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List of works by Merrill Singer

"I Feel Suffocated:" Understandings of Climate Change in an Inner City Heat Island

scientific article

"Nobody gives a damn if I live or die": violence, drugs, and street-level prostitution in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut

scientific article

"War stories": AIDS prevention and the street narratives of drug users.

scientific article published on September 2001

A Methodological Model for Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation: The RARE Program in Public Health

scientific article published in May 2001

A Rejoinder to Wiley's Critique of Critical Medical Anthropology

scientific article published in June 1993

A comparison of the nutritional status and food security of drug-using and non-drug-using Hispanic women in Hartford, Connecticut

scientific article published on 01 November 1998

A multistate trial of pharmacy syringe purchase

scientific article

AIDS and US Ethnic Minorities: The Crisis and Alternative Anthropological Responses ⬇️

journal article from 'Human Organization' published in 1992

Adapting RARE to assess barriers to service receipt among people out of care

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Aids Prevention and The African–American Injection Drug User

scientific article published in January 1993

Alcohol use in adolescents whose fathers abuse drugs

scientific article published in January 2003

Am I My Brother's Keeper?: A Case Study of the Responsibilities of Research ⬇️

journal article from 'Human Organization' published in 2000

Anthropology and addiction: an historical review ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

Applying Anthropology to the Prevention of AIDS: The Latino Gay Men's Health Project ⬇️

journal article from 'Human Organization' published in 1996

Archaeology in the Era of Powassan and Expanding Tick-Borne Infection

scholarly article by Merrill Singer published in November 2015

Are There Global Syndemics? ⬇️

journal article from 'Medical Anthropology' published in 2022

Assessment of HIV testing of urban injection drug users: implications for expansion of HIV testing and prevention efforts

scientific article published on 30 November 2006

At special risk: Biopolitical vulnerability and HIV/STI syndemics among women

scientific article published in September 2012

Beyond Global Warming: Interacting Ecocrises and the Critical Anthropology of Health

scientific article published in June 2009

Beyond the Ivory Tower: Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1995

Biomedicine and the Political Economy of Science

scientific article published in December 1992

Black 'N Mild and carcinogenic: cigar smoking among inner city young adults in Hartford, CT.

scientific article

Changing the environment of aids risk: Findings on syringe exchange and pharmacy sales of syringes in Hartford, CT ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Climate Change and Social Inequality

scientific article published on 3 October 2018

Community-Based AIDS Prevention: Preliminary Outcomes of a Program for African American and Latino Injection Drug Users

scientific article published in July 1996

Community-Centered Praxis: Toward an Alternative Non-dominative Applied Anthropology ⬇️

journal article from 'Human Organization' published in 1994

Conceptualizing COVID-19 syndemics: A scoping review

scientific article published in 2024

Conceptualizing the impact of indirect violence on HIV risk among women involved in street-level prostitution

article

Condom use with serious and casual heterosexual partners: findings from a community venue-based survey of young adults

scientific article published in March 2013

Criminalization of HIV Transmission and Exposure: Research and Policy Agenda ⬇️

scientific article published on June 13, 2013

Critical Medical Anthropology

scientific article published on 26 October 2018

Culture, Critical Theory, and Reproductive Illness Behavior in Haiti

scientific article published in December 1988

Deadly Companions: COVID-19 and Diabetes in Mexico

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Demographic, HIV risk behavior, and health status characteristics of "crack" cocaine injectors compared to other injection drug users in three New England cities

scientific article published on 19 September 2005

Dengue and diabetes comorbidities: an emerging syndemic public health threat

scientific article published on 3 March 2025

Development, coinfection, and the syndemics of pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article

Doubts remain, risks persist: HIV prevention knowledge and HIV testing among drug users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

scientific article published on 14 April 2010

Down Cancer Alley: The Lived Experience of Health and Environmental Suffering in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Drug Use Patterns of Substance Abusing Women: Gender and Ethnic Differences in an AIDS Prevention Program

article

Drugs and development: the global impact of drug use and trafficking on social and economic development

scientific article published on 23 January 2007

Drug‐use patterns: An ever‐whirling wheel of change ⬇️

journal article from 'Medical Anthropology' published in 2000

Dust in the wind: the growing use of embalming fluid among youth in Hartford, CT.

scientific article published in January 2005

Eco-nomics: Are the Planet-Unfriendly Features of Capitalism Barriers to Sustainability?

scientific article published in 2010

Economic evaluation of delivering hepatitis B vaccine to injection drug users

scientific article published on July 2008

Ectoparasitic Syndemics: Polymicrobial Tick-borne Disease Interactions in a Changing Anthropogenic Landscape

scientific article

Effects of increasing syringe availability on syringe-exchange use and HIV risk: Connecticut, 1990-2001.

scientific article

Empirical Science Meets Moral Panic: An Analysis of the Politics of Needle Exchange

scientific article published in 2003

Empirical science meets moral panic: an analysis of the politics of needle exchange.

scientific article

Ethical dilemmas created by the criminalization of status behaviors: case examples from ethnographic field research with injection drug users

scientific article published in February 2002

Ethics and AIDS in Africa: The Challenge to Our Thinking edited by Anton A. Van Niekerk and Loretta M. Kopelman

scientific article published in 2011

Factors associated with hepatitis B vaccine series completion in a randomized trial for injection drug users reached through syringe exchange programs in three US cities

scientific article

Following the turkey tails: neoliberal globalization and the political ecology of health

scientific article published in December 2014

Food Insecurity Among Low-Income Hispanics in Hartford, Connecticut: Implications for Public Health Policy ⬇️

journal article from 'Human Organization' published in 2000

Food habits of drug‐using Puerto Rican women in inner‐city Hartford ⬇️

journal article from 'Medical Anthropology' published in 1999

Generations of Suffering: Experiences of a Treatment Program for Substance Abuse During Pregnancy

scientific article published in 1992

Getting the message straight: effects of a brief hepatitis prevention intervention among injection drug users

scientific article

HIV Serostatus and Risk Behaviors in a Multisite Sample of Drug Users ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1998

HIV, AIDS, and Other Health Risks: Findings from a Multisite Study-An Introduction ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

HIV/AIDS risk among female sex workers who use crack in Southern Brazil.

scientific article published in October 2008

Hepatitis B Virus Prevalence and Vaccination Rates among Hispanic Injection Drug Users Participating in a Vaccination Campaign

scientific article published in January 2008

Hepatitis-associated knowledge is low and risks are high among HIV-aware injection drug users in three US cities.

scientific article

High Risk Drug Use Sites, Meaning and Practice: Implications for AidS Prevention

scientific article published in July 2001

High notes: the role of drugs in the making of Jazz

scientific article

High on illy: Monitoring an emergent drug problem in Hartford, CT ⬇️

journal article from 'Medical Anthropology' published in 2000

I love you... and heroin: care and collusion among drug-using couples

scientific article

INTERLOCKED INFECTIONS: THE HEALTH BURDENS OF SYNDEMICS OF NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES

article

If I didn't have HIV, I'd be dead now: illness narratives of drug users living with HIV/AIDS.

scientific article

Implications of Changing Attitudes towards Game Meat Consumption at the Time of Ebola in Limbe, Cameroon

scientific article published in 2017

In the shadow of HIV & TB: A commentary on the COVID epidemic in South Africa

scientific article published on 02 June 2020

Individuals Are Continents; or, Why It's Time to Retire the Island Approach to Addiction

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Injection drug users report good access to pharmacy sale of syringes.

scientific article published on November 2002

Interdisciplinarity and collaboration in responding to HIV and AIDS in Africa: anthropological perspectives

scientific article published in December 2009

Introduction

Lessons from the Field: From Research to Application in the Fight Against AIDS among Injection Drug Users in Three New England Cities ⬇️

journal article from 'Human Organization' published in 2005

Long Covid: A Syndemics Approach to Understanding and Response

scholarly article

Loving Ebola-chan: Internet memes in an epidemic

scientific article published in 2016

Needle Access as an AIDS Prevention Strategy for IV Drug Users: A Research Perspective ⬇️

journal article from 'Human Organization' published in 1991

Needle exchange and aids prevention: Controversies, policies and research ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Neighborhood differences in patterns of syringe access, use, and discard among injection drug users: implications for HIV outreach and prevention education

scientific article

New Drugs on the Street

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

New drugs on the street: an introduction

scientific article

Organizational Culture in A Community‐based Health Organization: The Hispanic Health Council

scientific article published in September 1990

Owning AIDS: Latino Organizations and the AIDS Epidemic

scientific article published in May 1990

Part IV: The social meaning of medicine in a sectarian community ⬇️

journal article from 'Medical Anthropology' published in 1981

Pathogen-pathogen interaction: a syndemic model of complex biosocial processes in disease

scientific article

Pathogens gone wild? Medical anthropology and the "swine flu" pandemic

scientific article published in July 2009

Perspectives: Matching Programs to Populations in Substance Abuse Treatment

scientific article published in 1992

Pharmacist Ambivalence About Sale of Syringes to Injection Drug Users

scientific article published in November 2002

Pharmacist ambivalence about sale of syringes to injection drug users

scientific article published on November 2002

Prevalence and predictors of transitions to and away from syringe exchange use over time in 3 US cities with varied syringe dispensing policies

scientific article

Preventing AIDS among Drug Users: Evaluating Efficacy

scientific article published in July 1996

Preventing AIDS in Communities of Color: Anthropology and Social Prevention ⬇️

journal article from 'Human Organization' published in 1996

Psychosocial and behavioral differences among drug injectors who use and do not use syringe exchange programs.

scientific article published on December 2005

Public health interventionists, penny capitalists, or sources of risk?: assessing street syringe sellers in Hartford, Connecticut

scientific article published in July 2003

Puerto Rican Community Mobilizing in Response to the AIDS Crisis ⬇️

journal article from 'Human Organization' published in 1991

Pygmies and Their Dogs: A Note on Culturally Constituted Defense Mechanisms

scientific article published in December 1978

Rapid assessment of the HIV/AIDS crisis in racial and ethnic minority communities: an approach for timely community interventions

article

Rebranding Our Field? Toward an Articulation of Health Anthropology

article

Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past, Present, and Future ⬇️

journal article from 'American Anthropologist' published in 2006

Reflections on 40 Years of Ethnographic Drug Abuse Research: Implications for the Future

scientific article published in January 2009

Research-informed policy: our most critical unresolved issue in AIDS

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Respiratory health and ecosyndemics in a time of global warming

scientific article published in March 2013

Response

Reversing the hierarchy: rethinking multidisciplinarity in drug research

scientific article published in February 2003

SIDA: The Economic, Social, and Cultural Context of AIDS among Latinos

scientific article published in March 1990

SYNDEMICS AND HUMAN HEALTH: IMPLICATIONS FOR PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION

article

SYNDEMICS OF WAR: MALNUTRITION-INFECTIOUS DISEASE INTERACTIONS AND THE UNINTENDED HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF INTENTIONAL WAR POLICIES

scientific article (publication date: November 2012)

Sale and Exchange of Syringes ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 September 1995

Social Justice and Medical Practice

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Sterile syringe access conditions and variations in HIV risk among drug injectors in three cities.

scientific article published on September 2004

Strategies for managing the dual risk of sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy among Puerto Rican and African American young adults

scientific article published on 19 January 2012

Streets, Drugs, and the Economy of Sex in the Age of AIDS ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Syndemics and intersectionality: A response commentary

scientific article published in February 2022

Syndemics and the biosocial conception of health

scientific article published on March 2017

Syndemics in Global Health

article

Syndemics of the sea: Adverse disease interactions and the stressors of fisher livelihoods

scientific article published on 3 November 2023

Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19 ⬇️

journal article from 'Annual Review of Anthropology' published in 2021

Syringe-Mediated Syndemics

scientific article (publication date: 3 November 2009)

TOWARD A CRITICAL BIOSOCIAL MODEL OF ECOHEALTH IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: THE HIV/AIDS AND NUTRITION INSECURITY SYNDEMIC

scientific article (publication date: May 2011)

The Anthropology of Climate Change

scientific article published on 24 April 2014

The Anti-Coal and Anti-Coal Seam Gas Campaigns as Components of the Climate Movement in Australia: Responses to Corporate Hegemony

scientific article published on 6 February 2020

The Challenges of Street Research on Drug Use, Violence, and Aids Risk

journal article; published in Addiction Research & Theory in 2001

The Evolution of AIDS Work in a Puerto Rican Community Organization ⬇️

journal article from 'Human Organization' published in 1996

The RARE model of rapid HIV risk assessment

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

The Social Value of Drug Addicts

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

The application of theory in medical anthropology: An introduction ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

The biosocial health of U.S. long haul truckers: Syndemics of the road

scientific article published in February 2025

The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

The high, the money, and the fame: The emergent social context of “new marijuana” use among urban youth ⬇️

journal article from 'Medical Anthropology' published in 2000

The occupational syndemics of miners in South Africa

scientific article published on 16 August 2024

The role of infectious disease in the loss of biodiversity

scientific article published on 16 September 2024

The social context and meaning of virginity loss among African American and Puerto Rican young adults in Hartford

scientific article published on 18 September 2013

The social geography of AIDS and hepatitis risk: qualitative approaches for assessing local differences in sterile-syringe access among injection drug users

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

The social origins and expressions of illness

scientific article published in January 2004

The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users.

scientific article published on 19 March 2005

The spread of Zika and the potential for global arbovirus syndemics

scientific article

The syndemics of childhood diarrhoea: a biosocial perspective on efforts to combat global inequities in diarrhoea-related morbidity and mortality.

scientific article

Tomorrow is Already Here, Or is it? Steps in Preventing a Local Methamphetamine Outbreak ⬇️

journal article from 'Human Organization' published in 2006

Transcending 'ordinary times rules' in environmental health: the critical challenge for medical anthropology

scientific article

Under the counter: the diffusion of narcotic analgesics to the inner city street

scientific article

Unmasked: COVID, community, and the case of Okoboji By EmilyMendenhall. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 312 pp

scientific article published on 27 January 2023

Variation in Drug Injection Frequency Among Out-of-Treatment Drug Users in a National Sample ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

What constitutes a syndemic? Methods, contexts, and framing from 2019

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

When the drug of choice is a drug of confusion: embalming fluid use in inner city Hartford, CT.

scientific article

Whither syndemics?: Trends in syndemics research, a review 2015-2019

scientific article published on 09 February 2020

Why do Puerto Rican injection drug users inject so often?

Why does juan garcía have a drinking problem? The perspective of critical medical anthropology ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

Writing about risk: use of daily diaries in understanding drug-user risk behaviors

scientific article published on March 2004

Zoonotic Ecosyndemics and Multispecies Ethnography

scientific article published in September 2014

“And Let Me See Them Damn Papers!” The Role of STI/AIDS Screening Among Urban African American and Puerto Rican Youth in the Transition to Sex Without a Condom ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

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