Merrill Singer

Just published:

Introducing Health Anthropology: A Discipline in Action
By Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer, Debbi Long, Alex Pavlotski

Debating Measles Vaccination in a World of Infectious Diseases Merrill Singer

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Introducing Health Anthropology
A Discipline in Action, 4 edition, 2025

Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer, Debbi Long, Alex Pavlotski

Rowman & Littlefield/Bloomsbury
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Urgent Care Medical Historians and Anthropologists Respond to Assaults on Public Health

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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.

and families across the country ....

Lance, airline pilot, anthropology did not make you sore, I mean soar.....

Restrain the self-destructive excesses of capitalism? Can you remove the engine and still drive the car? Capitalism by nature is excessive.

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 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...

Teaching Syndemics, a new publication (2024)

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Yeah, we’re all still unpacking and settling in….

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...

New book on climate change (2024)

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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...

New book (2024):

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not a pleasant thought with the potential new head of the Department of Health and Human Services, the prince of vaccine disinformation.

New publication:

Merrill Singer. Is Pollution the Primary Driver of Infectious Syndemics? Pathogens 13(7), 370. doi.org/10.3390/path..., 2024.

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...

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

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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

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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....

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