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Articles by Francis X. Hezel, SJ, on a wide variety of social issues and on the history of Micronesia.

Alcohol and Drugs   Alcohol and Drug Use in the Republic of the Marshall Islands 1997 231 KB   Alcohol and Drug Use in the Federated States of Micronesia 1997 308 KB   Youth Drinking in micronesia 1982 60 KB   Economic   Is That the Best You Can Do? A Tale of Two Micronesian Economies 2006 87 KB   An Overview of the FSM Economy 2003 102 KB   Examining the Consequences of the Money Economy in the Pacific 2001 33 KB   Sustainable Human Development in the Federated States of Micronesia 1997 389 KB      with Edwin Q.P. Petteys and Deborah L. Chang   Let's Have the Meal Today Rather Than the Fishing Industry Tomorrow 1987 13 KB   How Much is Enough? US Aid and Free Association 1985 15 KB   A Brief Economic History of Micronesia 1984 102 KB   Yesterday's Myths, Today's Realities 1980 25 KB   The New Formula for Self-Reliance 1979 15 KB   Taking the Long View 1977 19 KB   How to Support Expensive Habits and Still Run the Household 1976 14 KB   Micronesia: Ten Years After 1974 9 KB   Reflections on Micronesia's Economy 1973 27 KB   The Creation of a Colony: The Paradox of Economic Aid to Micronesia 1968 38 KB   Education   Thoughts on Community Colleges in Micronesia 2003 31 KB   Statistics on Education in Micronesia 2000 89 KB   Education for What? 1998 40 KB   The Price of Education in Micronesia 1989 22 KB   Schools in Micronesia Prior to American Administration 1985 45 KB   In the Aftermath of the Education Expolosion 1985 68 KB   The Education Explosion in Chuuk 1978 63 KB   Ghosts of the Past...A Vision of the Future 1977 16 KB   In Search of a Home: Colonial Education in Micronesia 1975 31 KB   Recent Theories of the Relationship between Education and Development 1974 40 KB   Who Shall Own the Schools? 1974 19 KB   The School Industry 1973 12 KB   A Sad Tale of Long Ago: How Magic Signs were Brought to a Far-off Island 1973 13 KB   Family Change   The Cultural Revolution of the 1960s in Micronesia 2008 36 KB   The Unmaking of the Micronesia Family 1998 35.4 KB   Changes in the Pohnpeian Family: 1950-1990 1992 45 KB      with Seberiano Barnabas   The Changing Family in Chuuk: 1950-1990 1992 28 KB      with Innocente Oneisom   Government   Looking Ahead to the End of the Trusteeship, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 1978 46.3 KB   Micrinesia's Education for Self-Government: Frolicking in the Backyard? 1975 26 KB   Health   Disease in Micronesia 2009 210 KB   The Shifting Burden of Illness 2003 116 KB   Health in Micronesia Through the Years 2003 27 KB   WHO Mental Health Research in Micronesia 2002 70 KB   Schizophrenia and Chronic Mental Illness in Micronesia: An Epidemiological Survey 1992 71 KB      with Michael Wylie   In Search of the Social Roots of Mental Pathology in Micronesia 1986 67 KB   Historical   The Man Who Was Reputed to be King: David Dean O'Keefe 2008 103 KB   Chuuk: Caricature of an Island 2003 45 KB   Beachcombers, Traders & Castaways 2000 200 KB   Introduction to Francisco Garcia's Life of Diego Luis San Vitores 1996 36 KB   The Expensive Taste for Modernity: Caroline and Marshall Islands 1992 51 KB   Recolonizing Islands and Decolonizing History 1991 25 KB   New Direction in Pacific History 1988 25 KB   From Conquest to Colonization: Spain in the Marianas 1690-1740 1988 67 KB   Journey of Faith: Blessed Diego of the Marianas 1985 25 KB   From Conversion to Conquest: The Early Spanish Mission in the Marianas 1982 76 KB   In the Wake of Foam and Blood 1979 56 KB   The Role of the Beachcombers in the Caroline Islands 1978 38 KB   Foreign Ships in Micronesia 1978 200 KB   A Yankee Trader in Yap: Crayton Philo Holcomb 1975 65 KB   Dumont d'Urville on Truk 1974 53 KB   The Beginnings of Foreign Contact in Truk 1973 86 KB   First European Visit to Truk 1973 45 KB   Early European Contact with the Western Carolines 1972 70 KB   Westernization of Truk: A Backward Glance 1972 53 KB   Justice and Human Rights   Keeping The Information Flow Open: A Key Condition for Good Government in Micronesia 2006 36 KB   In Search of a Talking Point on Human Rights 1995 13 KB   The Struggle for Justice...But Uner Whose Terms? 1995 40 KB   The Cruel Dilemma: Money Economies in the Pacific 1992 24 KB   Migration   New Trends in Micronesian Migration 1996 78 KB      with Michael Levin   A Second Look at FSM Migration to Guam 1995 37.2 KB   The Great Flight Northward: FSM Migration to Guam 1989 53 KB      with Thomas McGrath   Micronesian Emigration: The Brain Drain in Palau, Marshalls and the Federated States 1986 109 KB      with Michael Levin   Religion   A Life at the Edge of the World 2009 118 KB   Christianity in Micronesia 2008 44 KB   Integration of Catholicism into Guam and its People 2005 33.4 KB   Stepping Stones to Somewhere Else 2001 33.2 KB   German Catholic Missions in Micronesia 2001 37 KB   Micronesian Seminar: 25 Years 1996 35 KB   Congeries of Spirits 1995 47 KB   The Church in Micronesia 1995 45.4 KB   When the Wind Blows, The Islands will Rock 1994 41 KB   Serving the Poor in micronesia: One Approach 1987 46 KB   Historical Sketch of the Caroline-Marshall Mission of the New York Province 1986 42 KB   Jesuit Martyrs in micronesia 1983 43 KB   Indigenization as a Missionary Goal in the Caroline-Marshall Islands 1978 56 KB   Spanish Capuchins in the Carolines 1971 56 KB   Self-Support by Micronesians of Programs and Institutions of the Catholic Church in Micronesia 1971 40 KB   Catholic Missions in the Carolines and Marshall Islands 1970 73 KB   Social Problems   American Anthropology's Contribution to Social Problems Research in Micronesia 1999 138 KB   Distribution of Spirit Possession and Trance in Micronesia 1996 117 KB      with Jay Dobbin   Possession and Trance in Chuuk 1993 86 KB      with Jay Dobbin   Spirit Possession in Chuuk: A Socio-Cultural Interpretation 1992 120 KB   The Effects of Modernization on Three Areas of Island Life 1987 39 KB   The Anthropologist and Social Problems in Micronesia 1978 26 KB   Suicide   Suicide on Guam: Putting it in Historical Perspective 2001 33 KB   What Can We Do to Prevent Suicide? 1989 231 KB   Suicide in the Micronesian Family 1989 83 KB   Truk Suicide Epidemic and Social Change 1986 59 KB   Cultural Patterns in Trukese Sucide 1984 53 KB   Micronesia's Hanging Spree 1976 27 KB