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Work in Progress on Syndemics:
Merrill Singer, Toward a Critical Bio-Social Model of Ecohealth in Southern Africa: The HIV/AIDS and Nutrition Insecurity Syndemic under review for inclusion in Anthropological Approaches to Confronting HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Barrett Brenton, David Himmelgreen, John Mazzeo.
Merrill Singer, Sociogenic Factors in HIV/AIDS Syndemics: The Development and Perspective of Critical Medical Anthropology for a special issue of the journal Social Theory and Health on the topic of HIV/AIDS in its Third Decade: Renewed Critique in Social and Cultural Analysis edited by Eric Mykhalovskiy and Marsha Rosengarten.
Merrill Singer, Desperate Measures: A Syndemic Approach to the Anthropology of Health in a Violent City, in Global Health in the Time of Violence edited by Paul Farmer, Barbara Rylko-Bauer and Linda Whiteford, in press for 2008, Sante Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research (SAR).
Upcoming Presentations
The Changing Face of Public Health: Global Warming and Ecosyndemics presented by Merrill Singer at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), March 7, 2008 in the Academic Quadrangle at 11:30 am. This presentation is Sponsored by The Dean of Health Sciences, the Department of History, and the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Peoples of North America.
Global Warming and Health: Envisioning Social Research on Health for the 21st Century presented by Merrill Singer at the University of Calgary, March 11, 2008.
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Recent Presentations
Ecosyndemics: Advancing Biocultural Synthesis in Medical Anthropology presented by Merrill Singer on October 12, 2007 at the Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Ecosyndemics: Global Warming and the Coming Plagues of the 21st Century presented by Merrill Singer on September 17, 2007 at the Wenner Gren Foundation Conference: Plagues: Models and Metaphors in the Human ‘Struggle with Disease,’ Tucson, AZ.
