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Below are citations to my publications. Please reach out for copies of my work.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

 

Adams, Crystal. 2022. Pregnancy and birth in the United States during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The views of doulas. Birth 49(1): 116-122.

Adams, Crystal, and Mica Curtin-Bowen. 2021. Countervailing powers in the labor room: The doula–doctor relationship in the United States. Social science & medicine, 285, 114296.

 

Harder, Brittany and Crystal Adams. 2020. “Conducting Race-Based Focus Groups on Health Issues: Confronting Challenges in Design, Implementation, and Analysis.” Sage Methods Cases Medicine and Health.

 

Adams, Crystal. 2020. “Toward an Institutional Perspective on Social Capital Health Interventions: Lay Community Health Workers as Social Capital Builders.” Sociology of Health and Illness 42(1): 95-110.

 

Adams, Crystal and Brittany M. Harder. 2019. “Lifestyles Are Risky, Too: The Social Construction of Risk and Empowerment in Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements.” Health, Risk, & Society 21(1-2): 17-34.

 

Adams, Crystal, Brittany M. Harder, Anwesa Chatterjee, and Liza Hayes Mathias. 2019. “Health Consumerism, Acculturation, and Cultural Health Toolkits: The Case of Prescription Drug Advertising.” Qualitative Health Research 29(10): 1419-1432.

 

Adams, Crystal, Anwesa Chatterjee, Brittany M. Harder, and Liza Hayes Mathias. 2018. “Beyond Unequal Access: Acculturation, Race, and Resistance to Pharmaceuticalization in the United States.” Social Science and Medicine-Population Health 4:350-357.

 

Adams, Crystal, and Shameka Poetry Thomas*. 2018. "Alternative Prenatal Care Interventions to Alleviate Black–White Maternal/Infant Health Disparities." Sociology Compass 12(1): e12549.

 

Adams, Crystal, and Brittany M. Harder*. 2017. “Diet, Exercise… and Drugs: Social Constructions of Healthy Lifestyles in Weight-Related Prescription Drug Advertisements.” Critical Public Health 28(4):439-449.

 

Adams, Crystal. 2016. "Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs Can Inform the Public and Improve Health." JAMA Oncology 2(11): 1395-1396.

 

Adams, Crystal. 2016. “Fair Balance and Adequate Provision in Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Online Banner Advertisements: A Content Analysis.” Journal of Medical Internet Research 18(2):e33.

 

Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Stephen Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, Rebecca Gasior Altman, Crystal Adams, Elizabeth Hoover, and Ruth Simpson. 2012. “Embodied Health Movements.” Pp. 15-33 in Contested Illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements, edited by Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Stephen Zavestoski.

 

Fennell, Mary and Crystal Adams. 2011. “U.S. Healthcare Organizations: Complexity, Turbulence and Multilevel Change.” Annual Review of Sociology 37: 205-219.

 

Adams, Crystal, Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Julia Green Brody, Ruthann Rudel, Ami Zota, Sarah Dunagan, Jessica Tovar, and Sharyle Patton. 2011. “Disentangling the Exposure Experience: The Roles of Community Context and Report-Back of Environmental Exposure Data.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 52(2):180-196.

 

Brown, Phil, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Stephen Zavestoski, Laura Senier, Rebecca Altman, Elizabeth Hoover, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, and Crystal Adams. 2011. “Social Movements and Health.” Pp. 117-137 in Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing, edited by Bernice A. Pescosolido, Jack K. Martin, Jane McLeod, and Anne Rogers.

 

Brown, Phil, Crystal Adams, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Laura Senier. 2010. “Health Social Movements: History, Current Work, and Future Directions.” Pp. 380-394 in Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition, edited by Peter Conrad, Chloe Bird, Allan Fremont, and Stefan Timmermans.

 

Brown, Phil, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Stephen Zavestoski, Laura Senier, Rebecca Gasior Altman, Elizabeth Hoover, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, and Crystal Adams. 2010. “Field Analysis and Policy Ethnography in the Study of Health Social Movements.” Pp. 101-116 in Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care, edited by Jane Banaszak-Holl, Sandra R. Levitsky and Mayer N. Zald.

 

Rafalovich, Adam and Crystal Adams. 2007. “Cease-and-Desist Regulation and Reintegrative Shaming: The Case of the Direct-To-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs.” Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 35(1):35-50.

 

Other Publications

 

Murphy, John W., Karen A. Callaghan, Crystal Adams, Berkeley Franz, and Tashina Vavuris.

 “St. Mark Community Health Project Program Report.” 2015. Report submitted to the Minister of Health’s Office in St. George’s, Grenada.

 

Adams, Crystal. 2015. Review of Health Rights are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978 by Jenna Loyd. Mobilization 20(1): 277-278.

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