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52
Citations
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World Ranking
2364
National Ranking
1147

Research.com Recognitions

  • 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

Philippe Bourgois is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research focuses broadly within the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Toxicology, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work frequently addresses topics such as Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis, Homelessness and Social Issues, Sex Work and Related Issues, Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting, and Mental Health Treatment and Access.

Philippe Bourgois has published articles in several prominent academic journals, including multiple papers in Drug and Alcohol Dependence and the International Journal of Drug Policy. Other frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, and JAMA Psychiatry.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Bourgois include:

  • "Racial/Ethnic, Social, and Geographic Trends in Overdose-Associated Cardiac Arrests Observed by US Emergency Medical Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Intersectional structural vulnerability to abusive policing among people who inject drugs: A mixed methods assessment in California's central valley," 2020, International Journal of Drug Policy
  • "Potency-Enhancing Synthetics in the Drug Overdose Epidemic: Xylazine ("Tranq"), Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, and the Displacement of Heroin in Philadelphia and Tijuana," 2022, Journal of Illicit Economies and Development
  • "The emerging fentanyl-xylazine syndemic in the USA: challenges and future directions," 2023, The Lancet
  • "Deported, homeless, and into the canal: Environmental structural violence in the binational Tijuana River," 2022, Social Science & Medicine

The research collaborator network of Bourgois includes multiple frequent coauthors, among whom are:

  • Joseph Friedman (14 coauthored works)
  • Steffanie A. Strathdee (6 coauthored works)
  • Fernando Montero (5 coauthored works)
  • Helena Hansen (4 coauthored works)
  • Alicia Vera (4 coauthored works)

Throughout their career, Philippe Bourgois has been recognized with several awards:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2013
  • C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1995

Best Publications

  • In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio

    Philippe I. Bourgois

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

    Tim Rhodes;Merrill Singer;Philippe Bourgois;Samuel R. Friedman

  • Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Philippe Bourgois;Joseph Conrad;Michael Thomas Taussig

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

    James Quesada;Laurie Kain Hart;Philippe Bourgois

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

    Philippe Bourgois

  • Structural Vulnerability: Operationalizing the Concept to Address Health Disparities in Clinical Care

    Philippe Bourgois;Seth M. Holmes;Kim Sue;James Quesada

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

    Philippe Bourgois

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

    Sarah G. Mars;Philippe Bourgois;George Karandinos;Fernando Montero

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

    Philippe Bourgois

  • Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear

    Charles C. Branas;Eugenia South;Michelle C. Kondo;Bernadette C. Hohl

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

    Judith A. Hahn;Kimberly Page-Shafer;Paula J. Lum;Philippe Bourgois

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

    Philippe Bourgois;Bridget Prince;Andrew Moss

  • In search of masculinity: violence, respect and sexuality among Puerto Rican crack dealers in East Harlem

    Philippe I. Bourgois

  • Ethnicity at work

    Philippe Bourgois

  • Pathologizing poverty: New forms of diagnosis, disability, and structural stigma under welfare reform

    Helena Hansen;Helena Hansen;Philippe Bourgois;Ernest Drucker

  • Masculinity and undocumented labor migration: injured latino day laborers in San Francisco

    Nicholas Walter;Philippe Bourgois;H Margarita Loinaz

  • Social misery and the sanctions of substance abuse : Confronting HIV risk among homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco

    Philippe Bourgois;Mark Lettiere;James Quesada

  • Violence in war and peace

    Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Philippe I. Bourgois

  • Social Context of Work Injury Among Undocumented Day Laborers in San Francisco

    Nicholas Walter;Philippe Bourgois;H. Margarita Loinaz;Dean Schillinger

  • Structural violence and structural vulnerability within the risk environment: Theoretical and methodological perspectives for a social epidemiology of HIV risk among injection drug users and sex workers

    Tim Rhodes;Karla Wagner;Steffanie A. Strathdee;Kate Shannon

  • In Search of Respect: Contents

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Frequent Co-Authors

Alex H. Kral
Alex H. Kral RTI International
Tim Rhodes
Tim Rhodes London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego
Ricky N. Bluthenthal
Ricky N. Bluthenthal University of Southern California
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Nancy Scheper-Hughes University of California, Berkeley
Kate Shannon
Kate Shannon University of British Columbia
Brian R. Edlin
Brian R. Edlin National Development and Research Institutes
Martin Y. Iguchi
Martin Y. Iguchi Georgetown University
Jeffrey Draine
Jeffrey Draine Temple University
Kathleen McCartney
Kathleen McCartney Harvard University

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