Books
In
preparation
Bargaining
Lives: Eating Disorder Clinicians in the Era of Managed Care (working title).
In
preparation
Sickening:
A Critical Intellectual History of Eating Disorder Treatment (working title).
2005
Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying
Modernity in a Mexican Convent.
Articles
and Book Chapters
2009
Brokering Authenticity: Borderline Personality Disorder
and the Ethics of Care at an American Eating
Disorder Clinic. Current Anthropology 50(3)
Critical Therapeutics in Two Eating
Disorders Treatment Centers. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 21(4): 369-387.
It’s Like Being in a Labyrinth:
Hispanic Immigrants’ Perceptions of Depression and Attitudes
Towards Treatment, (second author with Leo Cabassa and Luis Zayas), Journal
of Immigrant & Minority Health 9 (1): 1-16.
2005
Why Do So Many Latina Teens Attempt
Suicide?: A Conceptual Model for Research (second author, with Luis
Zayas and Leo Cabassa), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
75 (2): 275-287.
2004
Eating Disorders and the Problem of
‘Culture’ in Acculturation. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry
28 (4): 607-615.
The Immediacy of Eternity: Time and Transformation in a Roman Catholic Convent. Religion 33 (3): 201-219.
Like
a Natural Woman: Celibacy and the Embodied Self in Anorexia Nervosa. In Celibacy, Culture, and Society:
The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence. E.J. Sobo and
Let Go and Let God: Religion and the
Politics of Surrender in Overeaters Anonymous. In Interpreting Weight: The Social
Management of Fatness and Thinness. Jeffery
Sobal and Donna Maurer, eds. Pp.139-164.
1997
Embodied Voices: Women's Food
Asceticism and the Negotiation of Identity.
Ethos 23(2): 187-222.
Book Reviews
2008
The
Madness of Mary Lincoln. History: Reviews of New Books 36 (2): 73.
2006
Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled
History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863.
History 34
(4): 112-113.
2004
Body/Meaning/Healing, by Thomas J.
Csordas. Journal of the
Bodies of Thought, by Ian Burkitt
and Body and Organization, by Hassard, Holliday and Willmott. Theory and Psychology 14(3):409-419.
2000
Culture: A Problem that Cannot Be
Solved, by Charles W. Nuckolls and Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the
Problem of Meaning, by Bradd Shore. American Ethnologist 27 (4):760-2.
Bizarre and Eccentric Behaviors, by Louis R. Franzini and John M. Grossberg. Social Science and Medicine 47(10):1632.