Appendix C
Suggested Readings for Krieger Presentation (Chapter 2)
ECOSOCIAL THEORY, EMBODIED HISTORIES, POPULATIONS, AND HEALTH INEQUITIES
Krieger, N. 1994. Epidemiology and the web of causation: Has anyone seen the spider? Social Science & Medicine 39:887-903.
Krieger, N. 2001. A glossary for social epidemiology. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 55:693-700.
Krieger, N. 2001. Theories for social epidemiology in the 21st century: An ecosocial perspective. International Journal of Epidemiology 30:668-677.
Krieger, N. 2005. Embodiment: A conceptual glossary for epidemiology. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 59:350-355.
Krieger, N. 2008. Ladders, pyramids, and champagne: The iconography of health inequities. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 62:1098-1104.
Krieger, N. 2011. Epidemiology and the people’s health: Theory and context. New York: Oxford University Press.
Krieger, N. 2012. Who and what are “populations”?—Historical debates, current controversies, and implications for understanding “population health” and rectifying health inequities. Milbank Quarterly 90:634-681.
Krieger, N. 2013. Embodiment and ecosocial theory: An interview conducted by Kerstin Palm, Sigrid Schmitz, and Marion Mangelsdorf. Freiburg Gender Studies Journal (Freiburger Zeitschrift für Geschlechterstudien) 19:109-120.
Krieger, N. 2014. Got theory?—On the 21st century CE rise of explicit use of epidemiologic theories of disease distribution: A review and ecosocial analysis. Current Epidemiology Reports 1(1):45-56.
Krieger, N. 2014. The real ecological fallacy: Epidemiology and global climate change. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. doi: 10.1136/jech-2014-205027.
PUBLIC HEALTH DISPARITIES GEOCODING PROJECT: PUTTING HEALTH INEQUITIES ON THE MAP
Chen, J. T., D. H. Rehkopf, P. D. Waterman, S. V. Subramanian, B. A. Coull, B. Cohen, M. Ostrem, and N. Krieger. 2006. Mapping and measuring social disparities in premature mortality: The impact of census tract poverty within and across Boston neighborhoods, 1999-2001. Journal of Urban Health 83:1063-1085.
Krieger, N., P. D. Waterman, J. T. Chen, D. H. Rehkopf, and S. V. Subramanian. 2004. The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project Monograph. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/thegeocodingproject (accessed June 7, 2017).
Krieger, N., J. T. Chen, P. D. Waterman, D. H. Rehkopf, and S. V. Subramanian. 2005. Painting a truer picture of US socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequalities: The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project. American Journal of Public Health 95:312-323.
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, JIM CROW, POLICING, AND HEALTH
Conceptual
Krieger, N. 2003. Does racism harm health? Did child abuse exist before 1962?—On explicit questions, critical science, and current controversies: An ecosocial perspective. American Journal of Public Health 93:194-199.
Krieger, N. 2012. Methods for the scientific study of discrimination and health: From societal injustice to embodied inequality—an ecosocial approach. American Journal of Public Health 102:936-945.
Krieger, N. 2014. Discrimination and health inequities. In Social epidemiology, edited by L. F. Berkman, I. Kawachi, and M. Glymour, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 63-125.
Krieger, N., D. L. Rowley, A. A. Herman, B. Avery, M. T. Phillips. 1993. Racism, sexism, and social class: Implications for studies of health, disease, and well-being. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 9(Suppl):82-122.
Empirical: Jim Crow
Krieger, N., J. T. Chen, B. Coull, P. D. Waterman, J. Beckfield. 2013. The unique impact of abolition of Jim Crow laws on reducing health inequities in infant death rates and implications for choice of comparison groups in analyzing societal determinants of health. American Journal of Public Health 103:2234-2244.
Krieger, N., J. T. Chen, B. A. Coull, J. Beckfield, M. V. Kiang, P. D. Waterman. 2014. Jim Crow and age-period-cohort analysis of premature mortality among the US black and white population, 1960-2009. Epidemiology 25:494-504.
Empirical: Policing, Including Death Caused by Legal Intervention
Cooper, H., L. Moore, S. Gruskin, and N. Krieger. 2004. Characterizing perceived police-related violence: Implications for public health. American Journal of Public Health 94:1109-1118.
The Guardian. “The Counted.” http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database# (accessed May 30, 2017).
Krieger, N., M. V. Kiang, J. T. Chen, and P. D. Waterman. Trends in US deaths due to legal intervention among black and white men, age 15-34 years, by county income level: 1960-2010. Harvard Public Health Review 3. http://harvardpublichealthreview.org/190 (accessed June 7, 2017).
“Nature” Versus “Nurture” Versus the “Interdependence of Nature and Nurture,” Chance, and Flexible Phenotypes
Comfort, N. 2014. The science of human perfection: How genes became the heart of American medicine. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Davey Smith, G. 2011. Epidemiology, epigenetics, and the “gloomy prospect”: Embracing randomness in population health research and practice. International Journal of Epidemiology 40:537-562.
Gilbert, S. F., and D. Epel. 2009. Ecological developmental biology: Integrating epigenetics, medicine, and evolution. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
Hogben, L. 1933. Nature and nurture. London: Williams & Norgate, Ltd.
Keller, E. F. 2010. The mirage of a space between nature and nurture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Longino, H. 2013. Studying human behavior: How scientists investigate aggression and sexuality. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Piermsa, T., J. A. van Gils. 2011. The flexible phenotype: A body-centered integration of ecology, physiology, and behavior. New York: Oxford University Press.
Richardson, S. S., and H. Stevens. 2015. Postgenomics: Perspectives on biology and the genome. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Tabery, J. 2014. Beyond versus: The struggle to understand the interaction of nature and nurture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Tabery, J. 2015. Debating interaction: The history, and an explanation. International Journal of Epidemiology. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv053.
DEBATES OVER POPULATION ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTIONS (PAFs), CANCER, AND CAUSATION
Works That Explicitly or Implicitly Add Up PAF to 100%
Doll, R, and R. Peto. 1981. The causes of cancer: Quantitative estimates of avoidable risks of cancer in the United States today. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 66:1191-1308.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 2015. County health rankings & roadmap: Building a culture of health, county by county. Our approach. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program/ University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, School of Medicine and Public Health. http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/our-approach (accessed June 7, 2017).
Tomasetti, C., and B. Vogelstein. 2015. Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions. Science 347:78-81.
Works That Critique Adding Up PAF to 100%
Poole, C. 2015. A history of population attributable fraction and related measures. Annals of Epidemiology 25:147-154.
Rothman, K. J., and S. 2005. Greenland. Causation and causal inference in epidemiology. American Journal of Public Health 95:S144-S150.
Weinberg, C. R., and D. Zaykin. 2015. Is bad luck the main cause of cancer? Journal of the National Cancer Institute 107(7).
WHO (World Health Organization). 2002. The World Health Report 2002: Reducing risks, promoting healthy life. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO.