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  • BUILDING THE CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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    BUILDING THE CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    HANS A. BAER / MERRILL SINGER
    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 with the two main contending perspectives in the field, namely the cultural ecological and the cultural interpretive perspectives. Guided by these, the authors take a firm stance...

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  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AIDS
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    THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AIDS
    MERRILL SINGER
    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. ...

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  • CRITICAL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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    CRITICAL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
    MERRILL SINGER / HANS BAER
    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,...

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  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY
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    CLIMATE CHANGE AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY
    MERRILL SINGER
    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 vacu...

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  • THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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    THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    HANS A. BAER / MERRILL SINGER
    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 foundations for this work in the archaeology of climate change, and presents ...

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  • SOCIAL JUSTICE AND MEDICAL PRACTICE
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    SOCIAL JUSTICE AND MEDICAL PRACTICE
    MERRILL SINGER / REBECCA ALLEN
    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, structu...

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  • GLOBAL WARMING AND THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF HEALTH
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    GLOBAL WARMING AND THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF HEALTH
    HANS BAER / MERRILL SINGER
    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, medicine, and environmental sciences, they present ecosyndemics as a ...

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  • ANTHROPOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
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    ANTHROPOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
    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 ...

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  • THE SOCIAL VALUE OF DRUG ADDICTS
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    THE SOCIAL VALUE OF DRUG ADDICTS
    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, a...

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  • NEW DRUGS ON THE STREET
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    NEW DRUGS ON THE STREET
    MERRILL SINGER
    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 respond. New Drugs on the Street: Changing Inner City Patterns of Illicit Consump...

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