Books and Other Writings
Christakis's first book, Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1999.
Along with James Fowler, Christakis is the author of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, published in September 2009. It was awarded the "Books for a Better Life" Award in 2010 and has been translated into nearly 20 languages. Connected draws on previously published and unpublished studies and makes several new conclusions about the influence of social networks on human health and behavior. In Connected, Christakis and Fowler put forward their "three degrees of influence" rule about human behavior, which theorizes that each person's individual social influence can stretch roughly three degrees before it fades out.
Christakis has also edited two clinical textbooks published by Oxford University Press.
Christakis also contributes to popular media. He is a contributor to Edge, and recently argued there that the 21st century will see a new kind of social science. He has published opinion pieces with and without his wife, Erika Christakis, in venues such as Time, the Financial Times, the New York Times, etc., about science and the policy implications of new scientific understandings.
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