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Elisa J. Sobo Ph.D. , Professor Department of Anthropology

Publications

Books

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Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity: A Unified ApproachThe Cultural Context of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2nd edition. Culture and Meaning in HealthCulture and Meaning in Health Services Research: An Applied Anthropological Approach The Endangered Self: Managing the Social Risks of HIV
The Cultural Context of Health, Illness and Medicine Choosing Unsafe Sex: AIDS Risk Denial among Disadvantaged Women. One Blood: The Jamaican Body

  • Sobo, EJ. (2012). Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity: A Unified Approach. Leftcoast Press.

  • Sobo, E. & Loustaunau, M. (2010) The Cultural Context of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2nd edition. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

  • Sobo, E. (2009). Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research: An Applied Anthropological Approach. Left Coast Press.

  • Green, G. & E. Sobo (2000). The Endangered Self: Managing the Social Risks of HIV. Routledge / Taylor & Francis. [Awarded: ‘Medicine & People’ book award]

  • Loustaunau, M. & E. Sobo (1997). The Cultural Context of Health, Illness and Medicine. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

  • Sobo, E. (1995). Choosing Unsafe Sex: AIDS Risk Denial among Disadvantaged Women. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

  • Sobo, E. (1993). One Blood: The Jamaican Body. Albany: State University of New York Press.


Edited Books

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Optimizing Care for Young Children with Special Health Care Needs: Knowing and Navigating the System Child Health Services Research: Applications, Innovations, and Insights Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence
Contraception across Cultures Using Methods in the Field: a Practical Introduction and Casebook

  • Sobo, E. & P. Kurtin, eds. (2007). Optimizing Care for Young Children with Special Health Care Needs: Knowing and Navigating the System. Baltimore: Brookes Publishing.

  • Sobo, E. & P. Kurtin, eds. (2003). Child Health Services Research: Applications, Innovations, and Insights. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

  • Sobo, E. & S. Bell, eds. (2001). Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence. University of Wisconsin.

  • Russell, A., E. Sobo & M. Thompson, eds. (2000). Contraception across Cultures Technologies: Choices, Constraints. Oxford: Berg.

  • de Munck, V. & E. Sobo (1998). Using Methods in the Field: a Practical Introduction and Casebook. AltaMira.


Recently Published Peer Reviewed Articles

  • Sobo, E.; Herlihy, E.; Bicker, M. (In Press). Selling Medical Travel to US Patient-consumers: The Cultural Appeal of Website Marketing Messages. Anthropology and Medicine. 18(1):TBD.

  • Hunter, LP; Bormann, J; Belding, W; Sobo, EJ; Axman, L; Reseter, BK; Hanson, SM; Miranda, V (In press). Satisfaction with the use of a spiritually-based mantram intervention for couples. Journal of Applied Nursing Research. [ANR-D-08-00080R2 / Accepted for publication June 2009]

  • Hanson, S; Hunter, LP; Bormann, J; Sobo, E. (2009). Paternal Fears of Childbirth. Journal of Perinatal Education. 18(4), 12–20.

  • Sobo, E; Bowman, C; Gifford, A. (2008). Behind the scenes in healthcare improvement: The complex structures and emergent strategies of implementation science. Social Science & Medicine. 67(10):1530-1540.

  • Sobo, E; Bowman, C; Halloran, J; Asch, S; Goetz, M; Gifford, A. (2008). “A Routine Thing”: Clinician Strategies for Implementing HIV Testing for At-Risk Patients in a Busy Healthcare Organization (and Implications for Implementation of other New Practice Recommendations) Anthropology & Medicine. 15(3):213-225.

  • Sobo, E; Bowman, C; Halloran, J; Aarons, G; Asch, S; Gifford, A. (2008). Enhancing Organizational Change and Improvement Prospects: Lessons from an HIV Testing Intervention for Veterans. Human Organization. 67(4):443-453.

  • Bowman, C; Sobo, EJ; Asch, S; Gifford, A. (2008). Measuring Persistence of Implementation: QUERI series. Implementation Science 3:21.

  • Sobo, EJ; Seid, M; Gelhard, L. (2006). Parent-identified barriers to pediatric health care: A process-oriented model and method. Health Services Research. 41(1):148-172.

  • Bethell, C; Simpson, L; Read, D; Sobo, EJ; Latzke, B; Hedges, S; Kurtin, PS. (2006). Communication and the Quality and Safety of Hospital Care for Children from Spanish Speaking Limited English Proficient Families. Journal for Healthcare Quality Online.

  • Sobo, EJ; Eng, B; Kassity, N. (2006). Canine Visitation (‘Pet’) Therapy: Pilot Data on Decreases in Pediatric Pain. Holistic Nursing. 24(1):51-57.

  • Sobo, EJ (2005). Anthropology and the Artifacts of Medicine. Reviews in Anthropology. 32(2):145-156.

  • Sobo, EJ (2005). Parents’ Perceptions of Pediatric Day Surgery Risks: Unforeseeable Complications, or Avoidable Mistakes? Social Science & Medicine. 60(10):2341-2350.

  • Prussing, E; Sobo, EJ; Walker, E; Kurtin, P. (2005). Between 'desperation' and disability rights: a narrative analysis of complementary/alternative medicine use by parents for children with Down syndrome. Social Science and Medicine. 60(3):587-598.


All Other Publications

For a full list of Dr. Sobo’s articles and other publications, please see her CV. You also can find publications grouped by topic under the Research link.
SDSU logo Using Methods in the Field: a Practical Introduction and Casebook Contraception across Cultures Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence Child Health Services Research: Applications, Innovations, and Insights Optimizing Care for Young Children with Special Health Care Needs: Knowing and Navigating the System Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity One Blood: The Jamaican Body Choosing Unsafe Sex: AIDS Risk Denial among Disadvantaged Women. The Cultural Context of Health, Illness and Medicine The Endangered Self: Managing the Social Risks of HIV Culture and Meaning in HealthCulture and Meaning in Health Services Research: An Applied Anthropological Approach The Cultural Context of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2nd edition.