Sherman James

{{Short description|American epidemiologist}}Sherman A. James is an American epidemiologist. He is the Susan B. King Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, and previously taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1973 to 1989 and at the University of Michigan as the John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health from 1989 to 2003. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2000.{{Cite web |url=http://news-archive.wustl.edu/news/Pages/29133.aspx |title=Sherman James to deliver MLK Jr. lecture at medical school |date=January 13, 2016 |publisher=wustl.edu |accessdate=November 18, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=http://sph.unc.edu/mhp/sherman-a-james-phd/ |title=Sherman A. James |publisher=unc.edu |accessdate=November 18, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.aspph.org/event/south-carolina-lecture-features-social-epidemiologist-sherman-a-james/ |title=Events Series- Lecture |publisher=aspph.org |accessdate=November 18, 2017}}

James received an A.B. degree (psychology and philosophy) from Talladega College in 1964{{cite web |title=Sherman James Ph.D. |url=http://www.healthandsocietyscholars.org/1492/1562/433929 |accessdate=4 September 2019}} and a Ph.D. in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1973.{{Cite web |url=https://sanford.duke.edu/people/faculty/james-sherman |title=Sherman James |publisher=duke.edu |accessdate=November 18, 2017}}

James' research focused on social determinants of health in the US, racial disparities in health and healthcare, and the health effects of structural racism. {{Cite web |last=Policy |first=Sanford School of Public |title=Sherman A. James {{!}} Sanford School of Public Policy |url=https://sanford.duke.edu/profile/sherman-james/ |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=sanford.duke.edu |language=en}} He is known for conceiving the term John Henryism in the 1970s.{{Cite book |last=Steele |first=Claude M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34LFOUmXzNoC |title=Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (Issues of Our Time) |date=2011-04-04 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-34148-5 |language=en}}

Selected publications

Johnson-Lawrence Vicki, Scott Jamie B, James Sherman A. (August 2019). "Education, Perceived Discrimination and Risk for Depression in a Southern Black Cohort." Aging & Mental Health." doi: 10.1080/13607863.2019.1647131.
{{cite journal|last1=Kramer|first1=Michael R.|last2=Black|first2=Nyesha C.|last3=Matthews|first3=Stephen A.|last4=James|first4=Sherman A.|title=The legacy of slavery and contemporary declines in heart disease mortality in the U.S. South|journal=SSM - Population Health|date=December 2017|volume=3|pages=609–617|doi=10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.07.004|pmid=29226214|pmc=5718368}}
{{cite journal|last1=James|first1=Sherman A.|title=Invited Commentary: Cassel's "The Contribution of the Social Environment to Host Resistance"—A Modern Classic|journal=American Journal of Epidemiology|date=1 June 2017|volume=185|issue=11|pages=1032–1034|doi=10.1093/aje/kwx070|pmid=28535254|doi-access=free|hdl=10161/15173|hdl-access=free}}
{{cite journal|last1=Barrington|first1=Debbie S.|last2=James|first2=Sherman A.|title=Receipt of public assistance during childhood and hypertension risk in adulthood|journal=Annals of Epidemiology|date=February 2017|volume=27|issue=2|pages=108–114.e2|doi=10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.11.012|pmid=28094118|pmc=5334660}}
{{cite journal|last1=Mujahid|first1=Mahasin S.|last2=James|first2=Sherman A.|last3=Kaplan|first3=George A.|last4=Salonen|first4=Jukka T.|title=Socioeconomic position, John Henryism, and incidence of acute myocardial infarction in Finnish men|journal=Social Science & Medicine|date=January 2017|volume=173|pages=54–62|doi=10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.11.034|pmid=27923154 |hdl=10161/15172|hdl-access=free}}
{{cite journal|last1=James|first1=Sherman A.|title=The strangest of all encounters: racial and ethnic discrimination in US health care|journal=Cadernos de Saúde Pública|date=2017|volume=33|issue=suppl 1|pages=e00104416|doi=10.1590/0102-311X00104416|pmid=28492707|doi-access=free|hdl=10161/15176|hdl-access=free}}

References

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