Mark Padilla
Funded Research:
High-Use Alcohol Venues: Tourism, Sex Work and HIV in the Dominican Republic (NIAAA)
Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., Emory University
Dr. Padilla is a medical anthropologist with experience in international health and program evaluation in Latin America. His current focus is on HIV/AIDS prevention among various populations of men who have sex with men.
Recent Publications
Books
Padilla, Mark. 2007. Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Abstract.
Padilla, Mark, Jennifer Hirsch, Robert Sember, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, and Richard Parker (eds). 2007. Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
Journal Articles
Padilla, Mark, Daniel Castellanos, Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Armando Matiz Reyes, Leonardo E. Sánchez Marte, and Martha Arredondo Soriano. 2008. "Stigma, Social Inequality, and HIV Risk Disclosure among Dominican Male Sex Workers." Social Science and Medicine, 67(3): 380-388. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.03.014. Licensed Access.
Padilla, Mark. 2008. "The embodiment of tourism among Bisexually-behaving Dominican Male Tourism Workers." Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37(5): 783-793. DOI:10.1007/s10508-008-9358-5. Licensed Access.
Padilla, Mark. 2007. "‘Western Union Daddies’ and their quest for authenticity: An ethnographic study of the Dominican gay sex tourism industry." Journal of Homosexuality, 53(1/2): 241-275. DOI:10.1300/J082v53n01_11. Licensed Access.
Daftary, A., N. Padayatchi, and Mark Padilla. 2007. "HIV testing and disclosure: a qualitative analysis of TB patients in South Africa." AIDS Care, 19:572-577. DOI:10.1080/09540120701203931. Licensed Access.
Chapters
Padilla, Mark. Forthcoming. "Regional Masculinities, Tourism Labor, and Sexual Risk: Toward a Structural Framework for Reproductive Health Research in the Caribbean." In Globalization, Reproduction, and the State (collection of Bellagio papers) edited by Carolyn Sargent and Carole Browner.
Padilla, Mark. 2008. "The Limits of ‘Heterosexual AIDS’: Ethnographic Research on Tourism and Male Sexual Labor in the Dominican Republic." In Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society, 2nd ed. edited by R. Hahn and M. Inhorn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Padilla, Mark, Vásquez del Aguila Ernesto, and Parker Richard. 2007. "Globalization, Structural Violence, and LGBT health: A Cross-cultural Perspective." In The Health of Sexual Minorities: Public Health Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations edited by Ilan Meyer and Mary Northridge. New York: Springer.
Padilla, Mark. 2007. "Tourism and Tigueraje: The structures of love and silence among Dominican male sex workers." In Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World edited by Mark Padilla et al. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. Abstract.
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