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Autor:
Nicola Bulled, Merrill Singer
Publikováno v:
Discover Social Science and Health, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2024)
Abstract 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 perpetuated centuries of risky labor and livin
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https://doaj.org/article/bd6a6bb919b7423e8a5d73c63f1ffe48
Autor:
Nicola Bulled, Merrill Singer
Publikováno v:
Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity, Vol 14 (2024)
Background COVID-19’s heavy toll on human health, and its concentration within specific at-risk groups including the socially vulnerable and individuals with comorbidities, has made it the focus of much syndemic discourse. Syndemic theory recognize
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https://doaj.org/article/ddc051aa639a4d308f30e195c2507abf
Autor:
Merrill Singer
Publikováno v:
Pathogens, Vol 13, Iss 5, p 370 (2024)
Syndemics, the adverse interaction of two or more coterminous diseases or other negative health conditions, have probably existed since human settlement, plant and animal domestication, urbanization, and the growth of social inequality beginning abou
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https://doaj.org/article/a083cbf3c51a41ae82d88767a5e38aae
Autor:
Merrill Singer
Publikováno v:
Journal of Political Ecology, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 437-451 (2014)
The objective of neoliberal globalization, as noted by various observers, is not the improvement of global health and wellbeing but the expansion of deregulated markets in international trade and investment, a characteristic affirmed and illustrated
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https://doaj.org/article/74792ad735164fee9126d44ab4c52494
Autor:
Monica Malta, Simone Monteiro, Rosa Maria Jeronymo Lima, Suzana Bauken, Aliamar de Marco, Gleisse Cristine Zuim, Francisco Inacio Bastos, Merrill Singer, Steffanie Anne Strathdee
Publikováno v:
Revista de Saúde Pública, Vol 42, Iss 5, Pp 830-837 (2008)
OBJECTIVE: To understand the social context of female sex workers who use crack and its impact on HIV/AIDS risk behaviors. METHODODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES: Qualitative study carried out in Foz do Iguaçu, Southern Brazil, in 2003. Twenty-six in-depth int
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https://doaj.org/article/5df24722d6b64098a1ce268491df9836
Autor:
Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer
In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the
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 for
Autor:
Merrill Singer, J Bryan Page
Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless—culturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, this book argues that the social construction of some people as useless is in fact extremely us
Autor:
J. Bryan Page, Merrill Singer
Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs. J. Bryan Page and Merrill Singer cre
Autor:
Merrill Singer, G. Derrick Hodge
In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed