
George M. Foster Bibliography
Articles and Book Reviews from the 1980s
1980
- The Role of Community Participation in Leprosy Control: a
Social Scientist's View. In Proceedings of the 2nd
International Workshop on Leprosy Control in Asia,
Kathmandu, Nepal, October ll-l4, l979 (Yo Yuasa, ed.), pp.
87-92. Tokyo: Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation.
- Relaciones entre la medicina popular espaÒola y
latinoamericano. In La antropologÌa mÈdica en EspaÒa (M.
Kenny and J. M. de Miguel, eds.), pp. l23-l47. Barcelona:
Editorial Anagrama. [Spanish translation of l953].
- Folklore y costumbres de embarazo , nacimiento e infancia.
In l980d, pp. 249-265. [Spanish translation of Chapter l0
of l960].
- (With Robert V. Kemper) Anthropological Fieldwork in
Cities. In Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology (G.
Gmelch and W. Z. Zimmer, eds.), pp. 3ll-327. New York: St.
Martin's Press. [Reprint of pp. l-l7 of l974].
1981
- Old Age in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico. In Aging: Biology and
Behavior (J. L. McGaugh and S. B. Kiesler, eds.), pp. ll5-
l37. New York: Academic Press.
- Research in Health Behavior, Health Education and Community
Participation: Report of an Inter-Country Meeting in New
Delhi, 3-8 November l980. New Delhi: WHO-SEA/HE/lll, 20
March l98l. [Formal authorship not acknowledged].
- Relations Between Spanish and Spanish-American Folk
Medicine. In Transcultural Health Care (George Henderson
and Martha Primeaux, eds.), pp. ll5-l35. Menlo Park, CA:
Addison-Wesley. [Reprint of l953].
1982
- Applied Anthropology and International Health: Retrospect
and Prospect. Human Organization 4l:l89-l97. [Society for
Applied Anthropology l982 Malinowski Lecture].
- Responsibility for Illness in Tzintzuntzan: a Cognitive-
Linguistic Anomaly. Medical Anthropology 6(2):8l-90.
- Relationships Between Anthropological Field Research and
Theory. In Crisis in Anthropology: View from Spring Hill
l980 (E. A. Hoebel, R. Currier and S. Kaiser, eds.), pp.
l4l-l53. New York: Garland Publishing Co.
- Community Development and Primary Health Care: Their
Conceptual Similarities. Medical Anthropology 6:l83-l95.
- Appropriate Technologies for Behavioural Science Research
on Health Problems: Report of an Inter-Country Consultation,
New Delhi, l-ll December l98l. New Delhi: World Health
Organization, Document SEA/HE/ll9 and SEA/RES/47, 30 March
l982. [Formal authorship not acknowledged].
1983
- An Introduction to Ethnomedicine. In Traditional Medicine
and Health Care Coverage: A Reader for Health Administrators
and Practitioners (R. H. Bannerman et al, eds.), pp. l7-24.
Geneva: World Health Organization.
- Socio-Cultural Practices Affecting the Safety of Food.
Food and Nutrition 9(2):48-5l. Rome: FAO.
- Food Safety Program at WHO. Medical Anthropology Quarterly
l4(2):22-24.
- Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting the Safety of Food: Report
on Informal Discussions Between Behavioural Scientists and
Food Scientists. School of Public Health, Mahidol
University, Bangkok, 7-9 June l982. Geneva: WHO, EFP/FOS/83.45.
- Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting the Safety of Food.
Geneva: World Health Organization EFP/FOS/EC/WP/83.9.
- Concepts of Health and Disease in Cultural Perspective.
Paper prepared for WHO-EURO Workshop on Scientific Analysis
of Health and Health Care: Paradigms, Methodologies and
Organization. Ulm, FRG, l-4 November l983. WHO Document
ICP/RDP 0l3(3)7, ll May l983.
- La salud y el equilibrio. In La medicine invisible:
introducciÛn al estudio de la medicina tradicional en MÈxico
(Xavier Lozoya & Carlos Zolla, eds.), pp. 62-72. MÈxico,
D.F.: Folios Ediciones. [Reprint of Chapter 9, l972].
1980
- Anthropological Research Perspectives on Health Problems in
Developing Countries. Social Science & Medicine l8:847-854.
- How to Stay Well in Tzintzuntzan. Social Science &
Medicine l9:523-533.
- The Concept of Neutral in Humoral Medical Systems. Medical
Anthropology 8:l80-l94.
- Western Pacific Advisory Committee on Medical Research,
Sub-Committee on Behavioural Science and Mental Health.
First Meeting, convened by the WHO Regional Office for the
Western Pacific. Manila, 28-30 March l983. Document No.
ICP/MNH/005 (WPACMR). l5 March l984. Offset 83 pp.
[Authored without acknowlegement by GMF].
- Research Methods and Approaches. In l984d, pp. 73-76.
Annex 5.2.
1985
- How to Get Well in Tzintzuntzan. Social Science & Medicine
2l:807-8l8.
- (With Fritz K. K”ferstein), Food Safety and the Behavioural
Sciences. Social Science & Medicine 2l:l273-l277.
- Review of Lisbeth Sachs, Evil Eye or Bacteria: Turkish
Migrant Women and Swedish Health Care. Medical Anthropology
Quarterly l6:ll0-lll.
- [A different] Review of Lisbeth Sachs, Evil Eye or
Bacteria: Turkish Migrant Women and Swedish Health Care.
Ethnos (Stockholm) 50:l55-l56.
- South Seas Cruise: a Case-Study of a Short-Lived Society.
Annals of Tourism Research l3:2l5-238.
- The Changing Culture of the Anthropological Profession in the United States. Southwestern Anthropological Association
Newsletter 26(l):5-ll [Unpaginated]. [Plenary Address at
March l986 Annual Meeting].
- The Role of Anthropology in the Enhancement of Peace and
International Understanding. The Eastern Anthropologist
39:l39-l45.
- Concepts of Health and Disease in Cultural Perspective. In Scientific Approaches to Health and Health Care, Proceedings
of a WHO Meeting in Ulm, West Germany l-4 November l983 (B.
Z. Nizetic, H. G. Pauli and P. O. Swensson, eds.), pp. 47-
55. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.
1987
- World Health Organization Behavioral Science Research:
Problems and Prospects. Social Science & Medicine 24:709-
7l7.
- Bureaucratic Aspects of International Health Agencies.
Social Science & Medicine 25:l039-l048.
- Colonial Administration in Northern Rhodesia in l962.
Human Organization 46:359-368.
- On the Origin of Humoral Medicine in Latin America.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly l:355-393.
- Review of John Maxtone-Graham, Liners to the Sun. Annals
of Tourism Research l4:438-44l.
1988
- The Validating Role of Humoral Theory in Traditional
Spanish-American Therapeutics. American Ethnologist l5:l20-
l35.
- (With Robert V. Kemper), Anthropological Fieldwork in
Cities. In Urban Life (2nd Edition) (George Gmelch and
Walter P Zenner, eds.), pp. 89-l0l. Prospect Heights, IL:
Waveland Press. (Reprint of l974).
1989
- Change and Continuity in World View in Tzintzuntzan, l945-
l985. In Homenaje a Isabel Kelly (YÛlotl Gonz·lez,
Coordinadora), pp. l87-l95. MÈxico, D.F.: Instituto
Nacional de AntropologÌa e Historia, Serie ArqueologÌa.
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