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Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 43 Citations 17,380 139 World Ranking 2301 National Ranking 1166

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2013 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

1995 - C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Capitalism

His primary scientific interests are in Social psychology, Gender studies, Structural violence, Public health and Human sexuality. His studies deal with areas such as Multidisciplinary approach, Health care, Health policy, Operationalization and Public relations as well as Social psychology. His Gender studies research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Qualitative research, Politics and Peacetime.

The Qualitative research study combines topics in areas such as Resistance, Dignity, Juvenile delinquency, Public assistance and Social theory. As a member of one scientific family, Philippe Bourgois mostly works in the field of Structural violence, focusing on Immigration and, on occasion, Persecution, Medical anthropology, Critical medical anthropology and Ethnic group. The concepts of his Public health study are interwoven with issues in Psychological intervention and Moral economy.

His most cited work include:

  • In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (1632 citations)
  • The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users. (761 citations)
  • Structural Vulnerability and Health: Latino Migrant Laborers in the United States (366 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Philippe Bourgois focuses on Politics, Criminology, Gender studies, Ethnic group and Ethnography. His research in Politics intersects with topics in Colonialism, Scholarship, Political economy and Human rights. His Criminology research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Social psychology, Harassment, Structural violence and Patriarchy.

The various areas that he examines in his Social psychology study include Human sexuality, Participant observation, Social environment, Health equity and Addiction. His work carried out in the field of Gender studies brings together such families of science as Shame and Moral economy. Philippe Bourgois interconnects Poverty and Social network in the investigation of issues within Ethnic group.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Politics (19.17%)
  • Criminology (18.33%)
  • Gender studies (14.17%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Criminology (18.33%)
  • Demography (3.33%)
  • Politics (19.17%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Criminology, Demography, Politics, Inner city and Spanish Civil War. His Criminology research integrates issues from Gun control, Harassment and Social mobility. His Demography study incorporates themes from Psychological intervention, Cluster randomised controlled trial, Randomized controlled trial and Medical prescription.

His Medical prescription research focuses on subjects like Multivariate analysis, which are linked to Heroin, Drug and Drug injection. He performs multidisciplinary study in the fields of Politics and Separation via his papers. His Health care research includes elements of Multidisciplinary approach, Social psychology, Operationalization and Public relations.

Between 2016 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Structural Vulnerability: Operationalizing the Concept to Address Health Disparities in Clinical Care (157 citations)
  • Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear (83 citations)
  • Assessment of Racial/Ethnic and Income Disparities in the Prescription of Opioids and Other Controlled Medications in California. (58 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Capitalism

His primary areas of study are Demography, Medical prescription, Health care, Controlled substance and Per capita income. His Demography study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Psychological intervention, Randomized controlled trial, Cohort study and Heroin. His Medical prescription research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Young adult, Multivariate analysis, Confidence interval and Drug, Drug injection.

His Health care research incorporates elements of Social psychology, Operationalization and Public relations. Philippe Bourgois has researched Controlled substance in several fields, including Ethnic group and Stimulant.

This overview was generated by a machine learning system which analysed the scientist’s body of work. If you have any feedback, you can contact us here.

Best Publications

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio

Philippe I. Bourgois.
(1995)

5683 Citations

The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users.

Tim Rhodes;Merrill Singer;Philippe Bourgois;Samuel R. Friedman.
Social Science & Medicine (2005)

1074 Citations

Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Philippe Bourgois;Joseph Conrad;Michael Thomas Taussig.
(2003)

916 Citations

The Power of Violence in War and Peace Post-Cold War Lessons from El Salvador

Philippe Bourgois.
Ethnography (2001)

694 Citations

Structural Vulnerability and Health: Latino Migrant Laborers in the United States

James Quesada;Laurie Kain Hart;Philippe Bourgois.
Medical Anthropology (2011)

613 Citations

Disciplining addictions: the bio-politics of methadone and heroin in the United States.

Philippe Bourgois.
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (2000)

480 Citations

The Moral Economies of Homeless Heroin Addicts: Confronting Ethnography, HIV Risk, and Everyday Violence in San Francisco Shooting Encampments

Philippe Bourgois.
Substance Use & Misuse (1998)

396 Citations

Hepatitis C Virus Seroconversion among Young Injection Drug Users: Relationships and Risks

Judith A. Hahn;Kimberly Page-Shafer;Paula J. Lum;Philippe Bourgois.
The Journal of Infectious Diseases (2002)

391 Citations

“Every ‘Never’ I Ever Said Came True”: Transitions from opioid pills to heroin injecting

Sarah G. Mars;Philippe Bourgois;George Karandinos;Fernando Montero.
International Journal of Drug Policy (2014)

388 Citations

The Everyday Violence of Hepatitis C Among Young Women Who Inject Drugs in San Francisco.

Philippe Bourgois;Bridget Prince;Andrew Moss.
Human Organization (2004)

352 Citations

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