Oths is conducting an ongoing restudy of treatment choice in the northern Peruvian Andes hamlet of Chugurpampa, where she worked over 25 years ago. Topics include changes and continuities in medical beliefs and practices, secular trends in child growth, and the demographic transition, all in the context of modernization and climate change.
My interests include: comparative medical systems and treatment decision making; traditional and alternative healers, health beliefs, and health behaviors; reproductive health; gender, ethnicity, and health; food use, and, public health.
I am a medical anthropologist with an area specialization in Latin America.
I have carried out research on practitioner-patient interactions in a chiropractic clinic, health seeking behavior in highland Peru, the social value of food in Brazil, psychosocial factors in low birth weight in the southern United States, domestic violence and farmers markets.
