Academic Publications

Book Chapters

1.   Helman, C.G. (1982) Prevailing Beliefs and Attitudes of British Patients in General Practice: Some Examples and their Clinical Implications.
In: Folk Medicine and Health Culture: Role of Folk Medicine in Modern Health care, (T.Vaskilampi & C.P. MacCormack, Eds.), Kuopio, Finland: University of Kuopio Publications, 143‑163.

2.   Helman, C.G. (1984) Disease and Pseudo‑Disease: A Case History of Pseudo‑Angina.
In: Physicians of Western Medicine: Anthropological Perspectives on Theory and Practice, (R.A.Hahn & A.D. Gaines, Eds.), Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 293‑331.

3.   Helman, C.G. (1990) Cultural Factors in Health and Illness.
In: Health Care for Asians, (B.McAvoy and L. Donaldson, Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 17‑27.

4.   Helman, C.G. (1991) Research in Primary Care: The Qualitative Approach.
In: Primary Care Research, (P.R. Norton et al, Eds.), Newbury Park and London: Sage Publications, 105‑124.

5.   Helman, C.G. (1995) Antropologia Medica e Atençao Primaria a Saúde (Portuguese).
In: Medicina Ambulatorial. Condutas Clinicas em Atencao Primaria. (B.B. Duncan, M.I. Schmidt, and E. Guigliani, Eds.). Porto Alegre, Brazil: Artes Medicas Sul Ltda, pp. 43‑46.

6. Helman, C.G. (1995) The Body Image in Health and Disease: Exploring patients' maps of body and self.
In: New Trends in Patient Education. (Assal, J.P., Golay, A. and Visser. A.P., Eds.). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 169‑175.

7. Helman, C.G. (2001) Traditional Medicine.
In: Reader's Guide to the History of Science, (Hessenbruch, A, Ed.). London & Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 729-731.

8. Helman, C.G. (2001) Placebos and nocebos: the cultural construction of belief.
In: Understanding the Placebo Effect in Complementary Medicine. (Peters, D., Ed.), Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 3-16.

9. Helman, C.G. (2003) Natural History: Changing Folk Perceptions of Health and Disease.
In: Boon, T. & Jones, I. (eds.) Treat Yourself: Health Consumers in a Medical Age. London: Science Museum, 9-11.

10. Helman, C.G. (2003) Traditional approaches to health and healing.
In: Health, Culture and Delivering Care: Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference of the Transcultural Nursing & Healthcare Association, & Foundation for Nursing Studied, March 2003.: Birmingham: Faculty of Health & Community Care, University of Central England in Birmingham, pp. 7-8.

11. Helman, C.G. (2005) Cultural Competence in Family Medicine.
In: Bisconcin, M., Maso, G. & Mathers, N. (eds.) European Textbook of Family Medicine. Milan: Passoni Editore, pp. 41-47.

12. Helman, C.G. (2006) Anthropology and its Contributions.
In: Bhui, K. & Bhugra, D. (eds.) (2007) Culture and Mental Health: A Comprehensive Textbook. London: Hodder Arnold, pp. 11-15.

Papers

1. Helman, C.G. (1978) 'Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever': Folk Models of Infection in an English Suburban Community, and their Relation to Medical Treatment, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2, 107‑137.

2. Helman, C.G. (1981) Patients' Perceptions of Psychotropic Drugs, Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 31, 107‑112.

3. Helman, C.G. (1981) General Practitioner as Social Anthropologist, British Medical Journal, 282, 787‑788.

4. Helman, C.G. (1981) 'Tonic', 'Fuel' and 'Food': Social and Symbolic Aspects of the Long‑Term Use of Psychotropic Drugs, Social Science and Medicine, 15B, 521‑533.

5. Helman, C.G. (1981) Disease versus Illness in General Practice, Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 31, 548‑552.

6. Helman, C.G. (1981) 'Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever': The Folklore of 'Flu, New Society, 58, No. 990, 223‑225.

7. Helman, C.G. (1981) The Hidden Treatment Beyond the Surgery, PULSE, No. 14, 16.

8. Helman, C.G. (1981) Observations from General Practice, Social Science and Medicine,1981,15B, 415‑419. Special issue on 'Classification and Causality in African Medicine and Health'.

9. Helman, C.G. (1984) Culture and Primary Care, Update, 28, 845‑851.

10. Helman, C.G. (1984) The Role of Context in Primary Care, Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 34, 547‑550.

11. Helman, C.G. (1985) Psyche, Soma and Society: The Social Construction of Psychosomatic Disorders, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 9, 1‑26.

12. Helman, C.G. (1985) Communication in Primary Care: The Role of Patient and Practitioner Explanatory Models, Social Science and Medicine, 20, 923‑931.

13. Helman, C.G. (1985) Anthropology and Clinical Practice, Anthropology Today, 1, No. 4, 7‑10.

14. Helman, C.G. (1986) The Consultation in Context, Holistic Medicine, 1, No. 1, 37‑41.

15. Helman, C.G. (1987) Heart Disease and the Cultural Construction of Time: The Type A Behaviour Pattern as a Western Culture‑Bound Syndrome, Social Science and Medicine, 25, 969‑979.

16. Helman, C.G. (1987) General Practice and the Hidden Health Care System (1987 Albert Wander Lecture), Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 80, 738‑740.

17. Helman, C.G. (1988) Dr Frankenstein and the Industrial Body: Reflections on 'Spare Part' Surgery. Anthropology Today, 4, No. 3, 14‑16.

18. Helman, C.G. (1991) Limits of Biomedical Explanation, The Lancet, 337, 1079‑1083.

19. Helman, C.G. (1991) The Family Culture: A Useful Concept for Family Medicine, Family Medicine, 23, 376‑381.

20. Helman, C.G. (1992) Complementary Medicine in Context, Medical World, 09, 11‑12.

21. Helman, C.G. (1995) The Body Image in Health and Disease: Exploring Patients' Maps `of Body and Self, Patient Education and Counselling, 6, 169‑175, 1995. (Proceedings of W.H.O. international conference on 'Patient Education 2000').

22. Helman, C.G. (1997) The Application of Anthropological Methods in General Practice Research, Family Practice, 13, Suppl. 1, 5S13-S16.

23. Helman, C.G. (1997) The Role of Culture in Medical Education, Changing Medical Education and Medical Practice (World Health Organization), No. 11, pp. 24-25, July 1997.

24. Greenhalgh T, Helman C, Chowdhury A M. (1998) Health beliefs and folk models of diabetes in British Bangladeshis: a qualitative study British Medical Journal 316, 978-983.

25. Helman, C.G. (1998) Aid Culture: Putting Problems in Context, The Health Exchange, 4-5, Dec 1998.

26. Helman, C.G. (2000) Dr Chameleon, British Journal of General Practice 50, 524.

27. Chowdhury, A.M., Helman, C. & Greenhalgh, T. (2000) Food beliefs and practices among British Bangladeshis with diabetes: implications for health education, Anthropology and Medicine 7, No. 2, 209-226.

28. Helman, C.G. (2001) Commentary: Health beliefs about diabetes: patients versus doctors, Western Journal of Medicine,175, No. 5, 312-313.

29. Helman, C.G. (2002) Editorial: The Culture of General Practice, British Journal of General Practice 52, 619-620.

30. Helman, C. (2003) Two Stories, Medical Humanities 29 (1), 50-51.

31, Helman, C. (2003) Physician Writers: Cecil Helman, The Lancet 361, (9376), 2252.

32. Helman, C.G. (2004) Possession: On Being a Doctor, Annals of Internal Medicine 140, 229-230.

33. Johnson, G. & Helman, C. (2004) Remedy or cure? Lay beliefs about over-the-counter medicines for coughs and colds, British Journal of General Practice 54, 98-102.

34. Helman, C.G. & Yogeswaran, P. (2004) Perceptions of childhood immunizations in rural Transkei: a qualitative study, South African Medical Journal 94, No. 2, 835-838.

35. Helman, C.G. (2005) Cultural aspects of time and ageing, EMBO Reports (European Molecular Biology Organization), Vol. 6 (Special Issue), S54-S58.

36. Helman, C.G. (2006) Why medical anthropology matters, Anthropology Today 22 (1), 3-5.