (2011) (3)
Evaluating Bigfoot Videos as an Anthropology Teaching Aid (1991) (3)
Subsidising Australian pseudo‐science: is iridology complementary medicine or witch doctoring? (1998) (3)
Politics, scapegoating and mass psychogenic illness: claims of an ‘acoustical attack’ in Cuba are unsound (2017) (3)
Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria (2020) (2)
Re: "Epidemic hysteria: a review of the published literature". (2000) (2)
The Enigma of the “Jumping Frenchmen of Maine” (2007) (1)
Mass Hysteria Through the Ages: From St. Vitus Dance to Mystery Odors (2020) (1)
Michigan and the Great Mass Hysteria Episode of 1897 (1998) (1)
Chasing Ghosts in Cuba (2020) (0)
Modern-Day Acoustical Scares: From ‘The Hum’ to ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’ (2020) (0)
The Crisis Deepens (2020) (0)
From Wild Man to Monster: The Historical Evolution of Bigfoot in New York State (2009) (0)
Rejoinder (1999) (0)
The Social Construction of ‘Havana Syndrome’ (2020) (0)
Musical Illness and Telephone Sickness: An Early History of Sound and Suggestion (2020) (0)
Bartholomew The Social Psychology of ' Epidemic ' Koro (2007) (0)
Canadian Contagion (2020) (0)
The Paranormal and Nursing (1997) (0)
State Terrorism Masquerading as Psychogenic Illness (2020) (0)
5 Sex, bugs & microwave attacks: how bad science, mating insects & psychogenic illness created an international incident with cuba (2021) (0)
A Short History of Spider, Insect, and Worm Scares (2020) (0)
The Humble Happy Man (0)
The Great New England Airship Hoax of 1909 (2002) (0)
Phantom Assailants: Mad Gassers, Phantom Slashers, and Other Believed-in Imaginings (2020) (0)
Psychogenic Illness on the Battlefield: From the Civil War to Gulf War Syndrome (2020) (0)

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