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Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology in Arts and Sciences
- Associate Professor, Anthropology (http://news-info.wustl.edu/group/page/normal/12.html)
- Associate Professor, Medicine (http://mednews.wustl.edu/group/page/normal/72.html)
- Associate Professor, Infectious Disease (http://mednews.wustl.edu/group/page/normal/163.html)
Expertise: anthropology, public health, medicine, sexually transmitted diseases, biomedicine, medical anthropology, anthropology of public health, STD, AIDS, Peru, urban North Africa
Bio: Dr. Stoner, who joined the Infectious Disease division in 1995, holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences. He studied anthropology at Harvard University and McGill University, and received the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University. He completed residency training in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center, and postdoctoral fellowship training in infectious diseases at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research focuses on the clinical epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases and sociocultural factors which influence infectious disease risk in human populations. He also serves as chief of STD Services for the St. Louis County Department of Health and is medical director of the St. Louis STD/HIV Prevention Training Center (http://std.wustl.edu/) . He is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.
WUSTL Contact Information:
| Work: | (314) 935-5673 |
| Fax: | (314) 935-8535 |
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| E-mail: | bstoner@wustl.edu |
| Address: | Campus Box 1114
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
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Education:
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Ph.D. in Indiana University
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M.D. in Indiana University
Additional Background: Stoner's research addresses issues at the interface of anthropology, public health and medicine. He is particularly concerned with the analysis of political and economic underpinnings of health and illness in cross-cultural perspective. Most recently his work has focused on social and behavioral aspects of sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Other areas of interest include the study of health care access and decisionmaking, biomedicine as a cultural system, alternative/heterodox medical systems, culture-bound syndromes and the role of anthropology in clinical and public health research. He has conducted field research in Peru and in urban North America.
Stoner is currently conducting research on sociocultural aspects of sexually transmitted disease control in developed countries, including analysis of sex partner networks, perception of symptoms and health-seeking responses, concordance and discordance in sexual partnerships and the ethnography of community risk. He works with colleagues in medicine and public health using ethnographic approaches to specific issues in STD/HIV transmission. They have discovered that choice of sex partners within STD networks is not a random occurrence, but rather a highly patterned phenomenon which varies by disease. This work draws from advances in epidemiology and mathematical modeling, as well as medical anthropology.
Courses
Anthropology and Public Health, Medicine and Anthropology, Political Economy of Health
Selected Publications
Stoner, B.P
1985 Formal modeling of health care decisions: some applications and limitations. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 16:41-46.
1986 Understanding medical systems: traditional, modern, and syncretic health care alternatives in medically pluralistic societies. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17:44-48. (W.H.R. Rivers Prize Paper)
Garnett, G.P., J.P. Hughes, R.M. Anderson, B.P. Stoner, S.O. Aral, W.L. Whittington, H.H. Handsfield, K.K. Holmes
1996 Sexual mixing patterns of patients attending sexually transmitted disease clinics. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 23:248-257.
(with Aral SO, Hughes JP, et al.)
1999 Sexual mixing patterns including linking and bridge populations, in spread of gonococcal and chlamydial infections. American Journal of Public Health 89:825-833.
(with Whittington WL, Hughes JP, et al.)
2000 Comparative epidemiology of heterosexual gonococcal and chlamydial networks: implications for transmission patterns. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 27: 215-223.
(with Todd CS, Haase C)
2000 Urine-based ligase chain reaction (LCR) screening for asymptomatic gonococcal and chlamydial genital tract infection in an emergency department population. American Journal of Public Health 91: 461-464.
(with Fortenberry JD, McFarlane MM et al.)
2001 Relation of health literacy to gonorrhoea related care. Sexually Transmitted Infections 77: 206-211.
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