John Brett, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, UC Denver, Anthropology

Research Interests

evolutionary medicine
ethnobotany
medical anthropology
evaluation research
nutritional anthropology

Education

Arapahoe Community College, A.A., Psychology
University of Northern Colorado, B.A., Botany
University of Colorado at Denver, M.A., Anthropology
University of California, San Francisco & University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., Anthropology

Selected Publications

Referred Publications, Invited Chapters, and Other Contributions

Brett, John “We Sacrifice and Eat Less” The Structural Complexities of Microfinance Participation. Human Organization 65(1), 2006.

Brett, J., J. Heimendinger, C. Boender, C. Morin, J. Marshall. Using Ethnography to Improve Intervention Design. American Journal of Health Promotion 16(6):331-340, 2002.

Schoeberlein, D. R., J. L. Woolston and J. Brett. School Based HIV Prevention: A Promising Model. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America: Children and Adolescents Affected by HIV/AIDS: A Mental Health Challenge. Adnopoz, Jean and Steven Berkowitz, eds. Pp. 389-405. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 2000.

Brett, J. and M. Heinrich. Introduction: Culture, Perception and the Environment Journal of Applied Botany (Angewadte Botanik) 72(67-69), 1998.

Brett, J. Medicinal Plant Selection Criteria: The Cultural Interpretation of Chemical Senses Journal of Applied Botany (Angewadte Botanik) 72(70-74), 1998.

Brett, J. Invited review essay of "Eating on the Wild Side", Nina L. Etkin, ed. and "People-Plant Relationships: Setting Research Priorities", Joel Flagler and Raymond Poincelot, eds. Reviews in Anthropology, 25:35-47, 1996.

Brett, John and Susan Niermeyer "Neonatal Jaundice: A Disorder of Transition or an Adaptive Process?" Medical Anthropology Quarterly (n.s.) 4(2):149-161, 1990.

Publications in Refereed Symposia Proceedings

Quiatt, D., S. Koester, and J. Brett. "Wildlife Conservation Management: Contributions from Cultural Anthropologists." In Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Primate Society, Bali 8/2/94-8/8/94, 1995.

Quiatt, D., J. Brett, Richard M. and S. Quiatt. Rhesus Monkey Feeding Coalitions. 13th Congress of the International Primate Society Abstracts, Nagoya, Japan, 1990.

Quiatt, D., S. Quiatt, and J. Brett. "Lifting and Nonlifting by Rhesus Monkeys on Cayo Santiago: Social Dimensions of Food Procurement." International Journal of Primatology 8(5):526, 1987.

Books and Book Chapters

J. Brett. Documentation and Assessment of American Indian Presence in Rocky Mountain National Park. Monograph prepared for the National Park Service. (peer reviewed), 2003.

Brett, J. and S. Niermeyer. Adaptive Significance of Neonatal Jaundice. Invited Chapter in "Evolutionary Perspectives on Medicine, Wenda Trevathan, James McKenna and, E.O. Smith eds., Oxford University Press. (Chapter and book peer reviewed), 1999.

Brett, J. and S. Niermeyer "Neonatal Jaundice: The Cultural History of the Creation and Maintenance of a “Disease” of Newborns" Invited chapter in Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood, Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargent, eds. Pp. 111-129 Berkeley: University of California Press. (Chapter and book peer reviewed), 1998.

Book Reviews

Brett, J. Book Review: Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives, Phillipe Descola and Gisli Palsson (eds.), London: Routledge (1996) in Journal of Ethnopharmacology 64(2): 192-193, 1999.

S. Niermeyer and J. Brett. Book review: "Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale" T. Berry Brazelton and J. Kevin Nugent. Cambridge University Press in The Quarterly Review of Biology 72(2): 235-236, 1997.

Brett, J. Book Review: "Intestinal Flora, Immunity, Nutrition and Health, Simopoulos, A.P., T. Corring, and A. Rérat, eds. World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics, vol. 74 (1993), in Ecology of Food and Nutrition 34: 86-88, 1995.

Brett, J. and S. Niermeyer. Book Review: "Reproductive Medicine", G. Frajese, E. Steinberger and L.J. Rodriguez-Rigau, eds. Serono Symposia Publication #93. NY: Raven Press, The Quarterly Review of Biology 69(3):431, 1994.