About Me:
Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Senior Research Scientist, Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention, University of Connecticut
Research Interests: medical anthropology, structural factors in health inequality, critical medical anthropology theory, political ecology of health, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, violence, inner city populations, syndemics.
Area(s) of Training
anthropology, applied anthropology, cultural anthropology, ethnography, medical anthropology, public health
Area(s) of Expertise
Health inequality, political ecology of health, syndemics, subtance abuse, HIV/AIDS, public health
Current Area of Employment
Research and Teaching
Comments
Merrill Singer
Drugging the Poor: Legal and Illegal Drug Industries and the Structuring of Social Inequality. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action. Rowman Press.