Merrill Singer: 12 books
Introduction to Syndemics
A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
This book explains the growing field of syndemic theory and research, a framework for the analysis and prevention of disease interactions that addresses underlying social and environmental causes. This perspective complements single-issue prevention strategies, which can be effective for discrete...
by Merrill Singer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework. Leading medical anthropologist Merrill Singer holistically unites the behaviors of microorganisms and the activities of complex social systems, showing how we exist with pathogenic...
The Social Value of Drug Addicts
Uses of the Useless
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless—culturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, this book argues that the social construction of some people as useless is in fact extremely useful to other people. Leading medical anthropologists...
Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health
Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology,...
Climate Change and Social Inequality
The Health and Social Costs of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is toward...
Social Justice and Medical Practice
Life History of a Physician of Social Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
How do we understand and respond to the pressing health problems of modern society? Conventional practice focuses on the assessment and clinical treatment of immediate health issues presented by individual patients. In contrast, social medicine advocates an equal focus on the assessment and social...
Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, 3rd Edition
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, Third Edition includes updated and expanded information on medical anthropology, resulting in an even more comprehensive resource for undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers worldwide.
As in the previous versions...
Stigma Syndemics
New Directions in Biosocial Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for examining and addressing pathways of interaction between...
The Anthropology of Climate Change
An Integrated Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change, reviews the historic...
by Merrill Singer
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Features a collection of seven research-based articles on AIDS. This work seeks to cut through popular misunderstanding and conventional ideas about the spread and impact of AIDS by employing a political economic perspective in the analysis of the epidemic in diverse settings.
Foundations of Biosocial Health
Stigma and Illness Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The authors delineate multiple examples...
New Drugs on the Street
Changing Inner City Patterns of Illicit Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Learn the public health implications of shifting drug-related risks among the inner city poor
Inner city drug use behavior shifts and changes, leaving past drug treatment programs, drug prevention efforts, health care provisions for drug users, and social service practice unprepared to effectively...