Just published: Introducing Health Anthropology: A Discipline in Action By Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer, Debbi Long, Alex Pavlotski
Merrill Singer
@merrillsinger.bsky.social
Anthropologist, University of Connecticut, Emeritus
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New Publication: Merrill Singer. Debating Measles Vaccination in a World of Infectious Diseases. Urgent Care: Medical Historians and Anthropologists Respond to Attacks on Public Health. (Substack). jackiewolf1.substack.com/p/debating-m..., 2025.
My new book will be out in Spring: It examines ecosyndemics through the lens of Planetary Health:
The massive LA fires unleashed considerable political finger pointing over who is responsible for the conflagration. A new analysis by a team of climate scientists at UCLA, however, indicates that human-caused climate change was a primary driver of the fires becoming so intense.
I have received a contract from SpringerNature for a new book: Syndemics: An Anthropological Approach to Biosocial Health. The book is a detailed and up-to-date overview of syndemics research globally. Ideas about particular issues you would like to see covered are welcome.
Teaching Syndemics, a new publication (2024) teachinganthropology.org/teaching-syn...
Teaching Syndemics
Merrill Singer, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. A pivotal moment occurred when Richard Horton, Ed...
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New book on climate change (2024) www.google.com/books/editio...
Building the Critical Anthropology of Climate Change
This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis.The book focuses on the critical anthropology of climate change by opening up a dialogue...
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COVID-19 Syndemics and the Global South
This book focuses on syndemics in the Global South and uses COVID‐19 as a window to understand clusters of disparities and disease comorbidities. The pandemic has exposed and multiplied structural ine...
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New publication: Merrill Singer. Is Pollution the Primary Driver of Infectious Syndemics? Pathogens 13(7), 370. doi.org/10.3390/path..., 2024.
Syndemics among SouthAfrican Mine Workers Discover Social Science and Health Volume 4, article number 36 The occupational syndemics of miners in South Africa Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer 2024 doi.org/10.1007/s441...
The occupational syndemics of miners in South Africa - Discover Social Science and Health
Occupational exposures in the large industrial mining sector contributed significantly to South Africa’s high excess death rate due to COVID-19. Historically poor work-protection oversight has perpetu...
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Newly published syndemics article: Fish and Fisheries Syndemics of the sea: Adverse disease interactions and the stressors of fisher livelihoods Merrill Singer doi.org/10.1111/faf....
Newly published: Merrill Singer. The Biosocial Health of U.S. Long Haul Truckers: Syndemics of the Road. Journal of Transportation & Health, 40:101939, 2024. doi.org/10.1016/j.jt....
