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Toward an ethnography of the uninsured: Gay Becker's work in progressSarah Horton
Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA
Med Anthropol 26:293-8. 2007....
Rural Latino immigrant caregivers' conceptions of their children's oral diseaseSarah Horton
Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, University of California San Francisco, 94143 0850, USA
J Public Health Dent 68:22-9. 2008..The aim of this study was to examine Latino immigrant caregivers' explanatory models of the causes of early childhood caries (ECC)...
Rural Mexican immigrant parents' interpretation of children's dental symptoms and decisions to seek treatmentSarah Horton
Dept Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, Center to Address Disparities in Children s Oral Health CAN DO Center, University of California San Francisco, USA
Community Dent Health 26:216-21. 2009..Through ethnography in a small rural U.S. city, we examined low-income Mexican immigrant caregivers' interpretations of their children's dental symptoms and evaluations of the need for treatment...
Reasons for self-medication and perceptions of risk among Mexican migrant farm workersSarah Horton
Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO 80217 3364, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 14:664-72. 2012....
Medical returns: seeking health care in MexicoSarah Horton
University of Colorado, Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Denver, CO 80217 3364, USA
Soc Sci Med 72:1846-52. 2011..In short, we suggest that the perceived contrast in cultures of medicine derives from the difference in organization of health care services on each side of the border...
Stigmatized biologies: Examining the cumulative effects of oral health disparities for Mexican American farmworker childrenSarah Horton
Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver, USA
Med Anthropol Q 24:199-219. 2010..An examination of the long-term effects of farmworker children's ECC illustrates the ways that market-based health care systems can create embodied differences that in turn reproduce a system of social inequality...
A mother's heart is weighed down with stones: a phenomenological approach to the experience of transnational motherhoodSarah Horton
Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver, CO 80217 3364, USA
Cult Med Psychiatry 33:21-40. 2009..Through analysis of the narratives of undocumented Salvadoran mothers residing in the U.S., I show how the strain of such mothers' undocumented status is lived and shouldered within the intersubjective space of the family...
Different subjects: the health care system's participation in the differential construction of the cultural citizenship of Cuban refugees and Mexican immigrantsSarah Horton
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University, USA
Med Anthropol Q 18:472-89. 2004..I show that this negative construction of Mexican immigrants' moral worth leads to unmet health needs and poor health outcomes...
The double burden on safety net providers: placing health disparities in the context of the privatization of health care in the USSarah Horton
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:2702-14. 2006..This study is relevant for the health care of the poor in all health care systems considering restructuring along managerial principles to increase system 'efficiencies.'..
