Publications
2017 Oths, Kathryn, Hannah Smith, Max Stein, and Rodrigo Lazo Landivar. A Decade of Rapid Change: Biocultural Influences on Child Growth in Highland Peru. American Journal of Human Biology, Am J Hum Biol. 2017;e23072. Pdf available by email.
2016 Oths, K., Manzella, F., Leichtweis, B., Groves, K. Who Will Be Served? Farmers Market Variability and the Expectations of Young Adults. Human Organization 75(4): 346-357. Pdf available by email.
2014 Dressler, William W. and Kathryn S. Oths. Social Survey Methods in Anthropological Fieldwork. In: Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. 2nd Ed., H. Russell Bernard and Clarence C. Gravlee, Eds., Altamira Press. Pdf available by e-mail.
2012 Dressler, William W.,Kathryn S. Oths, Mauro Campos Balieiro, Rosane Pilot Ribeiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. How Culture Shapes the Body: Cultural Consonance and Body Mass in Urban Brazil. American Journal of Human Biology 24(3):325-331. Pdf available by e-mail.
2012 Oths, Kathryn S. and Katy M. Groves. Chestnuts and Spring Chickens: Conflict and Change in Farmer’s Market Ideologies. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 51(2):1-20. Pdf available by e-mail.
2009 Newkirk, Christine N., Kathryn S. Oths, William W. Dressler and José Ernesto dos Santos Intracultural diversity in food knowledge in southern Brazil. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 48:285-302. Pdf available by e-mail.
2008 Dressler, William W. and Kathryn S. Oths. Reflections on teaching SCRM: Survey research methods in anthropology. Practicing Anthropology 30: 40-41. Pdf available by e-mail.
2008 Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, Rosane Pilot Ribeiro, Mauro Campos Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. Cultural consonance and adult body composition in urban Brazil. American Journal of Human Biology 20: 15-22. Pdf available by e-mail.
2007 Oths, Kathryn S. and Tara Robertson. Give me shelter: Temporal patterns of women fleeing domestic abuse. Human Organization, 66(3): 249-260. Pdf available by e-mail.
2005 Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, and Clarence C. Gravlee Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Research: Models to Explain Health Disparities. Annual Review of Anthropology 34:231-252. Full text pdf available upon request
2004 Dressler, William W., Rosane Pilot Ribeiro, Mauro Campos Balieiro, Kathryn S. Oths, José Ernesto Dos Santos. Eating, drinking and being depressed: The social, cultural and psychological context of alcohol consumption and nutrition in a Brazilian community. Social Science and Medicine 56:709-720. Full text pdf available upon request
2004 Oths KS and Linda L. Dunn. Prenatal Predictors of Intimate Partner Abuse. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 33:54-63. Full text pdf available upon request
2004 Oths, Kathryn S. and Servando Z. Hinojosa (Editors). Healing by Hand: Manual Medicine and Bonesetting in Global Perspective. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press. View the Table of Contents.
2004 Oths, Kathryn S. The componedor’s place in the pluralistic Andean health care system, pp. 199-220. In: Healing by Hand: Manual Medicine and Bonesetting in Global Perspective Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press. Full text pdf available upon request
2003 Oths KS, Adriana Carolo and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos. Social status and food preferences in southeast Brazil . Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 42:303-324. Full text pdf available upon request
2002 Oths KS. Setting it straight in the Andes: Musculoskeletal distress and the role of the componedor. In Medical Pluralism in the Andes: Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology and International Health. Joan D. Koss-Chioino, Thomas Leatherman and Christine Greenway, eds. Pp. 63-91. London: Routledge. Full text pdf available upon request
2001 Dos-Santos, JE, KS Oths and WW Dressler. Socioeconomic factors and adult body composition in a developing society. Revista Brasileira de Hipertens? 8: 173-178. Full text pdf available upon request
2001 Oths KS, Linda L. Dunn and Nancy S. Palmer. A prospective study of psychosocial job strain and birth outcomes. Epidemiology 12(6):744-746. Full text pdf available upon request
2000 Kroelinger, Charlan and KS Oths. Partner support and pregnancy wantedness. Birth. 27(2):112-119. Full text pdf available upon request
2000 Oths KS and Carla Winston. Seeking early care: The role of prenatal advocates. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14(2):127-137.Full text pdf available upon request
1999 Oths KS. Debilidad: A biocultural assessment of an embodied Andean illness. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13(3)286-315.Full text pdf available upon request
1998 Oths KS. Assessing variation in health status in the Andes: A biocultural model. Social Science and Medicine 47(8): 1017-1030.Full text pdf available upon request
1997 Oths KS and William W. Dressler. Cultural determinants of health behavior, pp. 359-378. In Handbook of Health Behavior Research, Vol. 1: Determinants of Health Behavior: Personal and Social, David S. Gochman, Ed., Plenum Press. Full text pdf available upon request
1995 Oths KS. Ecological and macrolevel influences on illness in Northern Peru: Beyond the international health paradigm, pp. 107-129. In: Culture, Society, and Medicine: International Perspectives. Gallagher, Eugene and Janardan Subedi, eds. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Full text pdf available upon request
1994 Oths KS. Communication in a chiropractic clinic: How a D.C. treats his patients. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry 18: 83-113. Full text pdf available upon request
1994 Oths KS. Health care decisions of households in economic crisis: An example from the Peruvian highlands. Human Organization 53(3): 245-254. Full text pdf available upon request
1992 Oths KS. Unintended therapy: Psychotherapeutic aspects of chiropractic, pp. 85-123. In: Ethnopsychiatry: The Cultural Construction of Professional and Folk Psychiatries, Gaines, Atwood D., ed., Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. Full text pdf available upon request
1991 Oths KS. Some symbolic dimensions of Andean materia medica. Central Issues in Anthropology 10:76-85. Full text pdf available upon request
1991 Oths, KS. Medical Treatment Choice and Health Outcomes in the Northern Peruvian Andes. Ph.D. Dissertation, Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms.