- Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Anthropology and Archaeology
Charles Mather
Office Hours
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| 10:30a‑12p (by appt) | - | 10:30a‑12p (by appt) | - | - | - | - |
Currently Teaching
| F2023 - ANTH 341 - Medical Anthropology | ||||||||||
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| F2023 - ANTH 631 - Anthropological Theory I | ||||||||||
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| F2023 - ARKY 601 - Theoretical Foundations | ||||||||||
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| W2024 - ANTH 411 - Methods and Analysis for Anthropology | ||||||||||
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| W2024 - ANTH 441 - Problems in the Anthropology of Health | ||||||||||
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Research Interests
Medical anthropology, shrines, and the anthropology of pharmaceuticals.
Publications
Book Chapter
- Mather, Charles and Shanna Sunley. "Local medicines and global pharmaceuticals in Northern Ghana." The Public Sphere and the Politics of Survival Ed. Korbla Puplampu and Wisdom Tettey Accra: Woeli, 2010. 142-160. Print.
- Mather, Charles. "Shrines and compound abandonment: ethnoarchaeological observations in Northern Ghana" Shrines in Africa: History, Politics, and Society Ed. Dawson, Allan Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2009. 95-120. Print.
- Fleising, Usher and Mather, Charles. "From Bank to Bench to Pharmacy Shelf: Biotechnology and the Culture of Finance" In Crossing Over: Genomics in the Public Arena The University of Calgary Press, 2005. 33-46. Print.
Book Review
- Mather, Charles. Review of Making History in Banda by Ann Stahl 2004. 708-709. Print.
Journal Article
- Mather, Charles, Kathryn King and Pam LeBlanc. "Meanings of the heart among Sikh immigrant women with cardiovascular disease.". International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches 1.1 (2008): 39-51. Print.
- Mather, Charles. "Medical innovation, unmet medical need, and the drug pipeline". Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 13.1 (2006): e85-e91. Print.
- King, Kathryn, Leblanc, Pam, Sanguins, Julianne and Mather, Charles. "Gender-Based Challenges Faced by Older Sikh Women as Immigrants: Recognizing and Acting on the Risk of Coronary Artery Disease". Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 38.1 (2006): 16-40. Print.
- Bickford, Julia, Mather, Charles and Fleising, Usher. "Time and the structuring of ritual performance in the xenotransplantation debate". Public Understanding of Science 14.3 (2005): 235-247. Print.
- Mather, Charles. "Accusations of genital theft: A case from Northern Ghana". Culture. Medicine, and Psychiatry 29.10 (2005): 33-52. Print.
- Mather, Charles. "The pipeline and the porcupine: Alternate metaphors of the physician-industry relationship". Social, Science, and Medicine 60.6 (2005): 1323-1334. Print.
- King, Kathryn, Mather, Charles and Sanguins, Julianne. "Ethnocultural affiliation, gender, and cardiovascular disease risk management". Canadian Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing 15.2 (2005): 10-16. Print.
- Mather, Charles, Bickford, Julia and Fleising, Usher. "Unpacking Animal Metaphors for Commercial Relationships in the Biotechnology Industry". New Genetics and Society 23.2 (2004): 187-203. Print.
- Mather, Charles, Fleising, Usher and Taylor, Liam. "Translating Knowledge from Bench to Bedside: The Controversial Social Life of t-PA". Risk Management: An International Journal 6.2 (2004): 49-60. Print.
- Mather, Charles. "Shrines and the domestication of landscape". Journal of Anthropological Research 59.1 (2003): 23-45. Print.
- Gabrilopoulos, Nick, Mather, Charles and Apentiik, Roland. "Lineage organization of the Tallensi Compound: The social logic of domestic space in Northern Ghana". Africa 72.2 (2002): 221-244. Print.
Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed
- Kathryn King-Shier, Pam LeBlanc, Mather, Charles, Sarah Sandham, Cydnee Seneviratne and Andrew Maitland. "Weight and patients' decision to undergo cardiac surgery". Clinical Nursing Research, (2012). Print.
- Kathryn King-Shier, Hude Quan, Mather, Charles, Marja J. Verhoef, Merrill Knutson and William Ghali. "Understanding coronary artery disease patients’ decisions regarding the use of chelation therapy for coronary artery disease: Descriptive decision modeling". International Journal of Nursing Studies 49.9 (2012): 1074-1083. Print.
- Cydnee Seneviratne, Karen Then and Mather, Charles. "Understanding nursing on an acute stroke unit: Perceptions of space, time, and interprofessional Practice.". Journal of Advanced Nursing 10. (2009): 1872-1881. Print.
- Derek MacIsaac, Mather, Charles and Anne Irwin. "Insider Anthropology and the Study of the Canadian Forces Reserves". Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 11.4 (2009): 1-27. Print.
- Harminder Bedi, Pamela LeBlanc, Lisa MacGregor, Mather, Charles and Kathryn King. "Older immigrant Sikh men's perspectives of the challenges of managing coronary heart disease risk.". Journal of Men's Health 5.3 (2008): 218-226. Print.
Students
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