Merrill Singer

Medical Historians and Anthropologists Respond to Assaults on Public Health

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...

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...

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...

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...