Areas of Research/Interest: Anthropology of science and medicine, gender, money and other measures of value, the ethnography of work, China, U.S.

Selected Works:
1973. The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese Village. Stanford: Stanford University Press, reprinted 1988.
(Authorized Taiwan edition, Caves Books, 1977, 1986.)

1981. Chinese Ritual and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society, coedited with Hill Gates. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
(Authorized Taiwan edition, Caves Books 1981; reprinted SMC Publishing, 1997.)

1987. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Boston: Beacon Press.
English edition, 1989, Open University Press.
German translation, 1989 Die Frau im Krper, Campus Verlag.
Winner of Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, 1988
Second Edition, 1992
Third Edition, forthcoming, 2001

1994. Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS, Beacon Press. (Japanese translation, 1997)

In preparation:
Meanings of Money, Measures of Value, 1986 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures (Cambridge University Press).
Fluid Minds: A Cultural Analysis of the Mental in Late 20th Century U.S. (Princeton University Press).

Under consideration:
Rethinking Rationality, Foundations of Cultural Thought series, Dan Segal and Don Brenneis, eds.. (Rowman and Littlefield Pub.).

Articles:
1974. "Affines and the Rituals of Kinship," in Chinese Religion and Ritual, Arthur Wolf, ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
____. "The Power and Pollution of Chinese Women," in Women in Chinese Society, Margery Wolf and Roxanne Witke, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Reprinted in Studies in Chinese Society, Arthur P. Wolf. Stanford University Press, 1978.)

1975. "Chinese_Style and Western_Style Doctors in Northern Taiwan," in Medicine in Chinese Cultures: Comparative Studies of Health Care in Chinese and Other Societies, Arthur Kleinman, Peter Kunstadter, E. Russell Alexander and James L. Gale, eds. Washington, D.C.: Fogarty International Center. (Reprinted in Culture and Healing in Asian Societies, Arthur Kleinman, et.al., eds. Schenkman, 1978.)
____. "Sacred and Secular Medicine in a Taiwan Village: A Study of Cosmological Disorders," in Medicine in Chinese Cultures. (Reprinted in Culture and Healing in Asian Societies, Arthur Kleinman, et.al., eds. Schenkman, 1978.)

1976. "Segmentation in Chinese Lineages: A View through Written Genealogies," The American Ethnologist 3:l.

1979. "The Problem of Efficacy: Strong and Weak Illocutionary Acts," Man, 14(1): 1_17.
____. "Domestic Architecture in Taiwan: Continuity and Change," in Value Change in Chinese Society, Richard W. Wilson, Amy Auerbach Wilson and Sidney L. Greenblatt, eds. Praeger: N.Y.
1981. "Introduction," with Hill Gates, in The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
____. "The Thai Ti_kong Festival," in The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

1982. "Rules in Oracles and Games," Man 17: 302_12.

1984. "Pregnancy, Labor and Body Image in the United States," Social Science and Medicine, 19 (11):1201_1206.

1985. Contributor, Sociology and Anthropology in the People's Republic of China. Alice Rossi, ed. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C.

1987. "Is There a Woman In the Text?" Johns Hopkins Magazine, Great Lecture #5, October.

1988. "Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause," International Journal of Health Services 18(2):237-254. [Reprinted in Women's Health, Politics, and Power: Essays on Sex/Gender, Medicine, and Public Health, Elizabeth Fee, Nancy Krieger, eds., Baywood, 1994; Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory, Sheila Conroy, Nadia Median, and Sarah Stanbury, eds., Columbia University Press, 1996; Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, Peter Brown, ed., Baywood Publishing.]
----. "Premenstrual Syndrome: Discipline, Work and Anger in Late Industrial Societies," in Blood Magic: New Perspectives in the Anthropology of Menstruation, Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press. [Reprinted in The Politics of Women’s Bodies, Ruth Weitz, ed. Oxford University Press, 1998; Women, Science and Technology, Mary Wyer, Mary Barbercheck, Donna Cookmeyer, Hatice Ozturk, and Marta Wayne, eds. Routledge, 2000.]
----. "Gender and Ideological Differences in Representations of Life and Death," in Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, James Watson and Evelyn Rawski, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1989 "The Cultural Construction of Gendered Bodies: Biology and Metaphors of Production and Destruction," Ethnos 54 (3-4):143-160.

1990. "Science and Women's Bodies: Forms of Anthropological Knowledge," in Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science, Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller and Sally Shuttleworth, eds. Methuen.
----. "Toward an Anthropology of Immunology: The Body as Nation State. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 4(4):410-426. (Reprinted in Science Studies Reader, Mario Biagioli, ed., Routledge, 1998)
----. "The Ideology of Reproduction: The Reproduction of Ideology," pp. 300-314 in Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture," Faye Ginsberg and Anna Tsing, eds. Beacon Press: Boston.

1991. "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16 (3):485-501. [translation: "Ei und Sperma -- Eine wissenschaftliche Romanze aus dem Stoff, aus dem die Geschlechterstereotypein sind" In Metaphernanalyse. Michael B. Buchholz, ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1993.]
[reprinted in Fields of Writing: Readings Across the Disciplines, 4th Ed. Comley et al. eds. N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1998; Looking Forward: A Women's Health Agenda for the 21st Century, Kary Moss, ed., Duke University Press; Women's Health, Nancy Worcester and Mafianne Whatley, eds., Kendall/Hunt; The Sociology of Gender, Sarah Franklin, ed., Edward Elgar; Gender and Scientific Authority, Barbara Laslett, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Helen Longino and Evelynn M. Hammonds, eds., University of Chicago Press, 1996; Counterbalance: Gendered Perspectives for Composition, Carolyn Fogan, ed., Broadview Press, Canada; Gender, Culture and Ethnographic Practice, Louise Lamphere, Helen Ragone, and Patricia Zavella, eds. Routledge; Writing Into Worlds, Buffington, Dogenese and Moneyhum, eds. Blair Press; Issues in Feminism, 4th ed., Sheila Ruth, ed., Mayfield Publishing Co.; Frame Work: Cultural Story Frames and College Writing,, John Sullivan, ed., Bedford Books; Landmarks: A Process Reader for Canadian Writers, Julie Walchli, Roberta Birks, and Tomi Eng, eds, Prentice Hall; Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Sharlene Hesse-Biber, ed., Oxford University Press, 1997; Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader, Janet Price and Margrit Shildriek, eds, Edinburgh University Press, 1998; Effective Writing, Edna Troians and Julia Scott, eds, Prentice Hall, 1999; ]
[revised and updated in Gender and Health: An International Perspective. Carolyn Sargent and Caroline Brettell, eds. 1995, Prentice Hall. ]
----. "Body Narratives, Body Boundaries," in Cultural Studies Now and in the Future, Cary Nelson, Paula Treichler and Larry Grossberg, eds., Routledge.
----. "Metaphors of Bleeding in Women," in Clinical Issues in Obstetric, Gynecological, and Neonatal Nursing, NAACOG, 2 (3). [Reprinted in Kenney et al, Complexities of Women, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1996]

1992. "The End of the Body?" American Ethnologist, February:120-138 [Reprinted in The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy, Roger Lancaster and Michaela di Leonardo, eds. Routledge, 1997]

1993 "Histories of Immune Systems," Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry , 17:67-76

1994 "The Story of a Scientific Romance," Orgyn, 3, 7-11.
----. "Ethnography of Natural Selection in the 1990s", Cultural Anthropology, spring.

1995 "From Reproduction to HIV" in Conceiving the New World Order:The Global Stratification of Reproduction, Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg, eds. University of California Press.
---- "Feto come tumore: gravidanza, sistema immunitario a concezioni culturali del sé e dell `altro'" (Being Pregnant or Tolerating a Tumor: Pregnancy, the Immune System and Cultural Concepts of Self and Other) pp. 119-134 In Giovanna Fiume, ed. Madri: Storia di un Ruolo Sociale. Marsilio: Venice.
----. "Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science: Citadels, Rhizomes and String Figures" pp. 97-189 In Technoscience and Cyberculture: A Cultural Study edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Martinsons and Michael Menser,. NY: Routledge.
----. "Working Across the Human-Other Divide," pp. 261-175 In Reinventing Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge, Ruth Hubbard and Linda Birke, eds. Bloomington, Ind.:University of Indiana Press.

1996. with Bjorn Claeson, Wendy Richardson, Monica Schoch-Spana and Karen-Sue Taussig, "`Scientific Literacy'," What It is, Why It's Important, and Why Scientists Think We Don't Have It: The Case of Immunology and the Immune System," in Naked Science, Laura Nader, ed. N.Y.: Routledge..
----. "Interpreting Electron Micrographs," in What is Social Knowledge For? Henrietta Moore, ed. Routledge
-----. "Meeting Polemics with Irenics in the Science Wars," in "The Science Wars," special issue of Social Text, Andrew Ross and Stanley Aronowitz, eds. Reprinted in Science Wars, Andrew Ross, ed. .Durham, ND: Duke University Press.
----. "The Society of Flows and the Flows of Culture," In Anthropology and its Interlocuters: Manuel Castells, special issue of Critique of Anthropology Ida Susser, ed.
----. "Flexible Bodies: Science and Work in the Age of Flexible Accumulation" The Ecologist, winter.
----. "The Body at Work: Boundaries and Collectivities in the Late 20th Century," In The Social and Political Body, Wolfgang Natter and Theodore R. Schatzki, eds. N.Y.:Guilford Press.

1997 "The Woman in the Menopausal Body" in Reinterpreting the Menopause: Cultural and Ethical Issues Paul Komesaroff, Philipa Rothfield and Jeanne Daly, eds. N.Y.: Routledge
----. "Anthropological Fieldwork and the Study of Science as Culture: from Citadels to String Figures" in Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, Akhil Gupta and James Fergusonn, eds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
----. "Managing Americans: Policy and Changes in the Meanings of Work and the Self" In Anthropology of Policy: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power, Chris Shore and Susan Wright, eds. London: Routledge.
----. "Designing Flexibility: Science and Work in an Age of Flexible Accumulation," Science as Culture (6) 3:327-362
----. "Pigs as People, People As Pigs," In A House for Pigs and People (texts on the House for Pigs and People by Carsten Höller and Rosemarie Trockel at the documenta X, Kassel), Carsten Höller and Rosemarie Trockel, eds. Köln: Walther König.
----. "Corporeal Flows: The Immune System, Global Economies of Food and Implications for Health," (with Richard A. Cone) The Ecologist 27(3) Translated into Danish in Global Økologi 4, 1997
----. "The New Culture of Health: Gender and the Immune System in America," In Bodily Boundaries, Sexualised Genders and Medical Discourses, Marion de Ras and Victoria Grace, eds. Palmerston North, New Zealand: The Dunmore Press.

1998 with Laury Oaks, Karen-Sue Taussig, and Ariane van der Straten, "AIDS, Knowledge, and Discrimination in the Inner City: An Anthropological Analysis of Experiences of Injection Drug Users" In Gary Downey, Joe Dumit and Sharon Traweek, eds, Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in the Borderlands of Technoscience Santa Fe: SAR Press.
----. "Die neue Kultur der Gesundheit. Soziale Geschlechtsidentität und das Immunsystem in Amerika," In Physiologie und Industrielle Gesellschaft, Philipp Sarasin and Jakob Tanner, eds. Frankfurt:Suhrkamp.
----. "The Fetus as Intruder: Mother’s Bodies and Medical Metaphors" In Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots , Robbie Davis-Floyd and Joe Dumit, Eds. N.Y.:Routledge.
----. "The Immune System, Global Flows of Foodstuffs, and the New Culture of Health," (with Richard A. Cone) in The Visible Woman, Paula Treichler and Constance Penley, eds. N.Y.: New York University Press.
----. "Fluid Bodies, Managed Nature," In Nature at the Millenium: Remaking Reality at the End of the Twentieth Century, Bruce Willems-Braun and Noel Castree, eds. London: Routledge.
----. "Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science: Citadels, Rhizomes and String Figures," Science Technology and Human Values, 23(1): 24-45.
----. "The Porous Body," In The Body in Everyday Life, Sarah Nettleton and Jonathan Watson, Eds. N.Y.: Routledge.

1999 "The Woman in the Flexible Body," Revisioning Women, Health and Healing, Adele Clarke, ed. N.Y.: Routledge.
----, "Flexible Survivors," Anthropology Newsletter 40 (6): 5-7. (Reprinted in Cultural Values)

2000 "The Rationality of Mania," Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Roddey Reid and Sharon Traweek, eds. Routledge.
----, "Mind/Body Problems," American Ethnologist, fall.
In press:
"Reproduction," In Critical Terms for Gender Studies, Catherine Stimpson and Gilbert Herdt, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
"Flexibility and Health," In Theorizing Medicine, Health and Society, Simon Williams, Jonathan Gave and Michael Calnan, eds. N.Y.: Sage.
"Rationality, Feminism, and Mind," In Science, Medicine, Technology: The Difference Feminism Has Made, Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger, eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
"What is Rape," In Evolution, Violence, and Gender, Cheryl B. Travis, Ed. MIT Press.
"The Culture of Mania," In Subjectivity and Experience Transformed, Joao Biehl, Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman, eds. Harvard UP.