Publications
Publications
Books
1999 Japanese Science: From the Inside. Foreword by Arthur Kornberg, Nobel Laureate. London: Routledge.
1992 Family Planning in Japanese Society: Traditional Birth Control in a Modern Urban Culture. Unrevised 2nd Edition, with new Foreword by Patricia Steinhoff. Princeton University Press (First edition 1983).
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/342.html
Book in Japanese
2002 Kenshoo: Naze Nihon no Kagakusha wa Mukuwarenai no ka? [An Investigation: Why Aren’t Japanese Scientists Rewarded?] Translation, with Yoko Iwatate, of Japanese Science: From the Inside. Tokyo: Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppansha.
Refereed Journal Articles
2011 Addressing the Puzzle of Race. Social Work Education, 43 (1): in press.
2009 Teaching Culture in Japanese Language Programs at the University Level: Insights from the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Japanese Language and Literature, 43: 319-333.
1996 Obstacles and Opportunities in Access to Professional Work Organizations for Long-Term Fieldwork: The Case of Japanese Laboratories. Human Organization 55 (3):334-43.
1995 Industry-University Cooperation at Japan's Protein Engineering Research Institute: A Study Based on Long-Term Fieldwork. Human Organization 54 (1):20-30.
1990 Riken from 1945 to 1948: The Reorganization of Japan's Physical and Chemical Research Institute under the American Occupation. Technology and Culture 31 (2):228-250.
1981 The Cultural Context of Condom Use in Japan. Studies in Family Planning 12 (1):28-39. [Also translated into Japanese by Takashi Wagatsuma, M.D., as an information booklet published and distributed by the Japan Family Planning Association.]
Refereed Journal Article in Japanese
1990 Kagaku wo Taishou to suru Bunka Jinruigakuteki Apurouchi [Anthropology in the Social Study of Science]. Kenkyuu Gijutsu Keikaku/Journal of Science Policy and Research Management (Special Edition on Science, Technology and Human Creativity), 5 (2):204-209.
Refereed Journal Articles—co-authored
1986 Applied Japanese Studies for Science and Engineering at American Universities. Richard J. Samuels and Samuel Coleman. Engineering Education 76 (4):206-210. Also published in Getting America Ready for Japanese Science and Technology, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars / MIT-Japan Science and Technology Program, Washington, DC (February 1985). Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
1981 A Cross-National Comparison of the Relative Influence of Male and Female Age on the Frequency of Marital Intercourse. Richard J, Udry, Fred R. Deven. and Samuel Coleman. Journal of Biosocial Science 14:1-6.
Book Chapters
2006 Getting Cooperation in Policy-Oriented Research, in Doing Fieldwork in Japan, Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, & Victoria Lyon Bestor, Eds. (pp. 109-123). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
1983 The Tempo of Family Formation. in Work and Lifecourse in Japan, David Plath, Editor (pp. 183-214). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Book Chapter—co-authored
2002 The Creation of Japanese and U.S. Elementary Science Textbooks: Different Processes, Different Outcomes. Catherine C. Lewis, Ineko Tsuchida, and Samuel Coleman. in National Standards and School Reform in Japan and the United States, Gary DeCoker, Ed. (pp. 46-66). New York: Teacher's University Press.
Reports—co-authored
1979 Spermicides: Simplicity and Safety Are Major Assets. Samuel Coleman and Phyllis T. Piotrow. Population Reports, Johns Hopkins University Population Information Program, Series H-5 (September).
1979 Tobacco: Hazards to Health and Human Reproduction. Samuel Coleman, Phyllis Piotrow, and Ward Rinehart. Population Reports, Johns Hopkins University Population Information Program, Series L-1 (March).
Papers in Conference Proceedings
1995 Corporate Management of Basic Research: Japanese Bioscience from an Anthropologist's Perspective. Association for Japanese Business Studies Best Papers 1995.
1994 What Students Want to Know about Japan, [and] Trends in Research Cooperation: Long-term Fieldwork. The Kyoto Conference on Japanese Studies. Kyoto: The International Research Center for Japanese Studies (October).
1985 Programs in Applied Japanese Studies: The North Carolina Japan Center and Its University/Industry Connections. In Transforming Scientific Ideas into Innovations. Third United States-Japan Science Policy Seminar, Honolulu, HI (February 1984). Tokyo: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Book Reviews
2008 Caregiving Research Moves Forward. Review of Family Caregivers on the Job: Moving beyond ADLs and IADLs. Carole Levine, Editor. United Hospital Fund of New York, 2004. Care Management Journals 9 (1): 99-100.
1993 Review: Japanese/American Technological Innovation: The Influence of Cultural Differences on Japanese and American Innovation in Advanced Materials, D. W. Kingery, ed. (New York: Elsevier, 1991). American Anthropologist, 95 (1):169-70.
1988 Review: Images of Japanese Society: A Study in the Structure of Social Reality, by R. Mouer and Y. Sugimoto. Pacific Affairs 61 (2):345-347.
Magazine Article in Japanese
1992 Nihon no Saiensu ni Dokujisei wa Aru no ka? [Does Japanese Science Have Originality?] Kagaku Asahi 52 (1):113-118.
Conference Proceedings, Congressional Testimony, and Invited Contributions
2009 An Anthropologist Looks Back—And Looks Forward. Osaka Bioscience Institute 20th Anniversary Commemorative Publication. Osaka: OBI.
2001 What’s Wrong with Japanese Basic Science? JPRI Working Paper No. 74. Japan Policy Research Institute.
1988 The North Carolina Japan Center's Efforts to Expand United States-Japan Scientific Cooperation. Working Papers, Lehigh University Technology Studies Resource Center, Vol. 6.
1988 Japan and North Carolina State University. Occasional Papers of the North Carolina Japan Center, No. 2 (November). Reprinted in Congressional Testimony, The Availability of Japanese Scientific and Technical Information in the United States. Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, 1984 (March 7).
1982 Tobacco and Reproductive Health: Practices and Implications in Traditional and Modern Societies. In Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children. Background Papers to the WHO Seminar, T. Baasher et al., eds., WHO/EMRO Technical Publications 2 (2):114-124.
1980 Marriage and Childbirth Patterns in Present-Day Japanese Society. Carolina Population Center Papers, No. 12 (September).
Encyclopedia Entry, co-authored
1982 Population. D. Eleanor Westney and Samuel Coleman. Major entry, Encyclopedia of Japan, Kodansha Publisher.
Editorial Essays in Newsletters
2009 Social Work Wisdom and Action after the President’s First 100 Days. NASW California News 35 (9): 14 (June).
2009 Rethinking AARP as an ‘Advocate’, NASW California News, 35 (6): p. 14 (March). Expanded version, Is AARP Really an Advocate? NASW California Social Action / Social Justice Council web page,
http://www.socialactioncouncil.org/sasj/content/view/15/15/
Posted February 10.
2008 Must Reading: Good Paying Jobs for Americans Who Help Americans. NASW California News, 34 (10): 1, p.7 (July/August).
2008 Rolling up Our Sleeves: Response to Dr. Kelly.
NASW California Social Action / Social Justice Council web page,
http://www.socialactioncouncil.org/sasj/content/view/14/1/
Posted October 18.
2007 What’s Really Ailing Our Veterans? Where We Can Start Looking.
NASW California News, 33 (4): 1, 20 (January). Expanded version posted on the NASW California Social Action / Social Justice Council web page, November.
http://www.socialactioncouncil.org/sasj/content/view/13/27/
2005 Who Owns Morality? NASW California News, 31 (4): 6,7 (January).
2005 American Militarism And the Social Work Imagination. BCR Reports (Social Welfare Action Alliance) 17 (1): 10, 15 (November).
http://www.socialwelfareactionalliance.org/newsletter_0511.pdf
1984 Opinion: Responding to Japan's High Technology Challenge. Japan Economic Survey 8 (5):15 (May).
Editorial Essays in Newsletters, in Japanese
1996 Kiso Seimeikakagaku Kenkyuu Suishin ni okeru Jinzai Mondai [Personnel Ability Issues in the Encouragement of Basic Bioscience Research]. Seisaku-ken Nyuusu (NISTEP News) No. 96 (Sept.). Tokyo: National Institute of Science and Technology Policy.
1979 Population Problems in Egypt and Sudan. Jinkoo Nyuusureeta (Population Newsletter), (5) 5:2.
Web Postings (exclusively)
2008 Michael Moore’s Off-Color Draft Joke. Antiwar.com (November 17).
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/coleman.php?articleid=13772
2007 Interview with Dr. Judith Broder [Founder, the Soldiers’ Project]. NASW California Social Action Social Justice Council web page (October 26).
http://www.socialactioncouncil.org/sasj/content/view/12/27/
2007 Social Workers and Unions: A Short Annotated Bibliography. NASW California Social Action Social Justice Council web page (September 25).
http://www.socialactioncouncil.org/sasj/content/blogcategory/10/18/
Wikipedia Contribution
2008 Anthropology / Marvin Harris / theory. Expansion and revision of Wikipedia entry, since revised by others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Harris#Theoretical_contributions