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Mark Nichter is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and has contributed extensively to research within the field of Medicine. Their work covers multiple subfields including General Health Professions, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, and Pollution.

Among the main topics of their investigation are:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance

Nichter has authored and contributed to several research articles, including:

  • "The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes" (2023), published in Global Environmental Change
  • "Accounting for variation in and overuse of antibiotics among humans" (2021), published in BioEssays
  • "Ecocommunicability, citizenship, and discourses on plastic control in India" (2021), published in Geoforum
  • "The Open Burning of Plastic Wastes is an Urgent Global Health Issue" (2024), published in Annals of Global Health

Frequent academic collaborators of Nichter include Melissa K. Melby, Roch Christian Johnson, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, Martin J. Blaser, and Naama Geva-Zatorsky.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, notably:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PLOS Global Public Health
  • Global Environmental Change
  • BioEssays
  • Geoforum

In addition to journal articles, Nichter has published books with University of Arizona Press and Rutgers University Press. Notable titles include Global Health (2020) and The Work of Hospitals (2022).

Best Publications

  • Idioms of distress: alternatives in the expression of psychosocial distress: a case study from South India.

    Mark Nichter

  • Body image and weight concerns among African American and White adolescent females: Differences that make a difference.

    Sheila Parker;Mimi Nichter;Mark Nichter;Nancy Vuckovic

  • Pharmacies, self-medication and pharmaceutical marketing in Bombay, India.

    Vinay R. Kamat;Mark Nichter

  • Idioms of distress revisited.

    Mark Nichter

  • Role of the media in influencing trajectories of youth smoking

    Melanie Wakefield;Brian Flay;Mark Nichter;Gary Giovino

  • Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter

    Mark Nichter

  • Anthropology and International Health: South Asian Case Studies

    Mark Nichter

  • Modern Methods of Fertility Regulation: When and for Whom Are They Appropriate?

    Mark Nichter

  • Effects of anti-smoking advertising on youth smoking: a review.

    Melanie Wakefield;Brian Flay;Mark Nichter;Gary Giovino

  • Vaccinations in the Third World: a consideration of community demand.

    Mark Nichter

  • Current models of nicotine dependence: what is known and what is needed to advance understanding of tobacco etiology among youth.

    William G. Shadel;Saul Shiffman;Raymond Niaura;Mark Nichter

  • Agenda for an anthropology of pharmaceutical practice

    Mark Nichter;Nancy Vuckovic

  • Hype and weight.

    Mark Nichter;Mimi Nichter

  • Social factors influencing the acquisition of antibiotics without prescription in Kerala State, south India

    Rema Devi Saradamma;Nick Higginbotham;Mark Nichter

  • Smoking experimentation and initiation among adolescent girls: qualitative and quantitative findings.

    M Nichter;N Vuckovic;G Quintero;C Ritenbaugh

  • Reconsidering the placebo response from a broad anthropological perspective.

    Jennifer Jo Thompson;Cheryl Ritenbaugh;Mark Nichter

  • The layperson's perception of medicine as perspective into the utilization of multiple therapy systems in the Indian context.

    Mark Nichter

  • Smoking: what does culture have to do with it?

    Mark Nichter

  • For my wellness, not just my illness: North Americans' use of dietary supplements.

    Mark Nichter;Jennifer Jo Thompson

  • What Can Critical Medical Anthropology Contribute to Global Health

    James Pfeiffer;Mark Nichter

  • Anthropology and international health

    Mark and Mimi Nichter

Frequent Co-Authors

Nawi Ng
Nawi Ng University of Gothenburg
Brian R. Flay
Brian R. Flay Boise State University
Richard R. Clayton
Richard R. Clayton University of Kentucky
Linda M. Collins
Linda M. Collins New York University
Martin J. Blaser
Martin J. Blaser Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson
Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Saul Shiffman
Saul Shiffman University of Pittsburgh
Stephen T. Tiffany
Stephen T. Tiffany University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Robert J. McMahon
Robert J. McMahon Simon Fraser University
Philippe Gros
Philippe Gros McGill University

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