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Pamela Irene Erickson (born 12 April 1951) is a medical anthropologist. The holder of both a Dr.P.H (Public Health, UCLA 1988) and a PhD (Anthropology, SUNY Buffalo 1993), 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. Her current research is in several areas of medical anthropology, including barrier contraceptive use among minority young adults, marriage and reproduction among the Waorani Indians of Ecuador, and the medicalization of social problems. Additionally, she is co-editor, with ''Merrill Singer'' of the book series Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology with Left Coast Press. ==Publications== * Erickson, Pamela (1998) Latina Adolescent Childbearing in East Los Angeles Austin. TX: University of Texas Press. * Erickson, Pamela (2008) Ethnomedicine'' Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. * Singer, Merrill and Erickson, Pamela (2008) ''Nothing to Play Around With: Dangerous Toys for Girls and Boys'' In Killer Commodities: Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm. Singer, M. and Baser, H., eds. Altamira Press. * Erickson, Pamela and Cheney, Ann(2008) ''Silicone Seduction: Are Cosmetic Breast Implants?'' In Killer Commodities: Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm, Singer, M. and Baser, H., eds. Altamira Press. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pamela Erickson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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