Merrill Singer

In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyse 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 understanding the relationship between environmental...

Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless—culturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, The Social Value of Drug Addicts 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 analyse media representations, drug policy, and underlying...