Section: Staff Profiles

Nathaniel Wander

Name
Dr Nathaniel Wander
Title
Senior Research Fellow on Transnational Tobacco Industry, Global Public Health Unit
Organisation
Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
2.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 3749
E-Mail
URL
http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/staff/nathaniel_wander
Wander

Qualifications

MA, MPhil, PhD—Anthropology, Columbia University; 

MS—Counseling, Portland State University

Background Information

Nathaniel is a public health anthropologist whose background includes research in tobacco control, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse and addiction, and possession and exorcism. 

He previously worked in the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education of the University of California, San Francisco and has worked and studied in the U.S., Israel, France, Peru, India and Mexico.

Research Interests

Nathaniel is currently working with Dr Jeff Collin on a project using tobacco industry documents to study industry influence on health policy and governance especially in the ‘developing’ world. 

He is interested in what this large (70+ million pages) on-line corpus of industry documents reveals about how corporations manipulate culture and usurp social institutions, and how it can contribute to the anthropological study of commodities and of sustained ‘underdevelopment’.

Publications

  • Holden C, Lee K, Gilmore A, Fooks G, Wander N. (2010) The Impact of Regional Trade Integration on Firm Organization and Strategy: British American Tobacco in the Andean Pact. Business and Politics 12; article 3.
  •  Holden C, Lee K, Gilmore A, Fooks G, Wander N. (2010) Trade Policy, Health, and Corporate Influence: British American Tobacco and China's Accession to the World Trade Organization. International Journal of Health Services 40:421-441.
  • Wander N, Malone RE. (2007)  Keeping Public Institutions Invested in Tobacco. Journal of Business Ethics 73:161-176. 
  • Wander N, Malone RE. (2006)  Making Big Tobacco Give In: You Lose, They Win. American Journal of Public Health 96:2048-2054.
  • Wander N, Malone RE. (2006)  Fiscal Versus Social Responsibility: How Philip Morris Shaped the Public Funds Divestment Debate. Tobacco Control 15:231–241.
  • Wander N, Malone RE. (2004)  Selling Off or Selling Out? Medical Schools and Ethical Leadership in Tobacco Stock Divestment. Academic Medicine 79:1017-1026.
  • Campbell B, Wander N, Stark M, Holbert T.  (1995)  Treating cigarette smoking in drug-abusing clients. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 12:89-94.
  • Wander N.  (1993)  The potential for countertransference in AIDS counseling.  Illness, Crisis and Loss: Multi-disciplinary Linkages 3:16-26.
  • Wander N.  (1983) Structure, contradiction and “resolution” in mythology: Father’s brother’s daughter marriage and the treatment of women in Genesis 11-50.  Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University 13:75-99.
  • Wander N.  (1983)  Fire and water in the enactment of caste ideology in West Bengal.  In R. Langstan, Research on Bengal: Proceedings of the 1981 Bengal Studies Association. Asian Studies Center, U Michigan: Ann Arbor, pp 35-44.
  • Wander N. (1977) Totem, caste et parenté. L'Homme 17:111-115.

This page was published on 13 May 2011


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