This paper examines the COVID-19 pandemic in light of two key concepts in medical
anthropology: syndemics and structural violence. Following a discussion of the nature of …

In 2003 five northern Nigerian states boycotted the oral polio vaccine due to fears that it was
unsafe. Though the international responses have been scrutinised in the literature, this …

Vaccines—often lauded as one of the greatest public health interventions—are losing public
confidence. Some vaccine experts have referred to this decline in confidence as a crisis. We …

The movement for research transparency has gained irresistible momentum over the past
decade. Although qualitative research is rarely published in the high-impact journals that …

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed multiple substantial challenges, affecting not only
public health but also economic systems, socio-cultural patterns, and political institutions …

Global environmental change and recent worldwide infectious-disease outbreaks make the
ecological perspective of medical anthropology more important a field of study than ever. In …

Since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988 the global
incidence of poliomyelitis has fallen by nearly 99%. From a situation where wild type …

Many global health practitioners are currently reaffirming the importance of recruiting and
retaining effective community health workers (CHWs) in order to achieve major public health …

As the world pins its hope for the end of the coronavirus pandemic to the successful rollout of
vaccines, this book offers a vital long view of such efforts—and our resistance to them. At a …

This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical,
biocultural framework. Leading medical anthropologist Merrill Singer holistically unites the …