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  • African American Religion

    Varieties of Protest and Accommodation

    by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer ...
    Now in an updated second edition, African American Religion remains an invaluable overview of the great diversity of religious groups within the modern African American community. This plethora of forms reflects a tension that has characterized African American religion since its beginnings—a tension between accommodation to and protest against white society’s domination.Viewing African American ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Health Anthropology

    A Discipline in Action

    by Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer, Debbi Long, Alex Pavlotski ...
    With a new title that reflects the broad scope and primary concerns of the field, Introducing Health Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, Fourth Edition, provides students with a first look at the dynamic discipline of medical and health anthropology.The narrative is guided by four unifying themes. First, health anthropologists are heavily involved in the process of helping to better understand ... Read more

    $43.79 USD

  • Critical Medical Anthropology

    by Merrill Singer, Hans Baer ...
    Series series Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series
    The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power, in shaping health, disease, illness ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Medical Anthropology and the World System

    Critical Perspectives

    by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, Ida Susser ...
    Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural violence. It also examines how the exercise of power in the health arena and in society overall impacts human health and well-being.Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, Third Edition ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson, César E. Abadía-Barrero ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    The fully revised new edition of the defining reference work in the field of medical anthropologyA Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition provides the most complete account of the key issues and debates in this dynamic, rapidly growing field. Bringing together contributions by leading international authorities in medical anthropology, this comprehensive reference work presents critical ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • The Anthropology of Human and Planetary Health

    An Ecosyndemic Approach

    by Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This text introduces undergraduate and graduate students in health or environment-related classes to the mounting crisis of syndemics through the lens of planetary health. The concept of syndemics, developed by the author and now in wide use across multiple health-related disciplines, focuses attention on the adverse synergistic interaction of two or more diseases or other health conditions ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Ecosystem Crises Interactions

    Human Health and the Changing Environment

    by Merrill Singer ...
    Explores the human impacts on environment that lead to serious ecological crises, an innovative resource for students, professionals, and researchers alikeEcosystem Crises Interaction: Human Health and the Changing Environment provides a timely and innovative framework for understanding how negative human activity impacts the environment, and how seemingly disparate factors connect to, and magnify ... Read more

    $111.00 USD

  • Anthropology of Infectious Disease

    by Merrill Singer ...
    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 agents of disease in a complex process of co-evolution. He also connects human diseases to larger ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Social Value of Drug Addicts

    Uses of the Useless

    by Merrill Singer, J Bryan Page ...
    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 Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page analyze media representations, drug policy, and underlying social ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Social Inequality

    The Health and Social Costs of Global Warming

    by Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    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 an ever warmer Earth. However, climate change does not occur in a social vacuum; it reflects ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Social Justice and Medical Practice

    Life History of a Physician of Social Medicine

    by Merrill Singer, Rebecca Allen ...
    Series series Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology
    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 treatment of underlying social conditions, such as environmental factors, structural violence, and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health

    Edited by Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world.Features the latest ethnographic research from around the world related to the multiple impacts of the environment on health and of societies on their ... Read more

    $181.00 USD