Carole Browner, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Carole H. Browner is a Professor in the UCLA Center for Social Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, NPI-Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is also Professor in the Department of Gender Studies and Department of Anthropology, where she served as Chair from 2010-2013. Her training as a medical anthropologist combines a doctorate in socio-cultural anthropology with a master’s degree in public health. Her research interests have lay principally at the intersection of gender, reproduction, and health; she has conducted field research in urban Colombia, rural Mexico, and with diverse ethnic groups in the U. S. She is presently engaged in fieldwork with indigenous and nonindigenous Mexican rural women on identity and social transformation and in a collaboration with an economist and an epidemiologist on Mexican health and pension policy reform. Carole Browner’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Health Care Policy Research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, private donors, and private foundations. Professional service included membership on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the State of California’s Birth Defects Monitoring Program and on the Executive and Advisory Boards of several University of California institutes including UC-MEXUS, the Institute for American Cultures, the Institute for Development Studies, the International Institute, the Latin American Center, and the Center for the Study of Women and a review panel Behavioral and Neural Sciences for National Science Foundation. She was elected to the Executive Boards of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Society for Latin American Anthropology, and the Society for Medical Anthropology andPresident of the latter from 1995-97. She serves several journal editorial boards and consults on projects on women’s and Latino health in southern California, on the U.S.-Mexican border and in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America.

Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences School Medicine

browner@ucla.edu

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND MAJOR FUNDING

1980-83	Sociocultural and Pharmacological Dimensions of Women's Reproductive Medicine (NSF BNS80-16431), Carole H. Browner, Principal Investigator, $51,520 direct costs.
1988-94	Decisions about the Use of Prenatal Diagnostic Testing by Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White Women (NICHD ND11944), Carole H. Browner, Key Investigator, $432,534 direct costs.
1994-96	The Context and Meaning of Reproductive Decision Making among Inner City Hispanic/Latino Couples (Contraceptive Research and Development Program, CONRAD/CDC), Carole H. Browner, Co-Principal Investigator, $200,386 direct costs.
1995-96	Building Across Borders: A Proposal to Establish a Transborder Consortium for Research and Action on the Mexican-United States Border. (MacArthur and Ford Foundations), Carole H. Browner, Co-Investigator. $125,226 direct costs.
1995-98	Use of Amniocentesis by Mexicans and Mexican Americans, (NIH 1 RO1 HD31618-01), Carole H. Browner, Principal Investigator, $431,790 direct costs.
1995-98	Access to Care for Homeless Women of Reproductive Age, Carole H. Browner, Co-Principal Investigator (AHPR H508323-01), $1,761,831 direct costs.
1999-2001	Partnering for Tobacco Control Research Among Deaf Youth (Tobacco-Related Diseases Research Program 8BT-1701), Carole H. Browner, Co-Principal Investigator, $75,000 direct costs.
1999-2003	Genetic Counseling Strategies with Mexican-origin Women, (NIH 1 RO1 HG01384-04), Carole H. Browner, Principal Investigator, $911,584 direct costs.
2001-2004	Community Consultation and Haplotype Mapping in Mexican Americans (NIH R03 HG02500-01-S01), Carole H. Browner, Co-Investigator, $112,260 direct costs.
2003-2007	Use of Genetics in Neurologists’ Clinical Practices (NIH 1 RO1 HG003228-01), Carole H. Browner, Principal Investigator, $915,923 direct costs.
2013-2015	Establishing Infrastructure for Prevention of Familial Alzheimer Disease in Mexico (NIH Fogarty International Center R21 TW009787-01), Carole H. Browner, Co-Investigator, $113,000 direct costs.

PUBLICATIONS

Browner, C. H. 1975. Abortion as a Life Crisis. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 47: 86-115.

Browner, C. H. and Chibnik, M. 1979. Anthropological Research for a Computer Manufacturing Company. Central Issues in Anthropology 1(2): 63-76.

Browner, C. H. 1979. Abortion Decision Making: Some Findings from Colombia. Studies in Family Planning 10(3): 96-106.

Translated and reprinted in Estudios de Población IV (1-6): 16-29, 1980.

Browner, C. H. 1980. The Management of Early Pregnancy: Colombian Folk Concepts of Fertility Control. Social Science and Medicine 14B: 25-32.

Browner, C. H. and Lewin E. 1982. Female Altruism Reconsidered: The Virgin Mary as Economic Woman. American Ethnologist 9(1): 61-75.

Hill, J. and Browner, C. H. 1982. Gender Ambiguity and Class Stereotyping in the Mexican Fotonovela. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 1(1): 43-64.

Browner, C. H. 1982. "Induced Abortion: The Risks and The Myths." In, G. C. Hongladarom, R. McCorkle, and N. F. Woods, eds. The Complete Book of Women's Health, pp. 208-20. Englewood

Browner, C. H. 1983. Male Pregnancy Symptoms in Urban Colombia. American Ethnologist 10(3): 494-510.

Browner, C. H. 1983. The Outpatient Department as Social System: Structure, Ideology & Behavior. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 61 & 62: 52-68.

Browner, C. H. 1983. "Women's Understandings about Reproductive Physiology and Their Choice of Herbal Medicines in Cali, Colombia." In, M. Aguwa, ed. Women, Health and International Development, pp. 91-103. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

Browner, C. H. and Rubel, A. J. 1984. "Pressure and Counter-Pressure: Interaction Between Local and State Levels in Highland Mexico." In, J. Lynch, ed. Past and Present in the Americas. A Compendium of Recent Studies, pp. 222-25. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Browner, C. H. 1985. "Traditional Techniques for Diagnosis, Treatment and Control of Pregnancy in Cali, Colombia." In, L. Newman, ed. Women's Medicine: Cross-Cultural Studies of Indigenous Fertility Regulation, pp. 100-23. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Browner, C. H. 1985. Criteria for Selecting Herbal Remedies. Ethnology 24(1): 13-32. Ortiz de Montellano, B. R. and C. H. Browner 1985. Chemical Bases for Medicinal Plant Use in Oaxaca, Mexico. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 13: 57-88.

Browner, C. H. 1985. Plants Used for Reproductive Health in Oaxaca, Mexico. Economic Botany 39(4): 482-504.

Browner, C. H. 1986. Gender Roles and Social Change: A Mexican Case Study. Ethnology 25(2): 89-106.

Browner, C. H. and Ortiz de Montellano, B. R. 1986. "Herbal Emmenagogues Used by Women in Colombia and Mexico." In, N. Etkin, ed. Plants in Indigenous Medicine & Diet: Biobehavioral Approaches, pp. 32-47. Bedford Hills, NY: Redgrave.

Browner, C. H. 1986. The Politics of Reproduction in a Mexican Village. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 11(4): 710-24.

Browner, C. H., Ellis, K. A., Ford, T., Silsby, J., Tampoya, J., Yee, C. 1987. Stress, Social Support, and Health of Psychiatric Technicians in a State Facility. Mental Retardation 25(1): 31-38.

Browner, C. H. 1987. Job Stress and Health: The Role of Social Support at Work. Research in Nursing and Health 10(2): 93-100.

Browner, C. H. and Perdue, S. T. 1988. Women’s Secrets: Bases for Reproductive and Social Autonomy in a Mexican Community. American Ethnologist 15(1): 84-97.

Browner, C. H. and Ortiz de Montellano, B. R. 1988. "Enseñanzas que derivan del uso de yerbas medicinales en Oaxaca, México." In, E. Reichel Dolmatoff, ed. Patrones Cognitivos: Rituales y Fiestas de las Americas. pp. 358-67. Bogota: Editorial Presencia, Ltda.

Browner, C. H., Ortiz de Montellano, B. R., Rubel, A. J. 1988. A Methodology for Cross-Cultural Ethnomedical Research. Current Anthropology 29(5): 681-701.

Browner, C. H. 1989. Women, Household and Health in Latin America. Social Science and Medicine 28(5): 461-473.

Browner, C. H. 1989. "The Management of Reproduction in an Egalitarian Society." In, C. McClain, ed. Women as Healers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, pp. 58-71. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Hunt, L. M., Jordan, B., Irwin, S., Browner, C. H. 1989. Compliance and the Patient's Perspective: Controlling Symptoms in Everyday Life. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 13(3): 315-334.

Browner, C. H. 1989. La producción, la reproducción, y la salud de la mujer: Un estudio de un caso de Oaxaca, Mexico. Anales de Antropologia 26: 319-329.

Hunt, L. M., Browner, C. H., Jordan, B. 1990. Hypoglycemia: Portrait of an Illness Construct in Everyday Use. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, new series 4(2): 191-210.

Lundgren, R. and Browner, C. H. 1990. "Caring for the Institutionalized Mentally Retarded: Work Culture and Work-Based Social Support." In, E. K. Abel and M. K. Nelson, eds. Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives, pp. 150-72. Albany: SUNY Press.

Browner, C. H. and Sargent, C. F. 1990. "Anthropology and Human Reproduction." In, T. Johnson and C.F. Sargent, eds. Medical Anthropology:A Handbook of Theory & Research, pp. 215-29. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Browner, C. H. and Kubarski, K. 1991. The Paradoxical Control of American Clerks. Organization Studies 12(2): 233-250.

Browner, C. H. 1991. Gender Politics in the Distribution of Therapeutic Herbal Knowledge. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, new series, 5(2): 99-132.

Browner, C. H. 1991. Women and Economic Change in Rural Mexico. Peasant Studies 19(1): 5-20.

Browner, C. H., Ortiz de Montellano, B. R., Rubel, A. J. 1992. "El analisis comparativo de los sistemas médicos." In, P. Sesia, ed. Medicina tradicional, herbolaria y salud comunitaria en Oaxaca, México, pp. 223-263. Oaxaca, Mexico: CIESAS y Gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca

Press, N. and Browner, C. H. 1992. Policy Issues in Maternal Serum Alpha Feto- Protein Screening: The View from California. In Proceedings of the Committee on Assessing Genetic Risks: Issues and Implications for Health. Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press.

Browner, C. H. 1993. New Feminist Scholarship on Reproduction and Women's Health. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 18(3): 698-703.

Press, N. and Browner, C. H. 1993. "Collective Fictions": Similarities in Reasons for Accepting MSAFP Screening Among Women of Diverse Ethnic and Social Class Backgrounds. Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy 8 (suppl 1): 97-106.

Browner, C. H. 1994. Margaret Clark's Enduring Contribution to Latino Studies in Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 8(4): 468-475.

Press, N. and Browner, C. H. 1994. "Collective Silences and Collective Fictions: How Prenatal Diagnostic Testing Became Part of Routine Prenatal Care." In, K. H. Rothenberg and E. J. Thomson, eds. Women & Prenatal Testing: Facing The Challenges of Genetic Technology, pp. 201-218. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Browner, C. H. and Press, N. 1995. "The Normalization of Prenatal Diagnostic Screening." In, F. Ginsburg and R. Rapp, eds. Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction, pp. 307-322. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Browner, C. H. and Rubel, A. J. 1995. "The Chinantec." In, D. Levinson, ed. Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 8, pp. 52-55. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co.

Browner, C. H. and Leslie, J. 1995. "Women, Work, and Household Health in the Context of Development." In, C. Sargent and C. Brettell, eds. Gender and Health, pp. 260-277. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Press, N. and Browner, C. H. 1995. Risk, Autonomy, and Responsibility: Informed Consent for Prenatal Testing. Special Supplement. Hastings Center Report 25(3): S9-12.

Browner, C. H. and Press, N. 1996. The Production of Authoritative Knowledge in American Prenatal Care. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 10(2): 141-156.

Browner, C. H. and Sargent, C. F. 1996. "Anthropology and Studies of Human Reproduction." In, C. F. Sargent and T. Johnson, eds. Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory & Method, revised edition, pp.219-234. Westport, CT: Greenwood

Browner, C. H., Preloran, H. M., and Press, N. 1996. The Effects of Ethnicity, Education, and an Informational Video on Pregnant Women's Knowledge and Decisions about a Prenatal Diagnostic Screening Test. Patient Education and Counseling 27(2): 135-142.

Markens, S., Browner, C. H., and Press, N. 1997. Feeding the Fetus: On Interrogating the Notion of Maternal-Fetal Conflict. Feminist Studies 23(2): 351-72.

Press, N. and Browner, C. H. 1997. Why Women Say Yes to Prenatal Testing. Social Science and Medicine 45(7): 979-989.

Preloran, H. M. and Browner, C. H. 1997. Rol de la tradición en las prácticas del embarazo: efectos de la información genética entre mexicanas residentes en los Estados Unidos. Revista de Investigaciones Folklóricas 12: 67-75.

Press, N.A. and Browner, C. H. 1998. Characteristics of Women Who Refuse an Offer of Prenatal Diagnosis: Data from the California MSAFP Experience. American Journal of Medical Genetics 78: 433-445.

Hunt, L.M., de Voogd, K.B., Akana, L.L., and Browner, C. H. 1998. Abnormal Pap Screening among Mexican American Women: Impediments to Receiving and Reporting Follow-up Care. Nursing Oncology Forum 25(10): 1743-1749.

Press, N., Browner, C. H., Tran, D., Morton, C., and LeMaster, B. 1998. "Provisional Normalcy and 'Perfect Babies': Pregnant Women's Attitudes Toward Disability in the Context of Prenatal Testing." In, S. Franklin and H. Ragoné, eds. Reproducing Reproduction, pp. 46-65. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Abel, E. K. and Browner, C. H. 1998. "Selective Compliance with Biomedical Authority and the Uses of Experiential Knowledge." In, M. Lock and P. Kaufert, eds. Pragmatic Women and Body Politics. pp. 310-326. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Browner, C. H. 1999. On the Medicalization of Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13(2): 135-40.

Browner, C. H. and Preloran, H.M. 1999. Male Partners’ Role in Latinas’ Amniocentesis Decisions. Journal of Genetic Counseling 8(2): 85-108.

Markens, S., Browner, C. H., and Press, N. 1999. “Because of the Risks”: How U. S. Pregnant Women Account for Refusing Prenatal Screening. Social Science and Medicine 49(3): 359-369.

Rubel, A. J. and Browner, C. H. 1999. La antropología de salud en Oaxaca. Alternidades, año 9, núm. 17: 85-94.

Preloran, H. M., Browner, C. H., and Balzano, S. 1998/99. Texto y contexto en el analisis de la narrativa: Renegociación de roles en situaciones médicas con peligro de vida. Scripta Ethnológica, 20: 23-36. Buenos Aires: Centro Argentino de Ethnologia Americana).

Browner, C. H., Preloran, H. M., and Cox, S. J. 1999. Ethnicity, Bioethics, and Prenatal Diagnosis: the Amniocentesis Decisions of Mexican-origin Women and their Partners. American Journal of Public Health 89(11): 1658-1666.

Browner, C. H. and Preloran, H. M. 2000. Latinas, Amniocentesis and the Discourse of Choice. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 24(3): 353-75.

Browner, C. H. and Preloran, H. M. 2000. Interpreting Low-Income Latinas’ Amniocentesis Refusals. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 22(3): 346-68.

Browner, C. H. 2000. Situating Women’s Reproductive Activities. American Anthropologist 102(4): 773-88.

Browner, C. H. and Preloran, H. M. 2000. Para sacarse la espina (To Get Rid of the Doubt): Mexican Immigrant Women’s Amniocentesis Decisions. In, Ann R. Sætnan, Nelly Oudshoorn, and Marta Kirejczyk, eds. Bodies of Technology: Women’s Involvement with Reproductive Medicine, pp. 368-383. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Rubel, A. J. and Browner, C. H. 2001. Chinantec. In, Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America, Vol. 1, pp 201-02. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rubel, A. J. and Browner, C. H. 2001. Curing and Healing. In, Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America, Vol. 1, pp 300-04. New York: Oxford University Press.

Root, R. and Browner, C. H. 2001. Practices of the Pregnant Self: Compliance with and Resistance to Biomedical Prenatal Norms. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 25 (2): 195-223.

Preloran, H. M, Browner, C. H. and Lieber, E. 2001. Strategies for Motivating Latino Couples’ Participation in Qualitative Health Research. American Journal of Public Health 91(11): 18321841.

Gelberg, L., Leake, B.D., Lu, M. C., Andersen, R.M., Wenzel, S. L., Morgenstern, H., Koegel, P. Browner, C. H. 2001. Use of Contraceptive Methods among Homeless Women for Protection against Unwanted Pregnancies and STDs: Prior Use and Willingness to Use in the Future. Contraception 63: 277-81.

Frank, G., Blackhall, L.J., Murphy, S. T., Michel, V., Azen, S. P., Preloran, H.P. and Browner, C. H. 2002. Ambiguity and Hope: Disclosure Preferences of Less Acculturated Elderly Mexican Americans Concerning Terminal Cancer: A Case Story. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 11: 117-126.

Gelberg, L., Leake, B., Lu, M.C., Andersen, R., Nyamathi, A. M., Morgenstern, H. and Browner, C. H. 2002. Chronically Homeless Women’s Perceived Deterrents to Contraception. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 34: 278-285.

Harvey, S. M., Beckman, L. J., Browner, C. H. and Sherman, C. A. 2002. Relationship Power, Decision-Making and Sexual Relations: An Exploratory Study with Couples of Mexican Origin. The Journal of Sex Research 39(4): 284-291.

Balzano, S., Preloran, M. and Browner, C. H. 2002. El protocolo medico como una forma de performance cultural: La neutralidad profesional y su efecto en la vida de los Pacientes y sus Familias (The consequences of competing client and clinician agendas in prenatal care) Revista de Investigaciones Folclóricas 17:145-155.

Browner, C. H., Preloran, H. M., Casado, M. C., Bass, H., and Walker, A. 2003. Genetic Counseling Gone Awry: Some Consequences of Miscommunication between Prenatal Genetic Service Providers and Latina Clients. Social Science and Medicine 56(9): 1933-1946.

Markens, S., Browner, C. H. and Preloran, H. M. 2003. “I’m Not the One They’re Sticking the Needle Into”: Latino Couples, Fetal Diagnosis, and the Discourse of Reproductive Rights. Gender & Society 17(3): 462-481.

Preloran, H. M. Balzano, S. and Browner, C. H. 2003. The Roles of Trust and Cross-Cultural Miscommunication in Clinical Decision-Making. 2003. Californian Journal of Health Promotion 1(2): 198-207.

Browner, C. H. and Preloran, H.M. 2004. Expectations, Emotions, and Medical Decision Making: A Case Study on the Use of Amniocentesis. Transcultural Psychiatry 41(4): 427-444.

Preloran, H. M, Balzano, S. and Browner, C. H., 2004. Globalizacion y salud: El impacto de un protocolo medico sin fronteras (Globalization and health: the impact of a medical protocol without borders). Realidad Revista del Cono Sur de Psicología Social y Política (Buenos Aires: Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy). 2/3: 287-304.

Gelberg, L., Browner, C. H., Lejano, E. and Arangua, L. 2004. Access to Women’s Health Care: A Qualitative Study of Barriers Perceived by Homeless Women. Women and Health 40(2): 87-100.

Browner, C. H. and Sargent, C. F. 2005. “Donner un genre à l’anthropologie médicale (Engendering Medical Anthropology)”. In, Francine Saillant and Serge Genest, eds. Anthropologie médicale: Ancrages locaux, défis globaux, pp 358-81. Quebec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval.

Preloran, H. M., Browner, C. H., and Acebo Ibañes, E. 2004/05 Una mirada anthropologica a la relacion entre concientizacion, percepcion del ambiente y el uso de tecnologia genetica. Realidad Revista del Cono Sur de Psicología Social y Política (Buenos Aires: Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy) 4/5: 485-498.

Levin, B. W., Browner, C. H. 2005. The Social Production of Health: Critical Contributions from Evolutionary, Biological, and Cultural Anthropology. Social Science and Medicine 61(4):745-750.

Browner, C. H. Some Unexpected Consequences of Implementing Gender “Neutral” Reproductive Programs and Policies. 2005. Women in International Development Publication Series, #284.

Preloran, H. M., Browner, C. H., and Lieber, E. 2005. Impact of Interpreters’ Approach on Latinas’ Use of Amniocentesis. Health Education & Behavior 32(5): 599-612.

Preloran, H. M., Browner, C. H., and Lieber, E. 2005. Filtro: El efecto de la comunicación mediada a través de traductores en el uso de las pruebas genéticas. Revista de Investigaciones Folclóricas, 20: 46-75.

Browner, C. H. and Preloran, H. M. 2006. “Culture and Communication in the Realm of Fetal Diagnosis. Unique Considerations for Latino Patients.” In, Neil F. Sharpe and Ronald F. Carter, eds. Genetic Testing: Current Practices, Ethical Concerns, Legal Considerations, pp. 31-44. NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Browner, C. H. and Preloran, H. M. 2006. “Entering the Field: Recruiting Latinos for Ethnographic Work.” In, Dick Hobbs and Richard Wright, ed. Handbook of Fieldwork, pp. 93 106.London: Sage.

Browner, C. H., Preloran, H. M., Balzano, S. 2006. Anomie and Identity Management in an AtRisk Medical Situation. Realidad Revista del Cono Sur de Psicología Social y Política (Buenos Aires: Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy) 6(1): 7-22.

Browner, C. H. and Sargent, C. F. 2007. “Engendering Medical Anthropology.” In, Serge Genest and Francine Saillant, eds. Medical Anthropology: Regional Perspectives and Shared Concerns, pp. 233-51. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Ltd. (English translation of #23 above).

Browner, C. H. 2007. Does ‘Gender Equity’ in Reproductive Programs and Policies Unintentionally Reinforce Male Authority?” In, Marcia Inhorn, ed. Reproductive Disruption: Technology and Biopolitics in the New Millenium, pp. 147-64. Oxford: Berghahn. (Gender revised and expanded).

Root, R. and Browner, C. H. 2008. Cultural Contexts of Reproductive Health, In, H. Kris Heggenhougen and Stella Quah, eds. International Encyclopedia of Public Health Vol. 2, pp. 4448, San Diego: Academic Press.

Hess, P., Preloran, H. M., and Browner, C. H. 2009 Diagnostic Genetic Testing for a Fatal Illness: The Experience of Patients with Movement Disorders. New Genetics and Society 28(1): 3-18.

Browner, C. H. and H. M. Preloran Neurogenetic Diagnoses: The Power of Hope and the Limits of Today’s Medicine, Oxon: Routledge, 2010.

Markens, S., Browner, C. H. and Preloran, H. M. 2010 Interrogating the Dynamics between Power, Knowledge and Pregnant Bodies in Amniocentesis Decision-Making. Sociology of Health and Illness 32(1): 37-56.

Root, R. and Browner, C. H. 2011. Cultural Contexts of Reproductive Health, In, Paul F.A. Van Look, H. Kristian Heggenhougen and Stella R. Quah, eds. Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Public Health Perspective Vol. 4, pp. 314-318. Reprint of #28 above. (revised and updated 12/14)

Browner, C. H. and Sargent, C. F. eds. 2011 Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Browner, C. H. and Sargent, C. F. 2011. Introduction. In, C. H. Browner and C. F. Sargent, eds. Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives, pp. 1-17. Durham: Duke University Press.

Browner, C. H. 2011. Lost In Translation: Lessons from California on the Implementation of State-Mandated Fetal Diagnosis in the Context of Globalization. In, C. H. Browner and C. F. Sargent, eds. Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives, pp. 204-23. Durham: Duke University Press.

Withers, M. and Browner, C. H. 2011. The changing contexts of fertility outcomes: Case studies from a remote village in Bali, Indonesia. Culture, Health and Sexuality 13(10): 1-14.

David, S., Browner, C. H., and Singh, R.R. 2011. Is Autoimmunity a Sign of Our Times: Stress. Lupus, and Late Capitalism. [abstract] Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology 29(1): 210.

Browner, C. H. and Sargent, C. F. 2012. Dando um Genero a Antropologia Médica. In, Francine Saillant e Serge Genest, Antropologia Médica: Ancoagens Locais, Desafios Globais, pp. 351-74. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz.

Withers, M., Browner, C. H. and Aghaloo, T. 2013. Promoting Volunteerism in Global Health: Lessons from a Medical Mission in Northern Mexico, Journal of Community Health 38 (2): 374-384.

Fogel, B., Vickrey, B., Walton-Wetzel, J., Lieber, E. and Browner, C. H. 2013. Utilization of Genetic Testing Prior to Subspecialist Referral for Cerebellar Ataxia, Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers. 17 (8): 588-594.

Flaherty, D., Preloran, H. M. and Browner, C. H. 2014. Is It “Disclosure?” Rethinking Tellings of Genetic Diagnoses. In, M. Davis and L. Manderson, eds. Disclosure in Health and Illness, pp. 89103. London: Routledge.

Browner, C. H. and Withers, M. 2015. Reproduction. In, P. Whelehan and A. Bolin, eds. International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, First Edition. Boston: Wiley and Company.

Browner, C. H. and Root, R. 2015. Cultural Context of Reproductive Health. In, Elsevier Reference in Biomedical Sciences. (Revised and updated)

Browner, C. H. 2016. Reproduction: From Rights to Justice. In, L.J. Disch and M. Hawkesworth, eds. Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory, pp. 803- 831. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Browner, C. H. and Root, R. 2017. Cultural Context of Reproductive Health. International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Second Edition, 2: 87–190. Oxford: Academic Press. (Revised and updated.)

Withers, M., Browner, C. H. and Adinata, I.N.A. 2018. The Role of Balinese Culture in Explaining Inconsistencies Between Fertility Intentions and Reproductive Outcomes. In, S. Choudhury, J. T. Erausquin, and M. Withers, eds. Global Perspectives on Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Across the Lifecourse, pp. 127-140. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International.

Browner, C. H. and Sargent, C. F. 2022. Reproduction and the State. In, S. Han and C. Tomori, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction, pp; 87-105. New York: Routledge.

Browner, C. H. and Leal Fernández. G. 2022. The Mexican Health Care System Under the Administration of AMLO. NACLA Report (The North American Congress on Latin America) June 8, 2022.

Browner, C. H., Leal Fernández, G, and Sánchez Pérez, H.J. 2024. The Legacy of President Lázaro Cárdenas for Health Care Reform in Today´s Mexico. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, https://doi.org/10.1177/27551938241245675, April 22, 2024.

Browner, C. H. and Root, R. 2024. Cultural Context of Reproductive Health. International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Third Edition, William C. Cockerham, ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier (revised and updated in Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences).

Browner, C. H. and Leal Fernández. G. 2025. Will President Claudia Scheinbaum’s Health Policies and Programs Produce Better Health for Mexico’s People? Digital Journal of Science (DJS) https://westlandpublishers.com/uploads/file_67b8e3b671a6e1.95591804.pdf, 14 February 2025.

Brianna Gentile, B., LeShay Araujo, R, Kianmahd Shamshoni, J., Browner, C. H., Palmer, C.G.S. 2025. Evaluation of Prenatal Genetic Counselors' Abortion Education and Training as Variables Associated with Self-efficacy, Journal of Genetic Counseling, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgc4.2019, 04 April 2025.

Browner, C. H. and Leal, G. in press. ¿Las políticas de salud de la presidenta Sheinbaum mejorarán la salud en México? Trabajo y democracia hoy. Cuidad de México.