Books written by Merrill Singer

Comprehending Drug Use: Ethnographic Research at the Social Margins

A final autobiographical work of note focuses on the life history of Manuel Torres. In many ways, Torres's life story is the same as those that have been presented. A gang member from his early teens during the 1950s, he tried heroin ...
Social Value of Drug Addicts: Uses of the Useless

Another autobiographic work ofnote focuses on the life history ofManuel Torres. In most ways, Torres' life story parallels those presented above. A gang member from his early teens during the 1950s, he tried heroin under circumstances ...
Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, and Hidden Populations

Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. Tuma, N. I., 8: Harman, M. T. (1984). Social dynamics: Models and methods. Orlando, FL: Academic Press. Van Sickle, I. (1996). GPSfor land surveyors. Chelsea, MI: Ann Arbor Press. Wood, D. (1992).
Medical Anthropology and the World System

Can Public Policies Limit the Spread of HIV among IV Drug Users ? " Journal of Drug Issues 19 : 113–28 . Cook , Rebecca . 1999. “ Gender , Health and Human Rights . ” In Health and Human Rights , ed . Jonathan Mann , Sofia Gruskin ...
The Social Value of Drug Addicts: Uses of the Useless

“The Normalization of 'Sensible' Recreational Drug Use: Further Evidence from the NorthWest England Longitudinal Study.” Sociology 36(4): 941–964. Parramore, Lynn Stuart. 2012. “Forbes 400 List Reveals Why the Greedy Rich Fully Deserve ...
Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective

New York : Harper and Row . Field , Peter . 1962. A New Cross - Cultural Study of ... Fineberg , H. 1988. The Social Dimensions of AIDS . Scientific American , October . Pp . 128-134 . Firestone , H. 1957. Cats , Kicks , and Color .
African American Religion: Varieties of Protest and Accommodation

Mother Leafy Anderson , a black Spiritualist who was destined to play an instrumental role in the development of the Spiritual religion in New Orleans , established the Eternal Life Christian Spiritualist Church in Chicago in 1913 ...
Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action

Parker, Richard, and Marni Sommer 2011 Introduction. In Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health, ed. Richard Parker and Marni Sommer, 1–8. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. Parkin, David 2013 Medical Crises and Therapeutic Talk.
The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Integrated Critical Perspective

... National Laboratory and several universities, the Pueblo is investigating underground geothermal water resources that could be used to power greenhouse agricultural operations, heating systems, and a commercial spa (Sommer 2011).
Introduction to Syndemics: A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health

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.
Something Dangerous: Emergent and Changing Illicit Drug Use and Community Health

Hall, S. 2002 Teen Abuse of Cold Drug on the Rise. ... Hammersley, R., F. Kahn, and J. Ditton 2002 Ecstasy and the Rise of the Chemical Generation. ... Hayner, G. 2002 MDMA Misrepresentation: An Unresolved Problem for Ecstasy Users.
Drugging the Poor: Legal and Illegal Drugs and Social Inequality

Drugging the Poor actively challenges the assumption that how things are is how they always have been or how they need to be.
The War Machine and Global Health

More important, it provides a political—economic framework for assessing the war machine. In this re— gard, a primary goal ofthis book is to increase understanding ofthe causes of the brutalities that are documented herein, an awareness ...
Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination

This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally.
Anthropology of Infectious Disease

conclusion: health and the coevolution of species This chapter locates human infectious diseases and infectious disease impacts on human communities within a holistic, nonanthropocentric, and co-evolutionary perspective.
Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action

This new text provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical anthropology.
Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action

Third, through an examination of health inequalities on the one hand and environmental degradation and environment-related illness on the other, the book underlines the need for going beyond cultural or even ecological models of health ...
A Companion to Medical Anthropology

REFERENCES Abadia- Barrero, C. E., 2004 Happy children with AIDS: The paradox of a healthy national program in an unequal and exclusionary Brazil. ... Bartlett, J. G., and Gallant, G., 2005 Medical Management of HIV Infection 2005–2006.
A Companion to Medical Anthropology

This is critical social research at its very best.” Richard G. Parker, Columbia University “With its broad scope and accomplished contributors, this volume will be a primary reference for all medical anthropologists and students of the ...
Stigma Syndemics: New Directions in Biosocial Health

Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma.