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  • African American Religion

    Varieties of Protest and Accommodation

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Health Anthropology

    A Discipline in Action

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Human and Planetary Health

    An Ecosyndemic Approach

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Building the Critical Anthropology of Climate Change

    Towards a Socio-Ecological Revolution

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • COVID-19 Syndemics and the Global South

    A World Divided

    Edición de Inayat Ali, Merrill Singer, Nicola Bulled ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
    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 inequalities and certain subpopulations were more exposed to COVID‑19 as well as experienced greater morbidity and mortality. The effects of the pandemic differ between countries but have had an ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Introduction to Syndemics

    A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $76.00 USD

  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $165.00 USD

  • Ecosystem Crises Interactions

    Human Health and the Changing Environment

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $111.00 USD

  • Unhealthy Health Policy

    A Critical Anthropological Examination

    de Cesar E. Abadia-Barrero, Francisco Armada, Hans A. Baer, Katherine Elaine Bliss, Philippe Bourgois, David Buchanan, Claudia Chaufan, Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Alice Desclaux, Paul Farmer, Didier Fassin, Sarah Horton, Kristen M. Jacklin, Salmaan Keshavjee, Kaveh Khoshnoo, Cathy Hodge McCoid, Carles Muntaner, Joan E. Paluzzi, James Pfeiffer, Imrana Qadeer, Susan Shaw, Tom Stopka, Wei Teng, Graham A. Tobin, Fouzieyha Towghi, Nalini Visvanathan, William Wagner, Howard Waitzkin, Wayne Warry, Linda M. Whiteford, Cathleen Willging ...
    This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often represent significant structural threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. The volume ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Stigma Syndemics

    New Directions in Biosocial Health

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Foundations of Biosocial Health

    Stigma and Illness Interactions

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health

    Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions

    de Hans Baer, Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology
    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 new paradigm for ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD