MARGARET LOCK

margaret.lock@mcgill.ca

ADDRESS:Department of Social Studies of Medicine - McGill University - 3647 Peel Street, 2^nd Floor - Montreal, PQ H3A 1X1 - Canada - Tel: 514-398-6033 / Fax: 514-398-1498

EDUCATION

• 1961 - B.Sc.      Biochemistry, Leeds University, England

• 1970 - M.A.       Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

• 1976 -Ph.D.      Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

• 1973 - Japanese Language Diploma, Stanford Inter-University Center, Tokyo

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

• Theoretical: Anthropology of Scientific Knowledge, Medical Anthropology, Critical/Interpretive Anthropology, Life Cycle

• Geographical Areas: East Asia particularly Japan, Contemporary North America

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSTS

• 2002-present - The Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies in Medicine

• 1987-present - Professor, Departments of Social Studies of Medicine and Anthropology, McGill University

• 1988-1993 - Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Studies in Medicine, McGill University            

• 1986-1987 - Acting Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Studies in Medicine, McGill University

• 1981-1987 - Associate Professor, Medical Anthropology, Departments of Humanities and Social Studies in Medicine and Anthropology, McGill University

• 1981-1983 - Director, East Asian Studies, McGill University

• 1977-1981 - Assistant Professor, Medical Anthropology, Department of the History of Medicine, McGill University

• 1976-1977 - Post-Doctoral Fellow, program in Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco

• 1975-1976 - Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco

• 1975-1976 - Extension Instructor, Department of Adult Education, University of California, Berkeley

• 1971-1972 - Teaching Assistant and Teaching Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

• 1962-1964 - Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco

• 1961-1962 - Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto.

HONOURS AND AWARDS

• 2005 - Grande Montréalaise, Secteur Social

•  2005 - Canada Council of the Arts, Killam Prize for the Social Sciences

•  2005 - Trudeau Foundation Fellow

•  2005 - Visiting Professor, Slovenia Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Ljubljana, April-May.

•  2004 - Officier de L’Ordre national du Québec

•  2003 - The American Anthropological Association, Robert B. Textor and Family Award for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology

• 2002 - The 2002 Quebec Writers Federation Awards, Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction for Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, University of California Press, 2002

• 2002 - Sociology of Health and Illness Book of the Year Award, The British Sociological  

• Association for Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, University of California Press, 2002

• 2002 - Canada Council for the Arts, Molson Prize

• 2000 - Ida Cornelia Beam Distinguished Lecture, University of Iowa

• 1999 - The Neilson Professor, Smith College, Massachusetts (September to December)

• 1999 - Visiting Professor, Departments of Anthropology and of the History of Medicine, University of Vienna

• 1998 - Resident at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (March)

• 1997 - Wellcome Medal for research in medical anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain

• 1997 - Léon-Gérin, Prix du Québec dans le domaine des sciences humaines

• 1997 - The J. I. Staley Award, School of American Research for Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America, UC Press, 1993

• 1995 - The Berkeley Award for Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America, UC Press, 1993

• 1994 - Canada Japan Book Award, Canada Council for Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America, UC Press, 1993

• 1994 - presentFellow, Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences

• 1993-2004 - Member, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Population Health Program

• 1993 - Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, American Anthropological Association for Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America, UC Press, 1993

• Finalist Hiromi Arisawa Book Award, Association American University Presses for Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America, UC Press, 1993

• 1993 - World Federation for Mental Health, Margaret Mead Memorial Lectureship, Tokyo

• 1992-1994 - Canada Council, Isaak Walton Killam Research Fellowship

• 1992 - Distinguished Lecturer, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies and the American Friendship Commission

• 1992 - Visiting Scholar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

• 1988-1990 - Sigma Xi National Lecturer

• 1983-1984 - Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Japan

• 1983-1984 - St. John's Professor, Seirokka Byôin (St. Luke's Hospital), Tokyo, Japan

• 1982 - Japan-Canada Bilateral Exchange Fellow (April-July)

• 1968-1973 - Special Career Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

• 1958-1961 - Major County Award, Leeds University, England.

RESEARCH GRANTS

• 2005-2008 - Trudeau Foundation, Research Grant, $25,000 per annum CAD

• 2003-2005 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Research Grant (Familial and Social Ramifications of Conceptualizing Genetics as contributory to Alzheimer's Disease), $78,040  CAD

• 2003 - SSHRC McGill Internal Grant (Familial and Social Ramifications of Conceptualizing Genetics as contributory to Alzheimer’s Disease), $4,800 CAD

• 2002-2004 - Wenner-Gren Foundation, Research Grant (A Twenty Year Review: The Making of Menopause in Japan), $20,000 CAD

• 2002-2006 - Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant (Transfer of Bioscience Knowledge: Gene-Based Vulnerability in Psychiatry), $375,461 CAD

• 1999-2002 - Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Research Grant (The New Genetics and the Reinvention of Normal), $90,000 CAD

• 1998-2001 - Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide à la Recherche (FCAR) Team Grant (An Anthropology of the Body, Memory and Identity), $180,000 CAD

• 1997-2000 - Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Research Grant Co-Investigator (Enhancement Technologies and Human Identity), $135,000 CAD

• 1996-1998 - Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Research Grant (Tinkering with Nature: A Cultural Analysis of Biomedical Technologies in Japan and North America), $12,500 US

• Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) - Research Grant (A Cultural Analysis of Technologies Dealing with Life and Death in Japan and Canada), $56,000 CAD

• 1996 - McGill University Grant for Research Development (Tinkering with Nature: A Cultural Analysis of Medical Technology in Japan), $3,500 CAD

• 1995-1998 - Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) - Research Grant Co-Investigator (Risk Communication: The Case of Hormone Therapy – An Anthropological Perspective), $70,000 CAD

• 1993-1996 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) - Research Grant (A Cultural Analysis of Technologies Dealing with Life and Death in Japan and Canada), $60,000 CAD

• 1993-1996 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), Member, Strategic Research Network Grant, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, $41,000 CAD per year

• 1993-1996 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), Member, Strategic Research Network Grant, Humanizing Bioethics, $35,000 CAD per year

• 1993-1994  - Wenner-Gren Foundation Research Grant (Tinkering with Nature: A Cultural Analysis of Medical Technology in Japan), $10,000 US

• 1990-1993 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) - Research Grant (Tinkering with Nature: Cultural Analysis of Medical Technology in Japan), $41,800 CAD

• 1989 - Multiculturalism Canada grant (Research on Greek migrant workers in Montreal)

• 1988-1990  - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) - Research Grant (Cultural Construction of Menopause in Japan and Canada), $32,850 CAD

• 1988 - McGill University Grant for Research Development

• 1988 - Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference Grant for organization of “Analysis in Medical Anthropology”, Lisbon, Portugal (March)

• 1987 - Japan Foundation Grant (Japanese Medical Ethics)

• 1987 - McGill University Travel Grant, 5th International Congress on Menopause, Sorrento, Italy

• 1985-1986 - McGill University Grant for Research Development

• 1985 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Conference Travel Grant

McGill University Grant for Research Development 

• 1984 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Travel Grant for Officers of Scholarly Organizations

• 1983-1987 - FCAC Team Grant, Quebec (for psycho/symbolic analysis of female life cycle transitions in East African pastoralists)

• 1983-1987 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Research Grant (for psycho/symbolic analysis of female life cycle transitions in Japan)

• 1983-1984 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Leave Fellowship Research Grant (for ethnomedical study of Greek community, Montreal)

• 1980-1981 - McGill University Grant for Research Development

• 1978-1979 - McGill University Grant for Research Development

• 1973-1975 - Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Fellowship (for research in Japan)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 

• Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences

• Fellow, American Anthropological Association

• Fellow, Canadian Sociological & Anthropological Association

• Fellow, Association for Asian Studies

• Member, Society for Medical Anthropology

CONSULTANCIES AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS 

• 2005 - Invited presentation for the Committee on Gene/Environment Interactions, Institute of  Medicine, Washington DC.

• 2004-present - Advisory Board, Center for Genetics Research, Ethics and Law (CREAL), NIH founded project housed at University of Case Western Reserve.

• 2002 - Consultant, “Beyond the Beginning: The Future of Genomics II”, National Human Human Genome Research Insitute, National Institutes of Health, Washington D.C. (November)

• 2002-present - Member,  International Scientific Advisory Board of the Innovia Foundation

• 2002-present - Co-Chair, Priority and Planning Committee for Environmental, Ethical, Legal and Social Issues, Institute of Genetics, Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)

• 2000-present - Member, Institute Advisory Board (IAB), Institute of Genetics, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, (CIHR)

• 2000 - Editorial Board, Who's Who in Anthropology

• 2000 - Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology

• 2000-2004 - Member, College of Reviewers of the Canada Research Chairs Program (SSHRCC)

• 1997-2001 - Member, National Network on Environments and Women's Health (Réseau pancanadien sur la santé des femmes et le milieu)

• 1995-1996 - Member, Ministry of Health Canada Committee on Embryo Research

• 1996-presentMember, WHO sponsored International Forum on Transplant Ethics (IFTE)

• 1994-1998 - Member, McGill Center for Clinical Immuno-Biology and Transplantation Advisory Board

• 1994-1998 - Member, CGAT (Canadian Genome Analysis and Technology Programme) MELSI (Medical, Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues) Committee

• 1994-2003 - Member, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research, Population Health Program

• 1992-1995 - Japan Health-Care Costs Project, Symposium sponsored by Center for Global Partnership

• 1992-1994 - The Human and Cultural Context of Organ Transplantation Project, University Hospitals of Cleveland

• 1991-1998 - Member, Committee on Culture, Health and Human Development, Social Science Research Council

• 1991-1993 - Member, Program Committee, Association for Asian Studies

• 1990-1993 - Member, Joint Committee on Japanese Studies, Social Science Research Council

• 1989-1990 - Member, Comité de la santé mentale du Québec sur les communautés culturelles et la santé mentale

• 1988 - National Institute of Health site visit, Center for Gerontological Research, Michigan University

• 1988 - Member, Annual Grant Proposal Review, Social Science Research Council, Japan Section

• 1987 - Research Consultant, Kitasato Research Institute (Translation of Japanese publications on clinical research in connection with traditional Japanese medicine)

• 1986-1987 - Past President, Society for Medical Anthropology

• 1986-1987 - Chair, Committee on External Relations (CER), American Anthropological Association

• 1986-1988 - Consultant, Multiculturalism Program, Children's Hospital, Montreal

• 1985-1986 - President, Society for Medical Anthropology

• 1985 - Member, Selection Committee for Editor of new Journal of Medical Anthropology

• 1984-1987 - Member, Board of Directors, American Anthropological Association

• 1984-1986 - Chair, Committee on Anthropology and Public Policy of the American Anthropological Association

• 1984-1985 - President-Elect, Society for Medical Anthropology

• 1984 - Research Consultant, Ph.D. Program, Nursing School, Seirokka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

• 1983-1989 - Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Association for Medical Anthropology

• 1982-1985 - Treasurer, IASTAM (International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine)

• 1982 - Research Consultant, Program in Clinical Anthropology, University of Hawaii (April)

• 1980-1982 - Chairperson, W.H.R. Rivers Student Award Committee

• 1980-1983 - Member of sub-committee on Publications Committee, Groupe Inter-Universitaire de Recherche en Anthropologie Médicale et Ethnopsychiatrie

• 1980-1983 - Member, Executive Committee of the Medical Anthropology Association

• 1978-present - Proposal and manuscript reviewer, SSHRC, SSRC, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Current Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Social Science & Medicine, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, etc.

• 1978-1979 - Research Consultant for Dr. Fritjof Capra, physicist, on his book The Turning Point: Science, Society and the New Culture, Simon and Schuster, 1982

• 1977-1978 - Research Consultant for the Laurentian Alliance of Metis and Non-Status Indians

• 1976-1978 - Research Consultant for the Harcourt Brace and Janovitch educational films about health.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

• 2000-2003 - Editorial Committee, Annual Review of Anthropology

• 1996-present - Editorial Board, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine

• 1995-present - Publication Review Committee, McGill-Queens University Press

• 1994-present - Editorial Board, McGill-Queens University Press

• 1991-2004 - Series Editor, Cambridge University Press, Series on Medical Anthropology

• 1987-present - Associate Editor, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

• 1986-1987 - Advisory Board, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

• 1986-1989 - Co-Editor-in-Chief, Kluwer Academic Publishers book series, Culture, Illness and Healing

• 1985-1986 - Member, Editorial Board, Kluwer Academic Publishers book series, Culture, Illness and Healing

• 1983-1994 - Associate Editor, Social Science & Medicine

• 1983- present - Associate Editor, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

MCGILL COMMITTEES AND SERVICE 

• 2003-2005 -Member, Committee for Selection of Recipients of Honorary Degrees

• 1989-1993 - Advisory Committee, McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women

• 1988-1990 - Senate Committee on Women

• 1988-1989 - Cyclical Review Committee, Department of Psychiatry

• 1986-1993 - Member, Sub-Committee on Japanese Studies, East Asian Studies

• 1985-1987 - Member, Selection Committee for McGill Centre for Aging

• 1985-1986 - Cyclical Review Committee, Centre for Developing Area Studies

• 1984-1986 - Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee

Cyclical Review Committee, McGill School of Social Work

• 1982-1983 - Clifford Wong Fellowship Committee

• 1980-1986 - Advisory Committee, Behavioral Sciences Course

• 1979-1981 - Chair, Psycho/Social Group (Informal group to examine the teaching of Behavioral Sciences in Medicine)

• 1979-1981 - Member of Kellogg Foundation Task Force for preparation of handbook for teaching residents in Family Practice

• 1979-1980 - Task Force to examine training of Small Group leaders for teaching of Behavioral Sciences in Medicine

• 1978-1983 - Center for Developing Area Studies, Publications Committee

• 1978-1986 - Chair, Sub-Committee, Japanese Studies

• 1978-1988 - Member, Advisory Committee on East Asian Studies, Committee on Undergraduate Education, Department of Psychiatry

• 1977-1980 - Counselor, Faculty Counseling Program, Faculty of Medicine.

RESEARCH TOPICS

• 2000-present - Translation across domains of knowledge in molecular genomics and genetics with emphasis on Alzheimer’s Disease and psychiatric disorders.

• 1987-2001 - Differential impact of biomedical technologies, contested concepts of life and death, body commodification, and associated disputes about moral order in Japan and North America

• 1986Psycho/biological and cultural construction of menopause among the Samburu of East Africa

• 1983-1990 - Psycho/biological and cultural construction of menopause in Japan; school phobia in Japan

• 1982Pluralistic medical systems, the Japanese elderly

• 1981-1985 - Ethnomedical study of Greek immigrants to Canada, migration and its impact on health

• 1975-1976 - San Francisco, the holistic health movement in cultural context

• 1973-1975 - Revival and transformation of traditional East Asian medicine in contemporary Japan.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• 2005 - Koonenki: Nihon Josei ga Kataru Rookaru Baiorojii, Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo. (translation of Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America UC Press 1993).

• 2004 - Nooshi to Zooki Ishoku to Iryoo Jinruigaku. Tokyo Misuzu Shobo (translation of Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. UC Press, 2002).

•  2003 - Remaking Life and Death: Towards an Anthropology of the Biosciences, edited with Sarah Franklin. Santa Fe: School of American Research.

• 2002 - New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: A Festschrift in Honor of Charles Leslie, edited with Mark Nichter. New York: Routledge.

• 2002 - Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. Berkeley: University of California Press.

• 2001 - Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery, edited with Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Mamphela Ramphele and Pamela Reynolds. Berkeley: University of California Press.

• 2000 - Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry, edited with Allan Young and Alberto Cambrosio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• 1998 - Pragmatic Women and Body Politics, edited with Patricia Kaufert, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• 1997 - Social Suffering, co-edited with Arthur Kleinman and Veena Das. Berkeley: University of California Press.

• 1993 - Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

• 1993 - Knowledge, Power and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life, edited with Shirley Lindenbaum. Berkeley: University of California Press.

• 1992 - La santé mentale et ses visages: Un Québec pluriethnique au quotidien, with Gilles Bibeau, A. M. Chan-Yip, Cécile Rousseau and Carlos Sterlin, edited by Gaëtan Morin. Le Comité de la santé mentale du Québec.

• 1990 - Toshi Bunka to Tôyôigaku. Kyoto: Shibunkaku. (Japanese translation of East Asian Medicine: Varieties of Medical Experience. University of California Press, 1980).

• 1988 - Biomedicine Examined, edited with Deborah R. Gordon. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

• 1987 - Health and Medical Care in Japan: Cultural and Social Dimensions, edited with Edward Norbeck. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

• 1980 - East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES 

•  2006 - Global and Local Perspectives on Population Health, with Vinh-Kim Nguyen and Christina  Zarowsky. In J. Heyman, C, Hertzman, M. L. Barer and R.G. Evans eds. Healthier Societies: From Analysis to Action. Oxford University Press. Pp. 58-82 (first author).

• 2006 - Interactive Role of Genes and the Environment, with John Frank, Geoffrey Lomax, and Patricia Beard. In. J. Heyman, C, Hertzman, M. L. Barer and R.G. Evans eds. Healthier Societies: From Analysis to Action. Oxford University Press, Pp. 11-34 (fourth author).

• 2005 - When it Runs in the Family: Putting Susceptibility Genes in Perspective, with Julia Freeman, Rosemary Sharples and Stephanie Lloyd, Public Understanding of Science 14:1-24 (first author).

• 2005 - The Eclipse of the Gene and the Return of Divination. Current Anthropology 46: S47-S70.

• 2005 - Preserving Moral Order: Responses to Biomedical Technologies. In J. Robertson ed., A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, Blackwell Publishers. Pp483-499.   

• 2005 - Culture and Symptom Reporting at Menopause, with Melissa Melby and Patricia Kaufert, Human Reproduction Update 11:495-512 (second author).

• 2005 - Inventing a New Death and Making it Believable, In. Els van Dongen and Sylvie Fainzang eds.,  Lying and Illness: Power and Performance. Amsterdam:Her Spinhuis, Pp. 12-35.

• 2005 - Anthropologie Médicale: Pistes d’Avenir, In. Francine Saillant and Serge Genest eds., Anthropologie Médicale: Ancrages locaux, defies globaux.Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval. Pp. 439-461.

• 2005 - Symptom Reporting at the End of Menstruation: Biological Variation and Cultural Difference. In Controversies in Science and Technologies: From Maize to Menopause. D.L. Kleinman, A.J. Kinchy and J. Handelsman, eds. Madison: University of Winsconsin Press, p. 236-253.

• 2005 - Savouring Complexity and Resisting Hype: Molecular Genetics and Alzheimer’s Disease. In Susan McKinnon and Sydel Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nurture. New York: Routledge. Pp.196-222.

• 2005 - Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies. In Conerly Casey and Robert Edgerton ed. A Companion to Psychological Anthropology, New York: Blackwell, pp. 298-314.

• 2005 - Editorial: Cross-Cultural Vasomotor Symptom Reporting: Conceptual and Methodological Issues. Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society 12: 1-3.

• 2004 - Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America and Japan. In Death, Mourning and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader, A. Robben, ed. London: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 189-204.

• 2004 - Yûsei gaku to Idenshi kogaku no Yûtopia (Utopias of Germline Engineering and Eugenics). In Gendai Shiso (Modern Thought) 32:190-210.

• 2004 - Biomedical Technologies, Anthropological Approaches. In Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures.  Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers, pp. 86-95.

• 2004 - Medicalization and the Naturalization of Social Control. In Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures.  Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers, pp. 116-125.

• 2004 - Menopause. In Dictionnaire de la pensée médicale. Lecourt, D. Presses Universitaires de France, pp. 55-62.

• 2004 - Genetics and the Environment in Human Health: A Balanced Approach. In Genomics, Health and Society: Emerging Issues for Public Policy. M. Knoppers, C. Scriver, Canadian Policy Research Initiative, pp. 41-66.

• 2004 - Perfektionierte Gesellschaft: Reproduktive Technologien, Genetische Tests und Geplante Familien in Japan. In Reflexive Körper? Zur Modernisierung von Sexualitat und Reproduktion. I. Lenz, L. Mense and C. Ullrich. Leske + Budrich, Opladen, pp. 203 – 240.

• 2004 - Molecular Genetics, Utopias of Health and Neo-Eugenics.  In Eskalationen, Die Gewalt von Kultur, Recht und Politik. Klaus R. Scherpe und Thomas Weitin, eds., p. 29-46.

• 2003 - Globalization and the Cultures of Biomedicine: Japan and North America. In Medicine Across Cultures, Helaine Selin, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.155-173.

• 2003 - On Making up the Good-as-Dead in a Utilitarian World. In Rethinking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences.  Edited with Sarah Franklin.  Santa Fe: School of American Research, pp.165-192.

• 2003 - Animations and Cessations: The Transformation of Life and Death, with Sarah Franklin. Introduction to Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock, eds., Rethinking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences. Santa Fe: School of American Research, pp. 3-22.

• 2002 - Inventing a New Death and Making it Believable. Anthropology and Medicine, 9:97-115.

• 2002 - Susceptibility Genes, Alzheimer’s Disease and the Translation of Knowledge Across Domains. Poster presentation, 8^th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease And Related Disorders. Stockholm, Sweden.

• 2002 - Symptom Reporting at Menopause: A Review of Cross-Cultural Findings. Journal of the British Menopause Society, 8: 132-136.

• 2002 - Human Body Parts as Therapeutic Tools: Contradictory Discourses and Transformed Subjectivities. Qualitative Health Research, 12(10): 1406-1418.

• 2002 - The Alienation of Body Tissue and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines. In Commodifying Bodies. N.Scheper-Hughes and L. Wacquant, eds., London: Sage Publications, pp. 63-92.

• 2002 - Introduction: From Documenting Medical Pluralism to Critical Interpretations of Globalized Health Knowledge, Policies, and Practices. In New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie. Mark Nichter and Margaret Lock, eds. London: Routledge, pp.1-34.

• 2002 - Utopias of Health, Eugenics, and Germline Engineering. In New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie. Mark Nichter and  Margaret Lock, eds. London: Routledge, pp. 239-266.

• 2002 - Medical Knowledge and Body Politics. In Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines. Jeremy MacClancy, ed. Chicago University Press, pp.190-208.

• 2002 - Japanische Frauen in den Wechseljahren und die alternde Gesselschaft. In Regel-lose Frauen: Weschseljahre im Kulturvergleich. Herausgegeben von Godula Kosack and Ulrike Krasberg, eds. Königstein/Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, pp. 118-130.                

• 2002 - Le corps objet: économie morale et techniques d’amélioration. Bulletin d’histoire politique - Corps et Politique, 10(2): 33-46.

• 2001 - Alienation of Body Tissue and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines.  Body and Society, 7(2-3): 63-91.

• 2001 - The Tempering of Medical Anthropology: Troubling Natural Categories. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 15: 478-492.

• 2001 - Eliminating Stigmatization: Application of the New Genetics in Japan. In Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health. Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 253-276.

• 2001 - Guest Editor: Special Issue: Medical Innovation and Public Knowledge. Health, 5(3). London: Sage Publications.

• 2001 - Introduction. Special Issue: Medical Innovation and Public Knowledge. Health, 5(3): 283-291.

• 2001 - Menopause, Local Biologies and Cultures of Aging. With Patricia Kaufert. American Journal of Human Biology, 13(4): 494-504.

• 2001 - Situated Ethics, Culture, and the Brain Death “Problem” in Japan. In Bioethics in Social Context. Barry Hoffmaster, ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

• 2000 - Introduction. In Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry. Edited with Allan Young, and Alberto Cambrosio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.1-16.

• 2000 - On Dying Twice: Culture, Technology, and the Determination of Death. In Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry. Edited with Allan Young and Alberto Cambrosio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-262.

• 2000 - Taking Subjectivity Seriously. Orgyn, 11(3): 48-51.

• 2000 - Accounting for Disease and Distress: Morals of the Normal and Abnormal. In Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine. Gary L. Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick and Susan C. Scrimshaw, eds. London: Sage Publications, pp. 259-276.

• 2000 - The Quest for Human Organs and the Violence of Zeal. In Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery. Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Mamphela Ramphele and Pamela Reynolds, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 271-295.

• 1999 - Cultural Aspects of Organ Donation and Transplantation. Transplantation Proceedings, 31: 1345-1346.

• 1999 - Tädliche Debatten: Organspenden und die Kalkulation des Todes. Minikomi No. 3, pp.5-20.

• 1999 - The Cultural Politics of Female Aging in Japan and North America. In Gender and Japanese History: Religions and Customs/The Body and Sexuality. Wakita Haruko, Anne Bouchy and Ueno Chizuko, eds. Osaka: Osaka University Press, pp. 371-395.

• 1999 - Genetic Diversity and the Politics of Difference. Chicago-Kent Law Review, 75(1): 83-111.

• 1999 - The Politics of Health, Identity, and Culture. In Self, Social Identity and Physical Health. Richard J. Contrada, and Richard D. Ashmore, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 43-68.

• 1999 - The Problem of Brain Death: Japanese Disputes about Bodies and Modernity. In The Defining of Death: Contemporary Controversies. Stuart J. Youngner, Robert M. Arnold and Renie Schapiro, eds. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 239-256.

• 1998Deadly Disputes: Hybrid Selves and the Calculation of Death in Japan and North America. In Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology, and Medicine in East and Southeast Asia. Morris F. Low, ed. Osiris, second series, 13: 410-429 (actual date of publication: 1999).

• 1998 - “Shizen na Shintai” to iu Shinwa (Myths about the “Natural Body”). Gendai Shisô, 26: 142-161.

• 1998 - Techniques de reproduction et reproduction de la société Japonaise. Anthropologie et sociétés, 22(3): 59-84.

• 1998 - Menopause: Lessons from Anthropology. Psychosomatic Medicine, 60: 410-419.

• 1998 - Breast Cancer: Reading the Omens. Anthropology Today 14(4): 7-16.

• 1998 - Deconstructing the Change: Female Maturation in Japan and North America.  In Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions), Richard A. Shweder, ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, pp. 45-74.

• 1998 - Situating Women in the Politics of Health. In The Politics of Women's Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy, Susan Sherwin, ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 48-63.

• 1998 - Anomalous Women and Political Strategies for Aging Societies. In The Politics of Women's Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy. Susan Sherwin, ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 178-204.

• 1998 - Anomalous Ageing: Managing the Postmenopausal Body. Body and Society, 4(1): 35-61.

• 1998 - Introduction. In Pragmatic Women and Body Politics. Edited with Patricia Kaufert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-27.

• 1998 - Perfecting Society: Reproductive Technologies, Genetic Testing, and the Planned Family in Japan. In Pragmatic Women and Body Politics. Edited with Patricia Kaufert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 206-239.

• 1998 - Co-author. The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales. The Lancet, 351: 1950-1952.

• 1998 - Co-author. The Case for 'Presumed Consent' in Organ Donation. The Lancet, 351: 1650-1652.

• 1997 - Commentary on “Controlling Processes: Tracing the Dynamic Components of Power” by Laura Nader. Current Anthropology, 38(5): 729-730.

• 1997 - Co-author.  Should Organs from Patients in Permanent Vegetative State be Used for Transplantation? The Lancet, 350: 1320-1321.

• 1997 - Deadly Disputes: Hybrid Selves and the Calculation of Death in Japan and North America. Culture, 17(1-2): 27-42.

• The Human Genome Diversity Project: A Perspective from Cultural Anthropology.  In Human DNA: Law and Policy: International and Comparative Perspectives. Bartha Maria Knoppers, Claude M. Laberge and Marie Hirtle, eds. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, pp. 229-237.

• 1997 - Medicalization of Women's Third Age. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, 18: 81-86.

• 1997 - Menopause in Cross-Cultural Perspective. The Newsletter of The Japan Menopause Society, 3(3): 3-4.

• 1997 - Life Cycle Transitions. Encyclopedia of Human Biology Second Edition, Volume 5.  Academic Press Inc., pp. 293-305.

• 1997 - Making Difference Matter: Decentering the Natural Body. Configurations, 2: 267-292.

• 1997 - Views of Japanese Women on Menopause: A Discussion Based on Cultural Differences with Canada and America. The Journal of the Japan Menopause Society 5(1): 53-59.

• 1997 - Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America and Japan. In Social Suffering. Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das and Margaret Lock, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 207-244.

• 1997 - The Unnatural as Ideology: Contesting Brain Death in Japan. In Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives. Pamela Asquith, Arne Kalland, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.121-144.

• 1996 - Death in Technological Time: Locating the End of Meaningful Life. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10: 575-600.

• 1996 - Keeping the Pressure off the Japanese Health Care System: The Contribution of Middle Aged Women. In Containing Health Care Costs in Japan. John Campbell and Naoko Ikegami, eds. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, pp. 207-225.

• 1996 - Culture politique et vécu du viellissement des femmes au Japon et en Amérique.  Sociologie et sociétés, 28(2): 119-140.

• 1996 - Ripensando il corpo della morte: il dibattito in Nord America e Giappone. In Mariella Pandolfi, ed. Perch‚ il corpo: Utopia, sofferenza, desiderio. Rome: Meltemi, pp. 30-56.

• 1996 - Ideology and Subjectivity: Midlife and Menopause in Japan and North America. In Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry. Richard Jessor, Anne Colby and Richard Schweder, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 339-369.

• 1996 - Centering the Household: The Remaking of Female Maturity in Japan. In Anne Imamura, ed., Re-Imaging Japanese Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 73-103.

• 1996 - Deadly Disputes: Ideologies and Brain Death in Japan. In Stuart Youngner, Renée Fox and Laurence O'Connell, eds., Organ Transplantation: Meanings and Realities. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 142-167.

• 1996 - A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent, with Nancy Scheper-Hughes. In Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method. Tom Johnson and Caroline Sargent, eds. New York: Greenwood Press, Second Revised Edition, pp 41-70.

• 1996 - Anthropology and Medicine. In Behavior and Medicine. Danny Wedding, ed. C.V. Mosby, Second Revised Edition, pp. 444-459.

• 1996 - Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America and Japan.  Deadalus, 125: 207-244.

• 1995 - La menopause: un événement physiologique normal ou une maladie? In La ménopause: prise en charge globale et traitement. J. Lorrain, L. Plouffe Jr., V. Ravnikar, L. Speroff and N. Watts, eds. St-Hyacinthe: Edisem/Maloine, pp. 57-62.

• 1995 - Transcending Mortality: Organ Transplants and the Practice of Contradictions.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 9: 390-395.

• 1995 - Contesting the Natural in Japan: Moral Dilemmas and Technologies of Dying. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 19: 1-38.

• 1995 - The Return of the Patient as Person: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the Alleviation of Suffering in North America. In History of the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Y. Kawakita, S. Sakai and Y. Otsuka, eds. Tokyo: Ishiyaku EuroAmerica Inc., pp. 99-130.

• 1995 - Josei no Kônenki to Kôrei Shakai. In Kindai to Gendai Nihon to Josei. H. Wakita and S. Hanley, eds. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, pp. 597-623.

• 1994 - Japan: Glimpses of Everyday Life. In Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals. M. and C. Ember and D. Levinson, eds. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall/Simon & Shuster Custom Publishing, pp. 51-78.

• 1994 - Menopause in Cultural Context. Experimental Gerontology, 29(3/4): 307-317.

• 1994 - Interrogating the Human Genome Diversity Project. Social Science & Medicine, 39(5): 603-606.

• 1994 - Kônenki wa masani “Jinsei o keikaku suru jiki” (Menopause is certainly a “time for life planning”). Igakukai Shinbun, 2079: 2-3.

• 1994 - Contests with Death: Ideologies of Nationalism and Internationalism in Japan. In Life and Death Under High Technology Medicine. Ian Robinson, ed. Manchester University Press, pp. 169-188.

• 1994 - Social and Historical Aspects of Maternal and Child-Health in Japan, with Naoko Miyaji. Deadalus, 123(4): 87-112.

• 1993 - Education and Self Reflection: Teaching About Culture, Health and Illness. In Ralph Masi, Lynette Mensah and Keith A. McLeod, eds., Health and Cultures: Policies, Professional Practice and Education, Volume 1. Oakville, CA: Mosaic Press, p. 139-158.

• 1993 - The Politics of Mid-Life and Menopause: Ideologies of the Second Sex in North America and Japan. In Knowledge, Power & Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life. Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 330-363.

• 1993 - Cultivating the Body: Anthropology and Epistemologies of Bodily Practice and Knowledge. Annual Review of Anthropology, 22: 133-155.

• 1993 - Jinruigaku no Shiten kara Iryôhi Kôzô o Miru (The structure of medical payments from an anthropological point of view). Shaki Hoken Jumpô, 7: 19-20.

• 1993 - Hokubei no Kônenki, Nihon no Kônenki (Menopause in North America, menopause in Japan). Nichibo Iho 46: 14-16.

• 1993 - Healthy Disputes: Some Reflections on the Practice of Medical Anthropology in Canada. Health and Canadian Society/Santé et Société Canadienne, 1: 147-175.

• 1993 - The Concept of Race: An Ideological Construct. Trans-cultural Psychiatric Research Review, 30: 203-227.

• 1993 - Ideology, Female Midlife, and the Greying of Japan. Journal of Japanese Studies, 19(1): 43-78.

• 1992 - Symptoms of Indolence: The Rhetoric of Middle Age and Menopause in Japan. In Japanese Bibliographies: Life Histories, Life Cycles, Life Stages. Vienna S. Formanek and S. Linhart, eds. Der Osterreichischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften, pp. 211-240.

• 1991 - Nerves and Nostalgia: Greek-Canadian Immigrants and Medical Care in Quebec. In Anthropologies of Medicine: A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives. Beatrice Pfleiderer and Gilles Bibeau, eds. Sonderband: Curare, Special Volume #7, pp. 87-103.

• 1991 - Nerves and Nostalgia: Greek-Canadian Immigrants and Medical Care in Quebec.  Curare, 7: 87-103.

• 1991 - Anthropology and Medicine. In Behavior and Medicine. Danny Wedding, ed. C.V. Mosby, Revised Edition 1994, pp. 304-341.

• 1991 - Contested Meanings of the Menopause. The Lancet, 337: 1270-1291.

• 1991 - The Message in the Bottle: Illness and the Micro-politics of Resistance”, with Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Journal of Psychohistory, 18: 409-432.

• 1991 - Hot Flushes in Cultural Context: The Japanese Case as a Cautionary Tale for the West. Progress in Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, Volume 6. The Climacteric Hot Flush. Karger, pp. 40-60.

• 1991 - Discussion of P. Asquith's “The Japanese Idea of Soul as Evidenced by Kuyo Services”. In Discovering Japan: Issues for Canadians. Don V. Daly and Tom T. Sekine, eds. Captus University Publications, pp.189-193.

• 1991 - Flawed Jewels and National Dis/order: Narratives on Adolescent Dissent in Japan.  Festschrift for George DeVos. Journal of Psychohistory, 18: 507-531.

• 1990 - New Japanese Mythologies: Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Housewife in Japan.  In Rethinking Japan. A. Boscaro, F. Gatti and M. Raveri, eds. Folkestone, Kent: Japan Library Ltd., Volume 11, pp. 197-214.

• 1990 - Restoring Order to the House of Japan. Wilson Quarterly Autumn, 42-49.

• 1990 - Les trésors perdus: Ordre/désordre social et récits de révolte des adolescents japonais. Anthropologie et Sociétés, 14: 77-96.

• 1990 - Cultural Construction of the Menopausal Syndrome: The Japanese Case, with Patricia Kaufert and Penny Gilbert. The Japanese Journal of Nursing Research, 23(2): 80(216)-92(228).

• 1990 - Nerves and nostalgia: The expression of distress among Greek-Canadian immigrant women, with Pamela Dunk. Canadian Family Physician, 36: 253-258.

• 1990 - Rationalization of Japanese herbal medication: The hegemony of pluralism. Human Organization, 49: 41-47.

• 1990 - A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent, with Nancy Scheper-Hughes. In Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method. Tom Johnson and Caroline Sargent, eds. New York: GreenwoodPress, pp. 47-72.

• 1990 - On Being Ethnic: The Politics of Identity Breaking and Making in Canada, or Nevra on Sunday. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 14: 237-252.

• 1990 - Reaching Consensus about Death: Heart Transplants and Cultural Identity in Japan, with Christina Honde. In Social Sciences Perspectives on Medical Ethics. George Weisz, ed. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 99-119.

• 1989 - A Nation at Risk: Interpretations of School Refusal in Japan. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference of the Japan Social Sciences Association of Canada.

• 1989 - Bioethics in North America: The Rhetoric of Individual Autonomy and Freedom.  Proceedings of the First US-Japan Health Behavioral Science Conference.

• 1989 - Words of Fear, Words of Power: Nerves and the Awakening of Political Consciousness. Medical Anthropology, 11: 79-90.

• 1989 - Castigations of a Selfish Housewife: National Identity and Menopausal Rhetoric in Japan. Kroeber Anthropology Society Papers, 69-70: 1-13.

• 1988 - Cultural Construction of Menopause: The Japanese Case, with Patricia Kaufert and Penny Gilbert. Maturitas, 10: 317-332.

• 1988 - Reaching Consensus About Death: Heart Transplants and Cultural Identity in Japan.  Society/Société Newsletter of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, 13(1): 15-26.

• 1988 - Japanese Mythologies: Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Housewife in Japan. American Ethnologist, 15: 43-61.

• 1988 - Round Table: Breast Cancer, The Japanese Experience. Bamboo (in Japanese), 1: 50-60.

• 1988 - The Selfish Housewife and Moral Panic in Japan. Women in International Development Publication Series. Michigan State University.

• 1988 - A Nation at Risk: Interpretations of School Refusal in Japan. In Biomedicine Examined. Margaret Lock and Deborah R. Gordon, eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 377-414.

• 1988 - Introduction. In Biomedicine Examined. Margaret Lock and Deborah R.Gordon, eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 3-10.

• 1988 - Commentary on Psychosocial Models of the Climacteric. In The Climacteric and Beyond, Proceedings of the 5^th International Congress on Menopause. L. Zichella, M.I. Whitehead and P.A. Van Keep, eds. New Jersey: Parthenon Publishing Group.

• 1987 - Nihon to Canada Ni Okeru Heikeiki No Shjô to Heikei ni Taisuru Kangaekata ni Kansuru Hikaku Kenkyû (A Comparative Study into Menopausal Symptomatology and Ideas about Menopause in Japan and Canada). SanFujinKa no Sekai, 39: 47-53.

• 1987 - Illness: A New Approach. Life Science (in Japanese), 10: 12-19 .

• 1987 - Protests of a Good Wife and Wise Mother: The Medicalization of Distress in Japan.  In Health and Medical Care in Japan: Cultural and Social Dimensions. Edward Norbeck and Margaret Lock, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 130-157.

• 1987 - Introduction. In Health and Medical Care in Japan: Cultural and Social Dimensions. Edward Norbeck and Margaret Lock, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 1-23.

• 1987 - The Cultural Construction of Menopause in Japan. In Regards Anthropologiques en Psychiatrie. Ellen Corin, S. Lamarre, P. Migneault and M. Tousignant, eds. Montreal: Girame, pp. 25-43.

• 1987 - The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology, with N. Scheper-Hughes. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, n.s. 1: 6-41.

• 1987 - DSM III as a Culture-Bound Classificatory System: A Response to Raymond Prince's DSM III and the Culture-Bound Syndromes. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 11: 35-42.

• 1986 - Reforming Medical Education: Towards a Broadening of Attitudes, with Joseph Lella. In Illness Behavior: A Multidisciplinary Model.  S. McHugh and T.M. Vallis, eds. Plenum Publishing Corp., pp. 47-70.

• 1986 - Speaking 'Truth' to Illness: Metaphors, Reification and a Pedagogy for Patients.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 17: 137-140.

• 1986 - My Nerves are Broken: The Communication of Suffering in a Greek-Canadian Community. In Health and Canadian Society. D. Coburn, et al., eds. Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd., pp. 295-313.

• 1986 - Iryôjinruigaku; kenko to byôki no bunkateki haikei (Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in Cultural Context). Japanese Journal of Health Behavioral Science, 1: 159-197.

• 1986 - Comparative Studies of Menopause, Guest Editor for a Special Edition of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 10: 1-5.

• 1986 - Ambiguities of Aging: Japanese Experience and Perceptions of Menopause. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 10: 23-46.

• 1986 - Ningen no Kenko Kôdô no Kokusai Hikaku (Comparative Studies in Human Health Behavior). In Kurashi ni Musubitsuita iryô o Kangaeru (The Relationship Between Life Style and Medical Treatment). Proceedings of the Second International Nursing Study Meeting. Tokyo: Zaidan Hojin Kango Kôryû Kyôkai, pp. 36-60.

• 1986 - Plea for Acceptance: School Refusal Syndrome in Japan. Social Science & Medicine, 23: 99-112.

• 1986 - Introduction to special issue “American Medicine Center and Periphery”. Social Science & Medicine, 22: 931-932.

• 1986 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Menopause, with Patricia Kaufert, Sonja McKinlay et al. Social Science & Medicine, 22: 1285-1289.

• 1985 - Bunka Jinruigaku to Kanpô (Cultural Anthropology and Kanpô). Kango Kenkyû (Kanpô Research), 12: 2-10.

• 1985 - The Impact of the Chinese Model on Japan, or How the Younger Brother Comes of Age. Social Science & Medicine 21: 945-950.

• 1985 - Models and Practice in Medicine: Menopause as Syndrome or Life Transition. In Physicians of Western Medicine: Five Cultural Studies. R.A. Hahn and A.D. Gaines, eds. Boston: D. Reidel Co., pp. 115-139, (revised and expanded version of 1982 paper).

• 1984 - Treating the Japanese Elderly: The Masking of a Social Problem. Opportunity, Constraint, and Change: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Colson. Kroeber Anthropology Society papers, nos. 63 & 64, pp. 84-94.

• 1984 - Tatemae to Honne to Nihon igaku no Rinri (Ethics in Japanese Medicine). Kango Kenkyû (Japanese Journal of Nursing Research), 28(1): 244-24.

• 1984 - Ryôsai Kenbo no teikô (Protests of a Good Wife and Wise Mother: Somatization and Medicalization in Modern Japan). Kitan Jinruigaku Kyoto daigaku Jinruigaku Kenkyûkai (Issues in Anthropology, Kyoto University Group for Research in Anthropoogy). Kodansha, Spring, 15(I): 36-60.

• 1984 - The Relationship Between Culture and Health or Illness. In Working with the Family in Primary Care: A Systems Approach to Health and Illness. Janet Christie-Seely, ed. New York: Praeger, pp. 73-92.

• 1984 - Licorice in Leviathan: Traditional Japanese Medication, Biomedicine, and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (special issue on biomedicine in Asia), 8: 121-139.

• 1983 - East Asian Medicine and Health Care for the Japanese Elderly. Pacific Affairs, 57(1): 65-73.

• 1983 - Making the Strange Familiar: Japanese Responses to Social Change. Western Journal of Medicine, 139: 829-834.

• 1982 - Models and Practice in Medicine: Menopause as Syndrome or Life Transition.  Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 6: 261-280.

• 1982 - Exposing the Hidden Curriculum: Teaching Behavioral Sciences in Medicine.  Medical Anthropology Newsletter, 14: 19-21.

• 1982 - Traditional and Popular Attitudes Toward Mental Health and Illness in Japan.  In Cultural Conception of Mental Health and Therapy. G. White and A. Marsella, eds. Boston: D. Reidel Co., pp. 215-233.

• 1981 - Japanese Psychotherapeutic Systems: On Acceptance and Responsibility. Review article for Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 5: 303-312.

• 1980 - Gaikokujin no Mita Nihon no Kanpô (Japanese Herbal Medicine From the Point of View of a Foreigner), interviewed by Yasuo Otsuka, M.D., President, Japan East Asian Medical Association. Kanpô Igaku, 8: 3-10.

• 1980 - The Organization and Practice of East Asian Medicine in Japan: Continuity and Change.  Social Science & Medicine 14B: 245-253.

• 1980 - An Examination of the Influence of Traditional Therapeutic Systems on the Practice of Cosmopolitan Medicine in Contemporary Japan. American Journal of Chinese Medicine 8: 221-229.

• 1980 - L'homme-machine et l'homme-microcosme: L'approche occidentale et l'approche Japonaise des soins médicaux. Annales Sept-Oct, 35th year, (5): 1116-1136.

• 1979 - Pluralism or Integration: Medical Practice in Contemporary Japan. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Asian Studies, Asian Research Service, Hong Kong, pp. 451-459.

• 1978 - Man as Machine or Man as Microcosm: A Comparison of Western and Traditional Japanese Approaches to Patient Care. Nihon Ishigaku Zasshi, 27: 1-31.

• 1978 - Scars of Experience: The Art of Moxibustion in Japanese Medicine and Society.  Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2: 151-175.

BOOK REVIEWS

• 1995 - The Most Useful Gift, Jeffrey Prottas. Hastings Center Report, 26: 41-42.

• 1990 - The Anatomy of Melancholy: Review of Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder, Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good, eds. Reviews in Anthropology, 15: 171-179.

• 1989 - Health and Illness in Changing Japanese Society, Kyoichi Sonoda. Social Science & Medicine, 28: 997-1002.

• 1989 - Procuring Organs for Transplant: The Debate over Non Heart Beating Cadaver Protocols, Robert M. Arnold, Stuart J. Youngner, Renie Shapiro, and Carol Mason Spicer, eds. Medical Humanities Review, 10(1): 51-55.

• 1988 - Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China, Arthur Kleinman. Man, 23: 574-576.

• 1988 - Becoming Japanese: The World of the Pre-School Child, Joy Hendry. Man, 23: 388-389.

• 1988 - Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan, Ann Bowman Jannetta. Journal of Japanese Studies, 14: 520-526.

• 1987 - The Cultural Transition: Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan, M.I. White and S. Polak, eds. Social Science and Medicine, 25: 525-526.

• 1986 - Hard-Earned Lives: Accounts of Health and Illness from East London, Jocelyn Cornwall. American Ethnologist, 13: 594.

• 1986 - Dr. Willis in Japan, 1862-1877: British Medical Pioneer, Hugh Cortazzi. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 60(4): 607-608.

• 1986 - Sources of Illness and Healing in South Asian Regional Literatures, Beatrice Pfleiderer & G.D. Sontheimer, eds. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 23: 150-153.

• 1985 - Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan, E. Ohnuki-Tierney. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 20: 118-121.

• 1985 - Family Planning in Japanese Society, Samuel Coleman. Social Science & Medicine, 20: 433.

• 1985 - Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment, Takie Lebra. American Ethnologist, 12: 121-22.

• 1983 - Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience, Gananath Obeyesekere. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, XX(4): 266-269.

• 1982 - Normal and Abnormal in Chinese Culture, Arthur Kleinman and T. Lin, eds. Medical Anthropology Newsletter, 13: 22-23.

• 1982 - When the Twain Meet: The Rise of Western Medicine in Japan, John Z. Bowers.  ISIS, 73: 459-460.

• 1981 - Noguchi and His Patrons, Isabel R. Plesset. Monumenta Nipponica, XXXVI(2): 227-228.

• 1980 - The Tale of the Nisan Shamaness: A Manchu Folk Epic, Margaret Novak and Stephen Durant. Philosophy East and West, 30: 407-409.

• 1980 - Culture and Curing: Anthropological Perspectives on Traditional Medical Beliefs and Practices, Peter Morley and Roy Wallis. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review.

• 1979 - The Delivery of Health Services in the People's Republic of China, Peter Wilenski.  Medical Anthropology Newsletter, 11: 18-19.

• 1978 - Medicine in Chinese Cultures: Comparative Studies of Health Care in Chinese and Other Societies, Arthur Kleinman, P. Kunstadter, E. Russell Alexander, J. Gale, eds.  Medical Anthropology Newsletter, 9: 10-11.

• 1978 - The Cosmological and Performative Significance of a Thai Cult of Healing Through Meditation, S.J. Tambiah. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 15: 167-169.

• 1977 - Tibetan Medicine, Ven. Rechnung Rinpoche. Medical Anthropology Newsletter, 8: 29-30.

• 1976 - Acupuncture and Moxibustion: A Handbook for the Barefoot Doctors of China, and Acupuncture Theory, by Mary Austin, and Acupuncture and Body Energies, by William A. McGarey. Codex Shambhala, 4: 14-15.

• 1975 - Acupuncture Made Easy: A Practical Clinical Reader, compiled by the School of Traditional Medicine, Peking, China, and Finger Acupressure, by Pedro Chan. Codex Shambhala, 4: 11.

 IN PRESS

• Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life. Co-edited with Judith Farquhar. Duke University Press.

• Medicalization: An Expansive Concept. In N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes, eds., Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

• Genetic susceptibility and Alzheimer’s Disease: the penetrance and uptake of genetic knowledge, with Janalyn Prest and Stephanie Lloyd. In, L.Cohen and A. Leibing eds., The Anthropology of Alzheimer’s Disease. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

•  “The Final Disruption? Biopolitics of Postmenopausal Life. In Disruptions and Interuptions: Revisiting Gender and Reproduction. Michigan University Press.

• “The Molecularized Mind and the Search for Incipient Dementia,” Special Issue, Société et Santé.

IN PREPARATION

• Social Ramification of Testing for Susceptibility Genes, with Adam Hedgecoe, in J. Bollinger et al. eds. Do We Have a Pill for That? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Development, Use, and Evaluation of Drugs in the Treatment of Dementia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

• Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century, with Vinh-Kim Nguyen. New York: Blackwells Press.

• “Biomedical Technologies and Everyday Life: Cultural Horizons and Contested Boundaries.” In Encyclopedia of Science Studies, 2nd Edition. Co-editors, Michael Lynch, Judy Wajcman and Olga Amsterdamska. MIT Press.

• “Tinkering with the Natural: Lessons from Japan for an Anthropology of the Body.” In J. Hendry ed. Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy:Views from the Anthropology of Japan. New York: Routledge.

INVITED LECTURES (A SELECTION) 

• 2006 - “Molecular Genomics and the Molecularized Mind: Confronting Nature/Nurture Revisionism,” Distinguished Lecture, General Anthropology Division, American Anthropological Association, Washington (December).

• 2005 - “Situatiing the APOE gene: Grappling with a Shape-Shifter” Center for Genetics and Society, University of California, Los Angeles (October).

• 2005 - “Molecularization of Incipient Dementia: Medicalization of Middle Aged Minds,” Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Public Health, Florianopolis (July).

• 2005 - “The Final Disruption? The Biopolitics of Postmenopausal Life”  Center for Gender Studies, Ann Arbor Michigan University (May).

• 2005 - “The Future is Now: Postgenomics, Embodied Risk, and the Search for Prodromal Dementia,” Cambridge University (April)

• 2005 - “Genetic Testing for Alzheimer’s Disease,” Memory Clinic, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (February)

• 2004 - Robert Vogel Alumni Lecture series “Social Repercussions of Genetic Testing for Complex Diseases,” McGill, Montreal, Quebec (November)

• 2004 - “The Eclipse of the Gene and the Return of Divination, “Plenary talk, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland (October)

• 2004 - “The Eclipse of the Gene and the Return of Divination,” Annual meeting of the Consortium for Economics, Society, and Genetics (CESAGen),  Royal Society, London, UK (October)

• 2004 - “In Search of Prodromal Dementia: Relocating the Space of Prediction, “ 4S/EASST biannual meeting,  Public Proofs, Science, Technology and Democracy, Paris, France (September)

• 2004 - 9^th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders, Poster presentation, “Qualitative Assessement of Impact of Genetic Testing for Late onset Alzheimer’s Disease,” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (LOAD) (July)

• 2004 - Three invited lectures: “Psychological Issues Associated with Organ Donation and Transplantation,” “Social Repercussions of Genetic Testing for Late-Onset Complex Disease,” “Culture, Biology and Menopause,” Association of Turkish Psychiatrists Annual Meeting, Trabzon  (June)

• 2004 - “Culture and Local Biologies: New Horizons in Medical Anthropology”, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (May)

• 2004 - “Brain Death and Organ Transplants: Divergent Practices in Japan and North America”, Hôpital Nôtre Dame, Department of Nephrology, Montreal, Quebec, televised to Hôpital Saint Luc and Hôtel Dieu (April)

• 2004 - “Recognition of Brain Death in Japan and North America: Divergent Histories”, University of Minnesota, Faculty of Medicine, Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April)

• 2004 - “Inventing a New Death and Making it Believable”, Princeton University, Department of Anthropology, Princeton, New Jersey (March)

• 2004 - “Social Ramifications of Testing for Susceptibility Genes”, Johns Hopkins University, Medical Faculty, Department of Continuing Education workshop on Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, Baltimore, Maryland (March)

• 2004 - “Savoring Complexity and Resisting Hype: Genomics and Alzheimer’s disease”, Invited lecture, Center for Science and Society, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (March)

• 2003 - “Buddhism and Bioethics in Japan”, Special seminar on Bioethics in Japan, McGill Faculty of Religious Studies, Montreal, Quebec (October)

• 2003 - “Of Trials and Tribulations: an update on Encounters with Aging”, McGill Center for Research and Teaching on Women, Montreal, Quebec (September)

• 2003 - "Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, The Mielke Lecture in Biomedical Ethics, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin (May)

• 2003 - “Savoring Complexity and Resisting Hype: Genomics and Alzheimer’s disease”, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, John’s Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (February)

• 2003 - Plenary lecture “Science and Society”, Genome Canada sponsored conference on Ethical Social and Legal issues associated with genomics, Montreal, Quebec (February)

• 2003 - “Reinventing Death and Making it Believable”, Humanities Lectureship, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan (January)

• 2002 - “Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death in Japan and North America”, Invited lecture, Kalamazoo College Liberal Arts Colloquium, Lecture series in  Science and Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan (November)

• 2002 - “Savouring Complexity and Resisting Hype: Molecular Genetics and Alzheimer’s Disease”, invited lecture, symposium on Current Issues in Medical Anthropology Faculty of Medicine and Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (October)

• 2002 - “Tinkering with the Natural: Lessons from Japan for an Anthropology of the Body”, Plenary lecture for the 14th meeting of the Japan Anthropology Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (May)

• 2002 - Workshop on Globalization and Pharmaceuticals, Discussant of papers given under section entitled Drug Research, Ethical Regimes, and the State, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts (May)

• 2002 - “Brain Death and Organ Procurement: Lingering Doubts”, Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Allan Memorial Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (April)

• 2002 - “Ethnographic Approach to the Procurement and Exchange of Body Parts for Medical Purposes”, 8^th Annual Qualitative Health Research Conference, Banff, Alberta (April)

• 2002 - “Savouring Complexity: Anthropology and the Life Industry”, Centennial Celebrations, Department of Anthropology, Berkeley, California (April)

• 2002 - “Old Hazards and New Risks in a Postgenomic World”, University Lectureship, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England (February)

• 2002 - “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, The University of Reading, Berkshire, England (February)

• 2002 - “Savouring Complexity and Resisting Hype: Molecular Genetics and Alzheimer’s Disease”, Brunel College, University of London, London, England (February)

• 2002 - “Genetic Testing and its Impact on Families and Society, Department of Pharmacology”, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (January)

• 2001 - “Dying Twice: Intensive Care Units and the Discourse about Organ Procurement”, Department of Medical History, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (June)

• 2001 - “Body Work: The Moral Economy of Enhancement Technologies”, Anthropology Department Seminar, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel (April)

• 2001 - “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, Anthropology Department Seminar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (April)

• 2001 - “Divining the Future: Women’s Bodies, the New Genetics, and Laissez-Faire Genetics”, plenary lecture at the 10tg Annual Conference of the Lafer Center for Gender Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (April)

• 2001 - “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, Anthropology Department Seminar, University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Notre Dame, Indiana (March)

• 2001 - “Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death”, History of Science Department Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (March)

• 2000 - “Local Biologies, Material Difference, and Enhancement Technologies”, Symposium on “Le Corps, Catégorie Historique”, keynote lecture, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (November)

• 2000 - The Ida Beam Lecture, “Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death in Japan and North America”, also “Utopias of Health, Eugenics and Germline Engineering”, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (October)

• 2000 - “Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death”, Anthropology Department Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (October)

• 2000 - “On Being Good-as-Dead in a World Short of Organs”, delivered at a conference “Who Owns the Body?”, University of California, Berkeley, California (September)

• 2000 - “Local Biologies and Female Aging”, and “Living Cadavers and the Reinvention of Death”, invited lectures given at the International Women's University, Hanover, Germany (September)

• 2000 - “Making up the Good-as-Dead in a Utilitarian World”, invited plenary lecture at the “5th Conference on Death, Grieving and Loss”, University of Jerusalem, Israel (July)

• 2000 - “Alienation of Body Parts and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines”, invited plenary lecture, Feschrift in honour of Professor Ronald Frankenberg, Brunel College, Middlesex, England (June)

• 2000 - “Anthropological Approaches to Menopause”, Invited plenary presentation, conference on “Methodology in Obstetrical and Gynecological Research”, Sardinia, Italy (June)

• 2000 - “Making up the Good-as-Dead in a Utilitarian World”, American School for Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico (April 30 - May 5)

• 2000 - “Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death”, Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts (April)

• 2000 - “New Utopias and Enhancement Technologies”, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England (April)

• 2000 - “Anthropological Approches to Aging”, Hutchinson Lecture in Gerontology, Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds at the Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (April)

• 2000 - “Anthropology of Medicine: From Ethnomedicine to Biopolitics, Boundary Transgressions, and Beyond”, Plenary Speaker at the Joint Meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology and Applied Anthropology, “Medical Anthropology for the New Millenium”, San Francisco, California (March)

• 2000 - Commentator on “Genomics: Human Diversity, Genetic Patents and Ownership”, Symposium on Science, Ethics, and Society - The 25th Anniversary of the Asilomar Conference, Monterey, California (February)

• 2000 - Invited discussant at the Canadian Biotechnology Strategy Conference and Women's Health at York University, Toronto, Ontario (February)

• 2000 - “Neocolonialism and the Human Genome Diversity Project”, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto; “Living Cadavers and Organ Transplant Technology”, Department of Religion, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario (February)

• 1999 - Invited paper presented at the 9th International Menopause Society World Congress on Menopause, “Anthropological Approaches to Menopause”, Yokohama, Japan (October)

• 1999Wenner-Gren Conference on “Anthropology at the End of the Century”, Baja California Sur, Mexico (October)

• 1999 - “Anthropological/Cultural Context of Menopause”, presented at the Menopause Symposium at the Illinois Department of Public Health, Office of Women's Health, Springfield, Illinois (September)

• 1999 - “Living Cadavers and Organ Transplants”, and “Normal, Abnormal and the New Genetics”, invited lectures, Department of Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway (June)

• 1999 - Keynote lecture, “Body, Work and the Moral Economy of the New Genetics”, International Meeting of Medical Sociologists, Holloway College, London, England (June)

• 1999 - “Deadly Disputes: The Brain Death Problem in Japan”, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (May)

• 1999 - Keynote speaker at The Raymond Pearl Memorial Lecture, “Menopause and the Politics of Aging”, The Human Biology Association Meetings, Columbus, Ohio (April)

• 1999 - “On Dying Twice: Organ Transplants and the Commodification of Bodies in Japan and North America”, Joint Center for East Asian Studies at the Universities of Toronto and York, Toronto, Ontario (April)

• 1999 - “On Dying Twice: Organ Transplants and the Commodification of Bodies in Japan and North America”, The Lansdowne Lectures at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia (March)

• 1999 - “Genetic Diversity and the Politics of Difference”, The Lansdowne Lectures at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia (March)

• 1999 - “On Dying Twice: Organ Transplants and the Commodification of Bodies in Japan and North America”, East Asian Studies and Women's Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California (January)

• 1998 - “Genetic Diversity: The Politics of Difference”, International Symposium “Salute e Malattia: Metafore della Vita e della Societa”, Bologna, Italy (October)

• 1997 - “Perfecting Society: Culture and Reproductive Technology in Japan”, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (December)

• 1997 - “Contesting Brain Death: Japanese Responses to the New Death”, Grand Rounds, Intensive Care Unit, Milwaukee General Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October)

• 1997 - “Organ Transplants, Self, Others, and the Family in Japan”, Symposium in Honor of Robert J. Smith, “Tradition, Self and the Japanese Social Order”, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (September)

• 1997 - “Culture and the New Reproductive Technologies: The Japanese Case”, Seminar on “Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health”, Johannesburg, South Africa (June)

• 1997 - “Anthropology and Aging: Midlife and Menopause in Japan”, Department of Population & International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (April)

• 1997 - “The Politics of Health and Identity”, Rutgers University Second Symposium of the Rutgers Series on Self and Social Identity, Newark, New Jersey (April)

• 1997 - “Deadly Disputes: Redefining Death in Japan and North America” Grand Rounds, Children's Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (February)

• 1997 - "Mid Life and Menopause: Anthropological Approaches”, The Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, Washington D.C. (January)

• 1996 - “Immortalities, Technical and Social: Making Death Meaningful”, The Medical Cultures Series of the University Program in Cultural Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (December)

• 1996 - Japanese Modernization, symposium: “Technologies of Modernization”, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec (November)

• 1996 - Sesquicentennial Celebration, symposium: “Does the Body Matter?”, invited paper:  “Making Difference Matter: Situating the Body in Time and Space”, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York (October)

• 1996 - Department of Anthropology, “Playing with Death: The Culture of Organ Procurement in North America  and Japan”, York University, Toronto, Ontario (April)

• 1996 - Lectures in the Department of Anthropology and Department of Women's Studies, “Tinkering with Death for Organ Procurement: The Japanese and North American Debate”; “The Postmenopausal Body: Taking Control of Female Aging”, Memorial University, St. Johns, Newfoundland (March)

• 1996 - Workshop honoring Harumi Befu at the Center for East Asian Studies, “Improving on Nature: Moral Conflict and the Cultures of Technoscience”, Stanford University, Stanford, California (March)

• 1996 - Lecture at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies, “Disputing the Rhetoric of Risk: Women Aging in Japan and North America”, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (February)

• 1995 - “Cross Cultural Approaches to Menopause”, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (November)

• 1995 - “Menopause: Lessons from Anthropology”, invited speaker, North American Menopause Society (September)

• 1995 - “Aging in Japan” Presentation to Contactivity (a community support group for the elderly), Montreal, Quebec (May)

• 1995 - “Menopause in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Lessons for Canadian Health Care”, The T. Brian Catterill Memorial Lecture, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (May)

• 1995 - “Deadly Disputes: New Biomedical Technologies and the Redefining of Death in Japan and North America”, The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, California (April)

• 1995 - “Perfecting Society: Reproductive Technologies in Japan”, Women's Studies Program, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (April)

• 1995 - “Deadly Disputes: Redefining Death in Japan and North America”, Department of Anthropology, City College of New York, New York, New York (March)

• 1995 - “Japanese Modernity and the Brain Death Problem”, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario (March)

• 1995 - “Deadly Disputes: Redefining Death in Japan and North America”, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts (February)

• 1995 - “Biomedical Technologies and the Remaking of Death in Japan and North America” The Mark M. Horblit Colloquia in the History of Science, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts (February)

• 1994 - “Japanese Modernity and the Brain Death Problem”, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (October)

• 1994 - “Anthropology in a Moving World”, invited lecture, University of Rome, Rome, Italy (June)

• 1994 - “Reconsidering Individual Rights: Reproductive Technologies and the Japanese Family”, invited paper American Ethnological Society Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California (April)

• 1994 - “The Cultural Construction of Menopause in Japan and North America”, invited lecture, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas (April)

• 1994 - “Menopause in Cross Cultural Perspective” invited lecture, The Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the American Society for Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington D.C. (February)

• 1994 - “An Anthropological Approach to the Reconstruction of Death in Japan and Canada”, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (August)

• 1994 - The Cleveland Museum of Art, invited lecturer and commentary on performance by the Kanze Nôh troupe, Cleveland, Ohio (March)

• 1994 - “Reconstructing Death: Technological Change and Cultural Resistance”, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego, California (January)

• 1993 - “Foreign Workers in Japan: Gender, Civil Rights, & Community Response”, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii (December)

• 1993 - “What is the Domain of Medicine?”, invited paper, The Hastings Center, Workshop on the “Goals of Medicine”, Garrison, New York (December)

• 1993 - “Cultural Construction of the Body in Health and Illness: Lessons from Japan”, invited paper, Sixth Annual Health Policy Conference, Center for Health Services and Policy Research, Government of British Columbia (November)

• 1993 - “Deadly Disputes: Nationalism, Internationalism and the Remaking of Death in Japan”, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (November)

• 1993 - “Deadly Disputes: Nationalism, Internationalism and the Remaking of Death in Japan”, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (November)

• 1993 - “Encounters with Aging the Japanese Way”, Department of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia (November)

• 1993 - “The Medicalization of Menopause”, Fall Seminar Series, Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change, “Changing Concepts and Practices of Experiments”, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (November)

• 1993 - “Cultural Definitions of Health, Illness and Care”, Symposium on Models of Car in a Pluralistic Canada, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario (October)

• 1993 - “Towards Immortality: Technologies of the Body and Utopias of Health”, Margaret Mead Memorial Lecture, World Congress, World Federation of Mental Health, Tokyo, Japan (August)

• 1993 - “Female Middle Age: The Politics of Biology”, Conference on Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Human Development, MacArthur Foundation, Berkeley, California (June)

• 1993 - “Contests with Death: Ideologies of Nationalism and Internationalism in Japan”, 7th Japan Anthropology Workshop, Banff, Alberta (April)

• 1993 - “Menopause and Culture”, invited lecturer, Symposium on “Menopause and Women's Health”, sponsored by NIH and NIA, Washington (March)

• 1993 - “The Brain Death Debate in Japan”, Surgical Rounds Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (February)

• 1992 - “The Concept of Race: An Ideological Construct”, invited lecturer, Symposium on “Racism and Psychiatry”, Center for Transcultural Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (October)

• 1992 - “Resisting Brain Death: Reflections on the Japanese Debate”, invited lecturer, The Inaugural Roger Allan-Moore Lecture on “Values and Medicine: Ethical, Religious and Cultural Perspectives”, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts (May)

• 1992 - “Contests with Death: Ideologies of Nationalism and Internationalism in Japan”, invited lecturer, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (March)

• 1992 - “Restoring Order to the House of Japan: Modernity and the Japanese Family”, distinguished lecturer, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies and the American Friendship Commission, University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona (February)

• 1992 - “Reconstructing the Body in Contemporary Japan”, distinguished lecturer, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies and the American Friendship Commission, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico (February)

• 1992 - “Restoring Order to the House of Japan: Modernity and the Japanese Family”, distinguished lecturer, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies and the American Friendship Commission, State University of New Mexico, Las Cruces, New Mexico (February)

• 1992 - “Medicine in the Modern Age: Medical Ethics for a Changing World”, McGill Student Pugwash, invited presentation on “Alternative Medicine”, Montreal, Quebec (February)

• 1992 - York University, Department of Anthropology, “Mythologies of Mid-Life and Menopause in Japan and North America”, Toronto, Ontario (January)

• 1991 - “Contests with Death: Ideologies of Nationalism and Internationalism in Japan”, Fulbright Colloquium on “The Social Consequences of Life and Death under High Technology Medicine”, London (December)

• 1991 - Japan Overseas Development Agency, “Medical Anthropology and Health in the Developing World”, Tokyo, Japan (May)

• 1991 - Konan Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, series of five lectures on Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry, Shiga Prefecture, Japan (April)

• 1991 - Medical Anthropology Group, “Medical Anthropology: The Future”, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (April)

• 1990 - Keynote speaker, Canadian Public Health Association Meetings, “Multiculturalism and Health”, Toronto, Ontario (June)

• 1990 - “The Making of a Nation: School Refusal Syndrome in Japan”, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France (May)

• 1990 -  “Reading the Body: New Directions in Medical Anthropology”, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France (May)

• 1990 -  “Nerves and Nostalgia: The Expression of Distress among Greek Immigrant Workers to Montreal”, Rome University, Department of Anthropology (May)

• 1990 - Sigma Xi Lecture, “The Making of a Nation: School Refusal Syndrome in Japan”, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin (March)

• 1990 - Sigma Xi Lecture, “Body, Self and Society: Metaphors of Harmony and Conflict”, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin (March)

• 1990 - Sigma Xi Lecture, “Reaching Consensus about Death: Organ Transplants and Cultural Identity in Japan”, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin (March)

• 1990 - “Culture and the Concept of Brain Death: The Japanese Case”, East Carolina University, School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina (February)

• 1990 - Keynote speaker, Annual Meeting of the Ontario Psychiatric Association, “Migration, Multiculturalism and Mental Health” (January)

• 1989 - “The Making of a Nation: School Refusal Syndrome in Japan”, Bergen University, Department of Anthropology, Bergen, Norway (June)

• 1989 - “The Cultural Construction of Menopause in Japan”, Bergen University, Women's Studies program, Bergen, Norway (June)

• 1989 - “The Creation of Menopause as a Disease Category”, University of Oslo, Department of Anthropology, Oslo, Norway (May)

• 1989 - “Ambiguities of Aging in Japan”, University of Oslo, Department of Community Health, Oslo, Norway (May)

• 1989 - “Culture and Depression”, Grand Rounds, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (May)

• 1989 - Sigma Xi Lecture, “The Body, Self and Society: Metaphors of Belonging and Alienation”, University of New Hampshire (April)

• 1989 -  “A Nation at Risk: Interpretations of School Refusal in Japan”, Harvard University, Department of Anthropology, Boston, Massachusetts (April)

• 1989 - “The Culture of Japanese Medicine”, Japan Society, Boston, Massachusetts (April)

• 1989 - Women's Health Task force, “Ambiguities of Aging: Contemporary Attitudes Towards Menopause”, Department of Nursing, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (April)

• 1989 - Sigma Xi Lecture, “A Nation at Risk: Interpretations of School Refusal in Japan”, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (March)

• 1989 - “The Making of a Nation: The Rhetoric of School Refusal in Japan”, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology, Chicago, Illinois (January)

• 1988 - “The Past in the Present: A Look at East Asian Medicine in Modern Japan”, Japan Society, New York (November)

• 1988 - Sigma Xi Lecture, “Menopause and Aging in Japan: A Cautionary Tale for the West”, Hope College, Holland, Michigan (November)

• 1988 - Conference on Sickle Cell Anemia, “Illness, Culture, and Stigma”, Children's Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (October)

• 1988 - Invited speaker, Second Annual Japan Social Sciences Association of Canada Conference, “A Nation at Risk: Interpretations of School Refusal In Japan” (October)

• 1988 - Sigma Xi Lecture, “The Body, Self and Society: Metaphors of Belonging and Alienation”, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York (September)

• 1988 - “Concepts of Self, Health, and Illness: Health Care and Multiculturalism”, “Nursing Explorations: Nursing in a Multicultural Society”, School of Nursing, Center for Continuing Medical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (September)

• 1988 - Sigma Xi Lecture, “The Body, Self and Society: Metaphors of Belonging and Alienation”, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado (April)

• 1988 - Invited speaker, Case Western Reserve, Armington Lecture, “Making the Grade: School Refusal Syndrome in Japan” (February)

• 1987 - Invited speaker, “The Making of a Nation: School Refusal Syndrome in Japan” University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology and East Asian Studies Centre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (December)

• 1987 - Medical Sociology Research Group, “Menopause in Japan and Canada”, Tokyo, Japan (October)

• 1987 - “Culture and the Expression of Distress”, Department of Social Work, Staff Development Program, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (June)

• 1987 - “Culture and Depression”, Montreal Children's Hospital, Grand Rounds, Montreal, Quebec (February)

• 1986 - The Fourth Annual Agnes C. Turner Memorial Lecture, “Anthropological Aspects of Menopause”, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (September)

• 1986 - Plenary Speaker, Tenth Anniversary Conference of the British Medical Anthropology Society, “Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Family in Japan” (June)

• 1986 - “Self and Society: Concepts of Health and Illness in Japan”, Japan Week, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (September)

• 1986 - Invited speaker, “Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Family in Japan”, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anthropology, Baltimore, Maryland (September)

• 1986 - “Cultural Construction of Menopause”, Douglas Hospital, Department of Social Work, Development Program (February)

• 1986 - Center for Japanese and Korean Studies, “School Refusal Syndrome in Japan”, University of California, Berkeley, California (March)

• 1986 - Plenary speaker, Kroeber Anthropological Society Annual Meetings, “Ambiguities of Aging: Menopause in Japan”, University of California, Berkeley, California (March)

• 1986 - Series of four lectures sponsored by the University of Arkansas, public lecture: “Concepts of Person and Expression of Dissent in Modern Japan;” Baptist Medical Center: “Ambiguities of Aging: Japanese Perspectives on Menopause;” Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Gerontology: “Medical Anthropology in Japan and Canada” and “My Nerves are Broken: The Case of Greek-Canadian Immigrants in Montreal”, Little Rock, Arkansas (March)

• 1986 - “Anthropological Approaches to Menopause”, Department of Endocrinology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (April)

• 1986 - “The Expression of Distress Among Greek-Canadian Immigrants in Montreal”, Department of Social Work, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (April)

• 1986 - Conference on Menopause sponsored by Jabardo, “Menopause and Culture”, Ottawa, Ontario (May)

• 1985 - “Cultural Construction of Mental Illness”, Douglas Hospital, Education Committee Events, Montreal, Quebec

• 1985 - “Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Menopause”, McMaster University, Department of Anthropology, Hamilton, Ontario

• 1985 - “Cultural Influences on Symptom Presentation”, Montreal Children's Hospital, Genetics Rounds,

• 1985 - Emory University, Atlanta, Dept. of Anthropology, “Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Menopause”, Montreal, Quebec

• 1985 - Invited Speaker, 2nd International Conference on Illness Behavior: Issues in Measurement, Evaluation and Treatment, “Broadening Medical Attitudes”, Toronto, Ontario

• 1985 - Invited Speaker, Conference on Culture and Mental Health sponsored by Groupe Inter-Universitaire de Recherche en Anthropologie Médicale et en Ethno-psychiatrie, “Mental Health and the Menopause”, Montreal, Quebec

• 1985 - Grand Rounds, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Royal Victoria Hospital and Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec

• 1984 - Guest lecturer, “Anthropological Approaches to the Menopause”, Wellcome Institute, London, England (July)

• 1984 - Annual Public Lecture, “Psychological and Sociological Approaches to the Interpretation of Symptoms”, Seirokka Byôin Life Planning Center

• 1984 - Special seminar, “Jinruigaku to byôki: Karada de nayami o hyôgen suru”, University Anthropology Research Group, Kyoto, Japan

• 1984 - Kyodo News Service, interview and article in Japanese, “Medical Anthropology, Comparative Approaches to Health and Illness”, Tokyo, Japan (April)

• 1984 - Guest lecturer, 14th Annual Symposium on Asian Medicine, “Comparative Studies on the Expression and Interpretation of Emotions”, in Japanese, Osaka Daigaku, School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

• 1984 - Kyoto Kôjô Hokenkai (The Kyoto Industrial Workers Health Association), interview and article in Japanese, “Anthropological Approaches to Health and Illness” (April)

• 1984 - “Cross-Cultural Approaches to the Study of Depression” and “Teaching Behavioral Sciences in Medicine in North America”, in Japanese, Japanese National Institute of Mental Health

• 1984 - “The Comparative Study of Biomedical Systems” and “Teaching Behavioral Sciences in Medicine in North America”, in Japanese, Japanese Association of Medical Sociology

• 1983-1984 - Participation in Think Tank entitled, “Culture and the Body”, sponsored by Kyoto University, and special presentation, “The Body as a Metaphor of Distress”, in Japanese, Kyoto, Japan

• 1983-1984 - Series of ten lectures in Japanese on Medical Anthropology, The St. John's Professorship Lectures, Seirokka Byooin (St. Luke's Hospital), Tokyo, Japan

• 1983 - Alumni Association Lecture, Seirokka Byooin (St. Luke's Hospital), “Cultural Attitudes Towards Female Physiology: A Comparative Approach”, Tokyo, Japan

• 1983 - Symposium, “Cross-Cultural Approaches to Mental Health”, Douglas Hospital, Montreal, Quebec

• 1983 - “Application of Traditional Medicine in Biomedical Practice in Japan”, Duke University, Center for International Studies, Durham, North Carolina

• 1983 - “Transformation of a Social Problem into Biology: the Japanese Elderly”, Center for Japanese and Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California

• 19825 - The Conference on Palliative Care, “Cross-Cultural Approaches to Death and Grieving”, Montreal, Quebec

• 1982 - “Herbal Medication and the Drug Industry”, Department of Anthropology, SUNY, Plattsburgh, New York

• 1982 - “Public Health Policies and East Asian Medicine”, Public Health Policy Group, Tokyo, Japan

• 1982 - Interview for the Tokyo Weekender, “East Asian Medicine in Tokyo: Theory, Practice and Availability”

• 1982 - “The Study of Comparative Medical Systems”, Japanese Medical History Society, Tokyo, Japan

• 1982 - “Anthropological Approaches to Aging”, Geriatric rounds, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec

• 1982  - “Anthropological Approaches to Menopause”, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii

• 1981 - “Popular Conceptions of Mental Health in Japan”, Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

• 1981 - Keynote speaker, Clinical Day, “Aging in Japan”, Maimonides Home for the Elderly, Montreal, Quebec

• 1981 - Social Work Group, “Anthropology and the Labelling of Illnesses”, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec

• 1981 - Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO) lectures on anthropology and infant nutrition, McGill University

• 1980 - “The Anthropology of Biomedicine”, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

• 1980 - Keynote Speaker, “East Asian Medicine for the 1980's”, Michigan University, Asian Studies Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan

• 1980 - “Comparative Approaches to Aging”, Herzl Family Practice Unit, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec

• 1980 - Kellogg Foundation, “Culture, Health and Illness”, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec

• 1980 -  “Anthropology and Aging”, Geriatric rounds, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec

• 1980 - Osler Reporting Society, “Medical Practice in Japan”

• 1980  -      St. James Literary Society, “Traditional Japanese Medicine and its Contemporary Practice”

• 1979 - Montreal Society for the Arts, “The Role of Women in Modern Japan: Professional Housewife and Caretaker”, Montreal, Quebec

• 1979 - Montreal Chapter of the United Nations, “Nutrition and Development in Asia”, Montreal, Quebec

• 1976 - “Science as Traditional Asian Medicine”, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of History of Science and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

MEDIA ACTIVITIES  (A SELECTION) 

• 2002 - Interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation, “Changing Attitudes Towards  Death” (November)

• 2002 - Interview with CBC on Sunday Round-up, “Death in Modern Society” (May)

• 1999 - Video presentation, “Culture and Menopause”, Illinois Department of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois (November)

• 1997 - University of the Air, NHK Tokyo, “Women's Health in the 1990s”, one hour video

• 1996 - Quirks and Quarks, CBC Radio, The Human Genome Diversity Project

• 1995 - Six interviews with CBC, Canada-Japan Book Prize

• 1994 - WGBH - Nova program on menopause (April)

• 1994 - Interview with KPFA Radio about Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America, California

• 1993 - Consultant to Nova, program on menopause

• 1992 - CBC, The Journal, two-part program on menopause

• 1991 - BBC Television, advisor and participant on “Medicine at the Crossroads”

• 1990 - CBC “Open House” interview on “Attitudes Towards the Elderly in Japan”

• 1989 - CBC “Open House” interview on “Death, Dying and Organ Transplants in Japan”

• 1985 - National Film Board of Canada, film on menopause

• 1982 - Guest participant on CBC Radio Noon, discussion on menopause

• 1982 - Guest participant on CFCF TV “Looking Good”, discussion on new approaches in medical education.

SCHOLARLY PAPERS AND ORGANIZED SESSIONS (A SELECTION) 

• 2004 - “Beyond the Body Proper: Paying Attention to the Lived Body”, “Molecular Genetics, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the Disappearing Self”, “Biomedical Technologies, Body Commodification and the Self”, invited papers delivered at the XI National Social Psychiatry Congress, Turkish Psychiatric Association, Trabzon, Turkey (June)

• 2004 - “Mild Cognitive Impairment and Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease”, CIHR funded workshop, Department of Social Studies of Medicine (May)

• 2004 - “Race in the Age of Genomics”, invited discussant, London School of Economics, BIOS center (May)

• 2004 - "Genomics, Genetics, and Society: Crossing the Disciplinary Divides”, conference organizer, two day international workshop sponsored by the Institute of Genetics, CIHR, Toronto (April)

• 2003 - “Wandering Minds, Somatized Identities, and Faltering Genomics”, Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, President’s Panel (November)

• 2003 - “The Hype of Genomics and the Mirage of Health”, Plenary lecture, London School of Economics, BIOS Center, conference entitled “Vital Politics” (September)

• 2002 - “Savouring Complexity and Resisting Hype: Genomics and Alzheimer’s Disease”, invited panel, Society of Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana (November)

• 2002 - “Susceptibility Genes, Alzheimer’s Disease and the Translation of Knowledge Across Domains”, poster session, 8^th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders, Stockholm, Sweden (July)

• 2002 - “Should We Forget Alzheimer’s Disease?”, presentation to the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Population Health Program (October)

• 2001 - “Big Pharma, the Life Industry, and the Control of Bare Life”, invited panel, Society of Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C. (November)

• 2001 - “Of Mice and Men: Molecular Genetics and Alzheimer’s Disease”, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts (October)

• 2001 - “The Invention and Reinvention of Alzheimer’s Disease: Panel on Body, Memory, and Identity”, Joint Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society, American Ethnological Society and the Society for Cultural Anthropological, Montreal, Quebec (May)

• 2000 - American Anthropological Association Meetings, President's invited session on “Anthropology and Genetic Reductionism”, paper given “Genetic Bodies and the Decline of Culture: From Inborn Errors to Biological Markers”, San Francisco, California (November)

• 2000 - Keynote speaker at the Annual Meeting of Social Studies of Science and Technology, “Biomedical Technologies and Identity Transformations”, Vienna, Austria (October)

• 2000 - Co-organizer, “Animation and Cessation: Changing Definitions of Life and Death”, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico (May)

• 2000 - Symposium paper, “Making up the Good-as-Dead in a Utilitarian World: Animation and Cessation: Changing Definitions of Life and Death”, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico (May)

• 2000 - Organizer and invited participant at the Third International Symposium on Coma and Death, Havana, Cuba (February)

• 2000 - Paper presented at the Third International Symposium on Coma and Death, “Japan and the Brain Death Debate”, Havana, Cuba (February)

• 1999 - Panel discussant, Panel on Women's Health and Technological Innovation, American Ethnology Society Meetings, Portland, Oregon (March)

• 1999 - Panel Discussant, Panel on Eugenics in Japan, Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Massachusetts (March)

• 1998 - Panel Discussant, President's Panel on Women, Reproduction and Critical Approaches to Population Studies, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (December)

• 1998 - Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, “Out of the Ivory Pan into the Fire: Going Public with Anthropology”, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (December)

• 1998 - Paper presented at the workshop “Theorizing Bodies in Medical Practices”, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Paris, France (September)

• 1998 - Discussant, Panel on Asian Women and Health, The 14^th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (July)

• 1998 - Organizer of session at the AES/CASCA meetings on “Pragmatic Women and Body Politics”, Toronto, Ontario (May)

• 1997 - Panel organizer and paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, “Regimes of Value: The Commodification and Circulation of Bodies and Body Parts”, Washington, D.C. (November)

• 1996 - Paper presented at conference on “Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Susceptibility: The Science, the Ethics, the Future”,  “Social and Cultural Realities of Predicting Breast Cancer Risk”, Stanford University, San Francisco, California (November)

• 1996 - Paper presented at conference on DNA Sampling, Human Genetic Research: Ethical, Legal and Policy Approaches, “The Human Genome Diversity Project: Cautionary Notes from Cultural Anthropology” (September)

• 1996 - Organizer, symposium, “Cultures of Biomedical Technologies”, paper presented on “Japanese responses to the New Death”, Cambridge, England (July)

• 1996 - Invited speaker, plenary session “The Body in Society”, Learneds Conference, “Deadly Disputes: The Brain Death 'Problem' in Japan & North America”, Brock University, Saint Catharines, Ontario (May)

• 1996 - International Symposium on Brain Death, “Deadly Disputes: The Brain Death 'Problem' in Japan & North America”, Cuba (February)

• 1996 - Paper presented at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Montreal Children's Hospital, Rounds, “The Brain Death Debate in Japan”, Montreal, Quebec (January)

• 1995 - Panel organizer and paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, “Politicizing Experience: Redefining the Body”, “Death in Technological Time: Struggling to Locate Person and Body”, Washington, D.C. (November)

• 1995 - Invited panel participant at the American Gerontological Society Annual Meeting, “Anthropological Contributions to Menopause Research”, Los Angeles, California (November)

• 1995 - Paper presented at “Defining Death in a Technological Age: The Interface Between Medical Science and Society”, a Conference held at Case Western Reserve, “The 'Brain Death Problem': Japanese Disputes about Bodies and Modernity”, Cleveland, Ohio (November)

• 1995 - Paper presented at an invited session at the Society of Psychological Anthropology, “Positioning the Post Menopausal Woman: A Critical Deconstruction”, Puerto Rico (October)

• 1995 - Paper presented at an invited session at the Asian Studies Association Annual Meetings, “Medical Anthropology and the Anthropology of Japan”, Washington, D.C. (April)

• 1994 - Paper presented at an invited session on the Human Genome Diversity Project at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, “Anthropological Commentary on the Human Genome Diversity Project”, Atlanta, Georgia (December)

• 1994 - Panel discussant at the Center for Disease Control, adjunct to AAA meetings, “Epidemiology, Anthropology, and the Concept of Race”, Atlanta, Georgia (December)

• 1994 - Paper presented at the 4th International Congress of IACTAM (International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine), “Utopias of Health and Biomedical Technology”, Tokyo, Japan (August)

• 1994 - Co-organizer and paper presented at Conference on Social Suffering (SSRC sponsored), “Displacing Suffering: The Remaking of Death in North America and Japan”, Bellagio, Italy (July)

•  1993 - Panel discussant, “Migration and Foreign Labor in Japan”, East-West Center Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii (December)

• 1993 - Panel discussant, “Politics, Aesthetics and Medicine”, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington (November)

• 1993 - Panel discussant, “Feminist Theory and Psychological Anthropology”, Society for Psychological Anthropology Meetings, Montreal, Quebec (October)

• 1992 - Organizer, invited symposium, “Technologies of Embodied Knowledge”, American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, California (December)

• 1991 -Panel discussant, “Problematics of Personhood at the Margins of Life”, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois

• 1991 - Panel discussant, “Female and Male Role Sharing in Japan: Historical and Contemporary Constructions of Gender”, symposium, Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Michigan

• 1990 - Panel discussant, “Social Positions and Body Dispositions in China”, American Ethnological Society Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia

• 1990 - Panel discussant, “Bodies and Boundaries: East and West”, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

• 1989 - Participant, 14th Taniguchi Foundation Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine East and West, “The Return of the Patient as Person: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the Alleviation of Suffering in North America”, Hakone, Japan

• 1989 - Panel discussant, 3rd Annual Japan Social Sciences Association of Canada Conference

• 1989 - Concluding speaker, “Health Services and Cultures: A Challenge to the Canadian Society”, Bibliothèque Nationale du Quebec

• 1989 - Panel discussant, “Experience, Subjectivity, and the Self Reconsidered: An Exchange between Anthropology and Philosophy”, American Anthropological Meetings, Washington

• 1988 - Organizer of invited session, “Reproductive Technology, Medical Practice, Public Expectations, and New Representations of the Human Body”, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Phoenix, Arizona (November)

• 1988 - Co-organizer of “Analysis in Medical Anthropology, Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal (March)

• 1987 - Panel discussant, “Towards a Critical Clinical Anthropology”, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois (November)

• 1987 - “Selfishness and Sickness: Modernization and the Japanese Body”, Rethinking Japan, international symposium at the University of Venice, Venice, Italy

• 1987 - Panel discussant, 5th International Congress on Menopause, “Building Models of Menopause”

• 1986 - “Castigations of a Selfish Housewife: The Cultural Construction of Menopause in Japan”, Joint Meeting of American Ethnological Society and Society for Medical Anthropology on Women, Politics and Health, Brightsville Beach, North Carolina

• 1985 - “Care for the Selfish Housewife: Medicalization of Japanese Family Life”, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington

• 1985 - Panel discussant, “Asian Medical Systems: Permanence and Change”, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington

• 1985 - “Medicalization of Distress among Greek-Canadian Immigrants”, Canadian Ethnology Society Meetings, Toronto, Ontario

• 1985 - Symposium on Menopause, 9th International Conference on Social Science and Medicine, Korpilampi, Finland

• 1984 - “School Refusal Syndrome in Japan”, Association for Asian Studies Meetings, Chicago, Illinois

• 1984 - “The Commercialization of an Elite Tradition: Herbal Medication in Japan”, 2nd Congress of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM), Surabaya, Indonesia

• 1983 - Panel discussant, “Perspectives in Japanese Archaeology”, plenary session, 11th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Montreal, Quebec

• 1983 - “Traditional Medication and Biomedical Practice in Japan”, Association of Asian Studies Meetings, San Francisco, California

• 1983 - “Transformation of a Social Problem into Biology: The Case of the Japanese Elderly”, Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, San Diego, California

• 1982 - Panel discussant, “From Center to Periphery: Anthropology in Clinical Settings”, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington

• 1982 - “East Asian Medicine and the Japanese Elderly Symposium on Aging in Japan”, American Association of Public Health Meetings, Montreal, Quebec

• 1982 - “Walking the Tightrope: Anthropology in Medical Schools”, symposium on Applied Clinical Anthropology, Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Lexington

• 1981 - “Menopause: Syndrome or Life Cycle Transition? American Anthropological Association Meetings, Los Angeles, California

• 1981 - “Teaching Behavioral Sciences in Medicine at McGill University: From a Toehold to Integration”, Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Edinburgh

• 1980 - “Chinese Medical Policies and their Impact on Japan”, symposium on International Implications of the Chinese Medical System, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio

• 1980 - “Traditional and Popular Attitudes Towards Mental Illness in Japan”, conference on Cultural Conceptions of Mental Health and Therapy, Honolulu, Hawaii

• 1980 - Organizer of symposium on Medical Anthropology, Canadian Ethnology Society Meetings, Montreal, Quebec

• 1980 - “Small Group Teaching in Medical Schools”, Association for Behavioral Sciences in Medicine (ABSAME) Meetings, Montreal, Quebec

• 1979 - “Legitimation and the Popular Revival of East Asian Medicine: Problems and Policies”, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington

• 1978 - “The Organization and Practice of East Asian Medicine in Japan: Continuity and Change”, post-plenary session, 10th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Poona, India

• 1977 - “Man as Machine or Man as Microcosm: A Comparison of Western and Traditional Japanese Approaches to Patient Care”, Second International Symposium of the Comparative History of Medicine, East and West, Hakone, Japan

• 1977 - “When Yin and Yang Go Away: Health, Ill-Health and the Japanese Mother”, Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, San Diego, California

• 1977 - Organizer and teacher, weekend symposium on East Asian medicine, University of California, Berkeley, California

• 1976 - “Oriental Medicine in Urban Japan: Chronic Sickness as a Path of Harmony”, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington.

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Germany)

Institute of Social Medicine (Brazil)

State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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