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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

  • The Origin and Deeds of the Goths

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Enigmatic Culture and Conquests of the Ostrogoths

    by Active 6th century Jordanes, Shelby Merrill ...
    Translated by Charles Christopher Mierow ...
    In "The Origin and Deeds of the Goths," Jordanes presents a seminal chronicle documenting the history, culture, and military exploits of the Gothic tribes from their mythical origins to their encounters with the Roman Empire. Written in a concise and engaging style, the text serves not only as a historical account but also as a reflection of the author's attempt to frame Gothic identity amidst the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

    $43.99 USD

  • Building the Critical Anthropology of Climate Change

    Towards a Socio-Ecological Revolution

    by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Anthropology
    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 on the types of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Introduction to Syndemics

    A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health

    by Merrill Singer ...
    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. This perspective complements single-issue prevention strategies, which can be effective for discrete problems, but often are mismatched to the goal of protecting the public's health in its widest sense. ... Read more

    $76.00 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

  • 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

  • Stigma Syndemics

    New Directions in Biosocial Health

    by Bayla Ostrach, Shir Lerman Ginzburg, Jesse T. Young, Kate van Dooren, Sarah Raskin, Veronique A.S. Griffith, Courtney L. Everson, Pamela I. Erickson, Fernanda Claudio0, Megan A. Carney1, Elaine M. Bennett2, Roula AbiSamra3, Nick Lennox4, Merrill Singer6 ...
    Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for examining and addressing pathways of interaction between biological and social aspects of chronic and acute suffering in populations. While much ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Foundations of Biosocial Health

    Stigma and Illness Interactions

    by Bayla Ostrach, Nicholas Emard, Theodore Gideonse, Seung Yong Han, Ruthanne Marcus, Gerald McKinley, Mary A. Ott, Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer, Alexandra Brewis, Sarah Trainer0, Kara Wools-Kaloustian1, Amber Wutich2, Shir Lerman Ginzburg4, Harrison M.K. Maithya5, Merrill Singer7 ...
    The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The authors delineate multiple examples of stigma-driven syndemics to demonstrate both the nature of disease interactions and how stigma ... Read more

    $105.29 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

    $76.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of AIDS

    by Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series
    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. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD