PLEASE NOTE: all of these articles link to PDF files .

2008 Bourgois, Philippe. “The Mystery of Marijuana: Science and the U.S. War on Drugs.” Substance Use & Misuse. 43:581-583.

2008 Ciccarone, Dan, Sharad Jain, and Philippe Bourgois. "Understanding Illicit Substance Use in the Real World." Medical Education. 42:532.

2007 Bourgois, Philippe and Jeff Schonberg. Intimate apartheid: ethnic dimensions of habitus among homeless heroin injectors.  Ethnography. 8:1:7-32.

2006 Bourgois, Philippe et. al. Reinterpreting Ethnic Patterns among White and African American Men Who Inject Heroin: A Social Science of Medicine Approach. PLoS Medicine. 3:10:e452

2006 “The Price of Adherence: Qualitative Findings From HIV+ Individuals Purchasing Fixed-Dose Combination Generic HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in Kampala, Uganda.” AIDS and Behavior. (J. T. Crane, A. Kawuma, J. H. Oyugi, J. T. Byakika, A. Moss, P. Bourgois, and D. R. Bangsberg.)

2005 “Missing the Holocaust: My Father's Account of Auschwitz from August 1943 to June 1944.” Anthropological Quarterly 78:1:89-123.

2005 “ ‘You Can't Do Nothing in This Damn Place ': Sex and Intimacy Among Couples With an Incarcerated Male Partner.” The Journal of Sex Research 42:1:3-12. (Multiple authors.)

2005 “Social Structural Production of HIV Among Injection Drug Users .” Social Science & Medicine 61:5:1026-1044 . (Third author with Tim Rhodes, Merrill Singer, Samuel Friedman, Steffanie Strathdee).

2004 “Everyday Violence and the Gender of Hepatitis C Among Homeless Drug-Injecting Youth in San Francisco .” Human Organization . 63:3:253-264. (Multiple authors.)

2004 “Masculinity and Undocumented Labor Migration: Injured Latino Day Laborers in San Francisco .” Social Science and Medicine . 59:6:1159-1168. (Multiple authors.)

2003 “One Hundred Years of United Fruit Company Letters.” In Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas.  Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, eds.  Pp. 103-144.  Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

2003 “Explaining the Geographic Variation of HIV among Injection Drug Users in the United States .” Substance Use and Misuse . 38:14:2049-2063 (Co-authored.)

2003 “Crack and the Political Economy of Social Suffering.” Addiction Research and Theory . 11:1:31-37.

2002 “El poder de la violencia en la Guerra y en la paz: lecciones pos-Guerra Fría de El Salvador .” Apuntes de Investigación del CECYP 8:73-98, 2002.

2002 “Ethnography’s Troubles and the Reproduction of Academic Habitus. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 15:4:417-420.

2002 “Understanding Inner City Poverty: Resistance and Self-Destruction Under U.S. Apartheid.” In Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines, Jeremy MacClancy, ed. Pp. 15-32. Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

2002 “The Politics of Photographic Aesthetics: Confronting the HIV Epidemic among Heroin Injectors in Russia .” International Journal of Drug Policy . 13:387-392. (Co-authored .)

2002 “Cross-Methodological and Theoretical Dialogue: Anthropology and Epidemiology on Drugs.” International Journal of Drug Policy . 13:259-269.

2002 “The Violence of Moral Binaries: Response to Leigh Binford.” Ethnography . 3:2:221.

2002 "Social Context of Work Injury among Undocumented Day Laborers in San Francisco " Journal of General Internal Medicine . 17:221-229. (Multiple authors.)

2002 “Hepatitis C Virus Seroconversion Among Young Injection Drug Users: Relationships and Risks.” Journal of Infectious Diseases. 186:11:1558-64. (Multiple authors)

2001 "Being a Public Anthropologist: An Interview with Philippe Bourgois." Public Anthropology. By Eric Haanstad.

2001 “The Power of Violence in War and Peace: Post-Cold War Lessons from El Salvador ”. Ethnography 2:1:5-34.

2001 “Soft Tissue Infections Among Injection Drug Users—San Francisco, California, 1996-2000.” MMWR Weekly. 50:381-384. (multiple authors)

2001 “Buprenorphine: ‘Field Trials' of a New Drug.” Qualitative Health Research 11:1:69-84. (Multiple authors).

2001  “Culture of Poverty.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Smelser, NJ and Paul B. Baltes, eds.  Pp. 11904-11907. Oxford: Pergamon. 

2000 “Disciplining Addictions: The Bio-politics of Methadone and Heroin in the United States .” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 24:2:165-195.

1998 “The Moral Economies of Homeless Heroin Addicts: Confronting Ethnography, HIV Risk and Everyday Violence in San Francisco Shooting Encampments.” Substance Use and Misuse 33:11:2323-2351.

1998 “Just Another Night in a Shooting Gallery.” Theory, Culture and Society 15:2:37-66.

1997 "Overachievement in the Underground Economy: The Life Story of a Puerto Rican Stick up Artist in East Harlem." Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology. 25:23-32.

1997 “Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse: Confronting HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Addicts in San Francisco .” Social Problems . 44:2:155-173. (Multiple authors.)

1996 “Confronting Anthropology, Education, and Inner-City Apartheid. ” American Anthropologist 98:2:249-258.

1995 “Hope To Die a Dope Fiend.” Cultural Anthropology . 10:4:587-593. (Co-authored.)

1995 “Workaday World, Crack Economy.” The Nation (December 4) pp. 706-11.

1990 “Confronting Anthropological Ethics: Lessons From Central America .” International Journal of Peace Research 27:1:43-54.

1989 “Crack in Spanish Harlem: Culture and Economy in the Inner City.” Anthropology Today 5:4:6-11.

1989 “Introduction: Black and White in Color.” City and Society 3:2: 101-105. (Co-authored.)

1988 “Conjugated Oppression: Class and Ethnicity Among Kuna and Guaymi Banana Workers on a Corporate Plantation .” American Ethnologist 15:2:328-348.

1987 “The Miskitu Conflict on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua .” IWGIA Newsletter 49:69-87.

1986 “The Miskitu of Nicaragua: Politicized Ethnicity.” Anthropology Today 2:2:4-9.

1982    “What U.S. Foreign Policy Faces in Rural El Salvador.” Monthly Review 34:14-30.

1982 “Running for My Life in El Salvador: An American Caught in a Government Attack that Chiefly Killed Civilians.” The Washington Post February 14. pp. C1,C5.

1981 “Class, Ethnicity and the State Among the Miskitu Amerindians of Northeastern Nicaragua .” Latin American Perspectives 8:2:22-39.

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2009 Treinta años de retrospectiva etnográfica sobre la violencia en las Américas . Julián López García, Santiago Bastos, Manuela Camus, eds. Guatemala: Violencias Desbordadas. 29-62. Cordoba, Spain: Universidad de Cordoba, Servicio de Publicaciones. 2009.

2006 "Política y estética fotográfica: una documentación crítica de la epidemia de VIH entre inyectores de heroína en Rusia y los Estados Unidos”. (Traducción de X Andrade y Fernando Montero Castrillo)

1993 Introducción y Aspectos Metodológicos . Franklin Alcaraz del Castillo, Nilda Flores Salinas, Eunice Zambrana Villarroel, Philippe Bourgois. Niños Vulnerables. 15-20. Ministerio de Prevision Social y Salud Publica. 1993.

“Crack-cocaína y economía política del sufrimiento social en Norteamérica.” Monografias Humanitas 5:95-103.

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2005 “Un ‘apartheid intime’: Dimensions ethniques de l’habitus chez les toxicomanes sans-abri de San Francisco . " Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 160:32-45 . (Co-authored).

2002 "La Violence en temps de guerre et en temps de paix: Leçons de l'après-guerre froide: l'exemple du Salvador.” Cultures & Conflits 47:81-116.