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An Interview With Merrill Singer
From: Crisis and Contagion
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In this chapter, Ian McKay interviews Merrill Singer about issues relating to COVID-19. Merrill Singer is a medical anthropologist and professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Connecticut and in community medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He completed his PhD at the University of Utah in 1979 and served as researcher, then director of research, then associate director at the Hispanic Health Council in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1982 to 2007, after which he moved to the University of Connecticut. He is well-known within medical anthropology for introducing such concepts as “syndemics,“oppression illness,” and “pluralea.” His publications number in the hundreds.
Contributors
Ian McKay
Ian McKay is the L.R. Wilson Chair in Canadian History at McMaster University and the author of the award-winning Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890–1920 and the co-author of Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in the Age of Anxiety.
