Selected Publications

• Gordon, EJ,  Levin, BW.  Contextualizing ethical dilemmas:  Ethnography for bioethics. In: Empirical Methods for Bioethics, L. Jacoby and L.J. Siminoff, eds. Amsterdam: Elsevier.  2008.  Also published as Advances in Bioethics, 2008; 11:83-116.
• Browner, CH, Levin, BW. (Co-Editor – Special Issue) The social production of health: Critical contributions from evolutionary, biological and cultural anthropology. Social Science and Medicine 2005; 61:745-879. 
• Levin BW, Browner, CH. The social production of health: Critical contributions from evolutionary, biological and cultural anthropology. (Introduction) Social Science and Medicine 2005; 61:745-750.
• Levin BW, Fleischman AR. Public health and bioethics – Benefits of collaboration. American Journal of Public Health 2002; 92(2):165-167.
• Fleischman AR, Levin BW, Meekin SA. Bioethics in the urban context. Journal of Urban Health 2001; 78(1):2-6.
• Siegler EL and Levin BW. Physician-older patient communication at the end of life. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine 2000; 16(1):175-204.
• Levin BW and Northridge ME. Why "Public Health Matters". American Journal of Public Health 1999 89:1630-31.
• Levin, BW. Adolescents and medical decision making: Observations of a medical anthropologist. In The Adolescent Alone, J. Bluestein, N. Dubler and C. Levine, (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999:160 -179.
• Levin BW and Schiller NG. Social class and medical decision making: A neglected topic in bioethics. CambridgeQuarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1998; 7:41-56.
• Levin BW. Ethical perspectives. In Beyond the 4th dimension: Assuring quality health care for moms and babies--Proceedings of the scientific summit 1997. Arlington VA: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health.
• Levin BW. Beyond drive-thru deliveries. The Hastings Center Report 1996; 26(5):43.
• Levin BW. Krantz DH and Driscoll JM, Fleischman AR. HIV and decision-making about treatment of non-HIV related conditions: A survey of neonatologists. American Journal of Public Health 1995; 85(11):1507-1513.
• Levin BW. Physician attitudes and decision-making about the withdrawal o f life support (Invited Annotation). American Journal of Public Health 1995; 85(3):306-7.
• Levin BW, Driscoll JM, Fleischman AR. Treatment choice for infants in the NICU at risk for AIDS. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 1991; 265(22):2976-2981.
• Levin BW. International perspectives on decision-making in neonatal intensive care. Social Science and Medicine 1990; 30(8):901-912.

Education

• BA,  Anthropology, Barnard College

• Masters Degree, Anthropology, Columbia University

• PhD, Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University