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Adams V.  2002.  Randomized Controlled Crime: Postcolonial Sciences in Alternative Medicine Research. Social Studies of Science. 32(5-6):659-690.

Adams V.  2001.  Particularizing Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizing of Women's Health in Lhasa, Tibet. Healing powers and modernity: traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies.

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Adams V.  1998.  Medical science and democratic truth: doctors and revolution in Nepal.

Adams V.  1998.  Suffering the Winds of Lhasa: Politicized Bodies, Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Humanism in Tibet. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 12(1):74-102.

Adams V.  1997.  Dreams of a final Sherpa. American Anthropologist. 99(1):85.

Adams V.  1996.  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters.

Adams V.  1989.  Healing Buddhas and mountain guides: the production of self within society through medication.

Adams V.  1988.  Modes of Production and Medicine: An Examination of the Theory in Light of Sherpa Medical Traditionalism. Social Science & Medicine. 27(5):505-513.