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» Charles Mather
Charles Mather
Associate Professor
+1 (403) 220-6426
Earth Sciences 754
cmmather@ucalgary.ca
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Currently Teaching
W2024 - ANTH 411 - Methods and Analysis for Anthropology
Details
Syllabus
LEC 1
TR 14:00 - 15:15
W2024 - ANTH 441 - Problems in the Anthropology of Health
Details
Syllabus
LEC 1
MWF 11:00 - 11:50
view past courses
Research Interests
Medical anthropology, shrines, and the anthropology of pharmaceuticals.
Publications
Book Chapter
Mather, Charles and Shanna Sunley
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Local medicines and global pharmaceuticals in Northern Ghana.
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The Public Sphere and the Politics of Survival
Ed.
Korbla Puplampu and Wisdom Tettey
Accra: Woeli, 2010. 142-160. Print.
Mather, Charles
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Shrines and compound abandonment: ethnoarchaeological observations in Northern Ghana
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Shrines in Africa: History, Politics, and Society
Ed.
Dawson, Allan
Calgary:
University of Calgary Press
, 2009. 95-120. Print.
Fleising, Usher and Mather, Charles
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From Bank to Bench to Pharmacy Shelf: Biotechnology and the Culture of Finance
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In Crossing Over: Genomics in the Public Arena The University of Calgary Press, 2005. 33-46. Print.
Book Review
Mather, Charles
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Review of Making History in Banda by Ann Stahl
2004. 708-709. Print.
Journal Article
Mather, Charles, Kathryn King and Pam LeBlanc
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Meanings of the heart among Sikh immigrant women with cardiovascular disease.
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. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches
1.1 (2008): 39-51. Print.
Mather, Charles
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Medical innovation, unmet medical need, and the drug pipeline
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. Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
13.1 (2006): e85-e91. Print.
King, Kathryn, Leblanc, Pam, Sanguins, Julianne and Mather, Charles
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Gender-Based Challenges Faced by Older Sikh Women as Immigrants: Recognizing and Acting on the Risk of Coronary Artery Disease
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. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research
38.1 (2006): 16-40. Print.
Bickford, Julia, Mather, Charles and Fleising, Usher
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Time and the structuring of ritual performance in the xenotransplantation debate
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Public Understanding of Science
14.3 (2005): 235-247. Print.
Mather, Charles
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Accusations of genital theft: A case from Northern Ghana
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. Culture. Medicine, and Psychiatry
29.10 (2005): 33-52. Print.
Mather, Charles
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The pipeline and the porcupine: Alternate metaphors of the physician-industry relationship
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. Social, Science, and Medicine
60.6 (2005): 1323-1334. Print.
King, Kathryn, Mather, Charles and Sanguins, Julianne
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Ethnocultural affiliation, gender, and cardiovascular disease risk management
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. Canadian Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
15.2 (2005): 10-16. Print.
Mather, Charles, Bickford, Julia and Fleising, Usher
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Unpacking Animal Metaphors for Commercial Relationships in the Biotechnology Industry
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. New Genetics and Society
23.2 (2004): 187-203. Print.
Mather, Charles, Fleising, Usher and Taylor, Liam
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Translating Knowledge from Bench to Bedside: The Controversial Social Life of t-PA
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. Risk Management: An International Journal
6.2 (2004): 49-60. Print.
Mather, Charles
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Shrines and the domestication of landscape
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. Journal of Anthropological Research
59.1 (2003): 23-45. Print.
Gabrilopoulos, Nick, Mather, Charles and Apentiik, Roland
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Lineage organization of the Tallensi Compound: The social logic of domestic space in Northern Ghana
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. Africa
72.2 (2002): 221-244. Print.
Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed
Kathryn King-Shier, Pam LeBlanc, Mather, Charles, Sarah Sandham, Cydnee Seneviratne and Andrew Maitland
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Weight and patients' decision to undergo cardiac surgery
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Clinical Nursing Research
, (2012). Print.
Kathryn King-Shier, Hude Quan, Mather, Charles, Marja J. Verhoef, Merrill Knutson and William Ghali
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Understanding coronary artery disease patients’ decisions regarding the use of chelation therapy for coronary artery disease: Descriptive decision modeling
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International Journal of Nursing Studies
49.9 (2012): 1074-1083. Print.
Cydnee Seneviratne, Karen Then and Mather, Charles
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Understanding nursing on an acute stroke unit: Perceptions of space, time, and interprofessional Practice.
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. Journal of Advanced Nursing
10. (2009): 1872-1881. Print.
Derek MacIsaac, Mather, Charles and Anne Irwin
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Insider Anthropology and the Study of the Canadian Forces Reserves
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. Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
11.4 (2009): 1-27. Print.
Harminder Bedi, Pamela LeBlanc, Lisa MacGregor, Mather, Charles and Kathryn King
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Older immigrant Sikh men's perspectives of the challenges of managing coronary heart disease risk.
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. Journal of Men's Health
5.3 (2008): 218-226. Print.
Courses
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Sarah Jacobs
2016 to Present
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