Publications

 

Books


1999     Japanese Science:  From the Inside.  Foreword by Arthur Kornberg, Nobel Laureate.  London:  Routledge.

http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=0415201691&parent_id=&pc=



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.

http://www2.bun-ichi.co.jp/bunichi_html/list/FMPro?-db=bunichi_list.fp5&-format=list02.html&-recid=33581&-find=



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