Just published:

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

NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE:

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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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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, a new publication (2024)

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

New book on climate change (2024)

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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.

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....