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Singer, Merrill Charles was born on October 6, 1950 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Herman and Hannah (Acker) Singer.
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Critical medical anthropology examines health-related issues in pre-capitalist indigenous and state societies, capitalist societies and post-revolutionary or socialist-oriented societies. While critical medical anthropology draws heavily on neo-Marxian, critical and world systems theoretical perspectives, it attempts to incorporate the theoretical contributions of other systems in medical anthropology, including biocultural or medical ecology, ethnomedical approaches, cultural constructivism, poststructuralism and postmodernism. The first part of the book provides the reader with a discussion of the central concepts in, and the development and scope of medical anthropology, as well as the critical perspective employed. The second part explores health and the environment as well as the social origins of specific health problems. The diversity of medical systems in different societies is highlighted in the third part. Finally, part four argues for a merger of theory and social action.
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Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural violence. It also examines how the exercise of power in the health arena and in society overall impacts human health and well-being.
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The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power, in shaping health, disease, illness experience, and health care. Since its emergence in the early 1980s, this perspective has struggled to move medical anthropology away from its service sector subordination to biomedicine toward a more holistic understanding of the causes of sickness, the classicist, racist, and sexist functions of biomedicine, the interrelationship of medical systems with political structures, the contested character of provider patient relations, and the localization of patient/suffer experience in political economic contexts. The volume specifically builds on the extensive field research and health activism of three medical anthropologists who have played pivotal roles in the formation of critical medical anthropology, both as a perspective and as an organized body of scholarly work. Of interest to a wide spectrum of health professionals, Critical Medical Anthropology, is designed for use as a supplemental text by instructors who wish to provide a sense of the range of perspectives within the field as a main text among instructors who have adopted the critical perspective and wish to show its relevance to a broad array of social science health issues.
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Singer, Merrill Charles was born on October 6, 1950 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Herman and Hannah (Acker) Singer.
Bachelor, California State University, 1972. Master of Arts, California State University, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, University Utah, 1979.
Postdoctoral fellow, George Washington University, Washington, 1979-1980; assistant professor, American U., Washington, 1980-1982; postdoctoral fellow, U. Connecticut, Hartford, 1982-1983; project director, Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, 1983-1987; director research, Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, since 1988; deputy director, Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, since 1990; acting executive director, Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, 1993-1994. Consultant, Hartford, since 1990.
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Member National Association Professional Anthropologists (executive committee, board directors 1993-1995), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and Anthropology Research Group (steering committee 1991-1994, Paper prize 1993), American Anthropol. Association, American Anthropol. Association Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Commission, Society Medical Anthropology (Rudolph Virchow prize 1991), Society Applied Anthropology.
Married Cheryl Gorn, June 1977 (divorced 1982). Married Lani Hillis Davison, December 15, 1983. Children: Jacob, Elyse.