Miami University
Sociology & Gerontology

Faculty & Staff

Janardan Subedi

Professor of Sociology; Black World Studies Program Affiliate

Office:

358 Upham Hall

Phone:

513-529-3432

Fax:

513-529-8525

Email:

subedij@muohio.edu

Janardan Subedi 

Education

1989

PhD Medical Sociology

The University of Akron

1984 

MA Medical Anthropology

Case Western Reserve

1979 

MA Political Science

Tribhuvan University (Nepal)

1975 

BA Political Science and Economics

Tribhuvan University (Nepal)


Areas of Specialization

Medical Sociology:
Health Beliefs, Attitudes, and Utilization; Family and Medicine; Health Delivery Systems; Health Policy and Planning; Health Program Evaluations, Social Epidemiology

International/Cross-cultural Health:
Medical Pluralism; Ethnicity, Culture, and Medical Care; Comparative Health Care Systems; Health and Health Care in Developing Societies (emphasis on South Asia).

Methodology and Statistics:
General Research Methods; Research Design; Survey Research; Multivariate Techniques; Qualitative Techniques.

 

 


Recent Publications

Seufert, Robert L. and Carrozza, Mark A. (2002). “A Test of Palmore's Facts on Aging Quizzes as Alternative Measures.” Journal of Aging Studies .

 

 

H. Sidky, Janardan Subedi , and J. Hamill (2002)   Halfway to the Mountain: The Jirels of Eastern Nepal . Kathmandu, Nepal: Tribhuvan University Press. 490pp.

 

 

H. Sidky. and Janardan Subedi (2000) Bitan: Oracles and Healers in the Karakorams . Jaipur, India: Illustrated Book Publishers, 188 pp.

 

 

Raymond DeVries and Janardan Subedi . 1998.   Bioethics and Society: Constructing the Ethical Enterprise . New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 350 pp.

 

 

Janardan Subedi and Eugene B. Gallagher. 1996.   Society, Health and Disease: Transcultural Perspectives .   New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 345 pp.

 

 

Eugene B. Gallagher and Janardan Subedi . 1995.   Global Perspectives on Health Care .   New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 370 pp.

 

 

Eugene B. Gallagher and Janardan Subedi (2000) “Studying Health in Developing Societies: A Conceptually-Informed Research Agenda,” Pp. 176-184 in Reading in Medical Sociology . Edited by Duane Matcha. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

 

 

Sree Subedi, Mark B. Tausig, Janardan Subedi and Sarah Williams-Blangero (2003), “Mental Illness and Disability Among the Elderly in Developing Countries.”   Journal of Aging and Health . [in press]

 

 

Mark B. Tausig, Janardan Subedi , Sree Subedi, Chris Broughton, Jim Ross,   Robin Singh, John Blangero, and Sarah Williams-Blangero.   “Culture and Psychiatric Symptoms: A Preliminary Report on the Use of the Short-Forms DIS in a Developing Country.”   Journal of Psychiatric Measurement [in press]

 

 

Williams Blangero, Sarah; McGarvey, Stephen T; Janardan Subedi; Weist, Peter, Upadhayay, Ram; Rai, Vev R., Jha, Bharat, olds, Richard G.; Guanling, Wu and John Blangero (2002) “Genetic Component to Susceptibility to Trichuris trichiura: Evidence from Two Asian Populations.” Genetic Epidemiology , 22:254-264.

 

 

Williams Blangero, Sarah; VandeBerg, John L.; Janardan Subedi; Aivaliotis, Rai, Dev R.; Upadhayay, Ram; Jha, Bharat and John Blangero (2002) “Genes on Chromosomes 1 and 13 have Significant Effects on Ascaris Infection.” PNAS , Vol. 99 (8):5533-5538.

 

 

Hamill, James; Sidky, H.; and Janardan Subedi (2002) “Birds for Words in Jirel Structure and Function in a Tibeto-Burman Folk Taxonomy.” Anthropological Linguistics , Vol. 44(1): 65-84.