Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Steering Committee, Interdisciplinary Health PhD Program
Northern Arizona University
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
2014. Parsons M. Dying Unneeded: The Cultural Context of the Russian Mortality Crisis. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
2024. Parsons M, Mason K, Wurtz H, Willen S. "I want the world back": Pandemic loneliness, bodies, and places. Ethos http://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12423
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2022. Parsons M. 'I miss my friends, but I also miss strangers': Pandemic loneliness and the importance of place and practice. SSM - Mental Health: special issue on Journaling and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100121
2022. Parsons M. Thinking about social determinants of health through the relationality of work and drug use. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 36(2):272-289.
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2022. Parsons M. Toward an ethics of global health (de)funding: Thoughts from a maternity hospital project in Kabul, Afghanistan. Global Public Health 17(7):1136-1151.
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2020. Ozawa-de Silva C and Parsons M. Toward an anthropology of loneliness. Transcultural Psychiatry: thematic issue on Loneliness 57(5):613-622.
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2020. Parsons M. Being unneeded in post-Soviet Russia: Lessons for an anthropology of loneliness. Transcultural Psychiatry: thematic issue on Loneliness 57(5):635-648.
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2019. Parsons M and Barger SD. The US mortality crisis: An examination of non-Hispanic white mortality and morbidity in Yavapai County, Arizona. Journal of Community Health 44(4):661-667.
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2019. Parsons M. A global perinatal health indicator falters in Afghanistan. Medical Anthropology 38(3):253-266.
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2009. Obermeyer CM, Sankara A, Bastien V, Parsons M. Gender and HIV testing in Burkina Faso: an exploratory study. Social Science and Medicine: part special issue on Women, Mothers and HIV care in resource-poor settings 69(6):877-884.
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2007. Parsons M and Obermeyer CM. Women's midlife health across cultures: the DAMeS comparative study. Menopause-The Journal of The North American Menopause Society 14(4):760-768.
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2007. Obermeyer CM, Price K, Schulein M, Sievert LL, Anderton DL. Medication use and gender in Massachusetts: results of a household survey. Health Care for Women International 28(7):593-613.
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2004. Obermeyer CM, Schulein M, Hardon A, Sievert LL, Price K, Santiago AC, Lazcano O, Kirumira EK, Neuman M. Gender and medication use: an exploratory, multi-site study. Women & Health 39(4):57-73.
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2002. Obermeyer CM, Schulein M, Kasparian C, and Ammar W. Medication use, gender and socio-economic status in Lebanon: analysis of a national survey. Journal Médical Libanais 50(5-6):216-225.
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2002. Obermeyer CM, Schulein M, Hajji N, Azelmat M. Menopause in Morocco: symptomatology and medical management. Maturitas 41(2):87-95.
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2001. Obermeyer CM, Sahel A, Hajji N, Schulein M. Physicians’ perceptions of menopause and prescribing practices in Morocco. International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 73(1):47-55.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2011. Obermeyer CM, Sankara A, Bastien V, Parsons M. Chapitre 2: Genre et expérce du dépistage du VIH au Burkina Faso. In Les femmes à l’éprueve du VIH dans les pays du Sud : Genre et accès universel à la prise en charge, eds. Alice Desclaux, Pohilippe Msellati, and Khoudia Sow, 17-29. Paris: Agence nationale de recherches sur le sida et les hépatites virales.