Publication List

Year Published

2003

Merrill Singer, Scott Clair, Jean Schensul, Cristina Huebner, Julie Eiserman, Raul Pino and Jose Garcia. Dust in the Wind: The Growing Use of Embalming Fluid among Youth in Hartford, CT.  Substance Use and Misuse (in press).   

Michael Duke, Merrill Singer, JiangHong Li and Pushpinder Pelia. A Community-Based Organization Builds an International Initiative.  Anthropology New, p.15, January 2003.

David Brook, Judith Brook, Elizabeth Rubenstone, Chenshu Zhang, Merrill Singer and Michael Duke. Alcohol Use in Adolescents Whose Fathers Abuse Drugs.  Journal of Addictive Diseases 22(1):11-34, 2003.

Merrill Singer. Enduring Challenges of Community-Based HIV Prevention Among Not-in-Treatment Drug Users.  Strategies to Improve the Replicability, Sustainability, and Durability of HIV Prevention Interventions for Drug Users. Washington, D.C.: National Institute on Drug Abuse 2003.

Claudia Santelices, Anna Marie Nicolaysen, Julie Eiserman, Wei Teng, Tom Stopka and Merrill Singer. Embolle y VIH/SIDA en El Barrio: Un Atisbo Etnogr‡fico Urbano. Ethnographias Visuales 2003.

Tom Stopka, Merrill Singer, Claudia Santelices, and Julie Eiserman. Public Health Interventionists, Penny Capitalists, or Sources of Risk? Assessing Street Syringe Sellers in Hartford, Connecticut.  Substance Use & Misuse, Vol. 38, No. 9, pp. 1339-1370, 2003.

Richard Needle, Robert Trotter, Merrill Singer, Christopher Bates, J. Bryan Page, David Metzger and Louis Marcelin.  Rapid Assessment of the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities: An Approach for Timely Community Interventions.  American Journal of Public Health 93(6):970-979, 2003.

Scott Clair, Merrill Singer, Elsa Huertas and Margaret Weeks. Unintended Consequences of Using an Oral HIV Test on HIV Knowledge.  AIDS Care 15(4):575-580, 2003.

Merrill Singer and Scott Clair.  Syndemics and Public Health: Reconceptualizing Disease in Bio-Social Context. Medical Anthropology (in press).

Merrill Singer.  The Hispanic Health Council: An Experiment in Applied Anthropology.  Practicing Anthropology 25(3):2-7, 2003.

Jianghong Li, Susan Shaw, Merrill Singer and Scott Clair.  The Tensions of Unity: Challenges of Community Centered Research.  Practicing Anthropology 25(3):8-11, 2003.

Anna Marie Nicolaysen, Tom Stopka, Jianghong Li and Claudia Santelices. The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Community-Based Health Research.  Practicing Anthropology 25(3):16-18, 2003.

Julie Eiserman, Merrill Singer, Jean Schensul and Lorie Broomhall. Methodological Challenges in Club Drug Research.  Practicing Anthropology 25(3):19-22, 2003.

Claudia Santelices, Merrill Singer and Anna Marie Nicolaysen.  Risky and Precarious Dependencies of Puerto Rican IDUs in El Barrio: An Ethnographic Glimpse. Practicing Anthropology 25(3):23-27, 2003.

Michael Duke, Wei Teng, Janie Simmons and Merrill Singer.  Structural and Interpersonal Violence Among Puerto Rican Drug Users. Practicing Anthropology 25(3):28-31, 2003.

Merrill Singer. An Organizational Life Cycle Perspective on the Development of the Hispanic Health Council. Practicing Anthropology 25(3):46-51, 2003.

David Buchanan, Susan Shaw, Wei Teng, Poppy Hiser and Merrill Singer.  Neighborhood Differences in Patterns of Syringe Access, Use, and Discard Among Injection Drug Users: Implications for HIV Outreach and Prevention Education.  Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 80(3):438-454, September 2003.

Scott Clair, Jean J. Schensul, Monika Raju, Edward Stanek and Raul Pino.  Will You Remember Me In The Morning? Test-Retest Reliability of a Social Network Analysis Examinin HIV-Related Risky Behavior in Urban Adolescents and Young Adults.  Social Networks. (in press).

2002

David Buchanan, Kaveh Khoshnood, Tom Stopka, Claudia Santelices and Merrill Singer. Ethical Dilemmas Created by the Criminalization of Status Behaviors: Case Studies from Ethnographic Field Research with Injection Drug Users.  Health Education and Behavior 29(1):30-42.

Merrill Singer.  Toward the Use of Ethnography in Health Care Program Evaluation.  The Applied Anthropology Reader  pp. 88-104.

Wendy Reich, Wilson Compton, Joe Horton, Linda Cottler, Renee Cunningham Williams, Robert Booth, Merrill Singer, Carl Leukefeld, Joseph Fink, Tom Stopka, Karen Fortuin and Michelle Staton Tindall.  Pharmacist Ambivalence About Sale of Syringes to Injection Drug Users. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 42(6) (Supp 2): 52-57.

Robert Heimer, Scott Clair, Lauretta E. Grau, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Patricia A. Marshall, Merrill Singer.  Hepatitis-Associated Knowledge is Low and Risks are High in a Three-City Cohort of HIV-Savvy Injection Drug Users.  Addictions 97(10):1277-1288.

Margaret Weeks, Scott Clair, Stephen P. Borgatti, Kim Radda, Jean J. Schensul.  Social Networks of Drug Users in High Risk Sites:  Finding the Connections.  AIDS & Behavior 6(2):  193-206.

Thomas Stopka, Sofia Segura-Perez, Donna Chapman, Grace Damio, Rafael Perez-Escamilla.  An Innovative community-based approach to encourage breastfeeding among Hispanic/Latino women.  Journal of The American Dietetic Association 102(6): 766-767.

Merrill Singer.  Institutionalized Racism and the Academic Institution.  Newsletter of the Society for Applied Anthropology 12(4): 2-3.

Wendy Reich,Wilson Compton, Joseph Horton, Linda Cottler, Renee Cunningham-Williams, Robert Booth, Merrill Singer, Carl Leukefeld, Joseph Fink, Tom Stopka, Karen Corsi, Michelle Tindall MS.  Injection Drug Users Report Good Access to Pharmacy Sale of Syringes.  Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association.  42(Supp 2): 68-72.

Robert Heimer, Scott Clair, Wei Teng, Lauretta Grau, Kaveh Khoshnood, Merrill Singer.  Effects of Increasing Syringe Exchange Use and HIV Risk: Connecticut, 1990-2000.  Journal of Urban Health 79(4): 556-570.

Yun Wu, Wang Qitian, Cong Rihui, Jianghong Li, Ian Newman, Merrill Singer, Christopher Bates, and Michael Duke, Eds. New Advancements in Preventive Medicine. Continuing Medical Education of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.  Hohhot, Inner Mongolia: Yuanfang Press, 2002.

2001

Sherry Deren, Mark Beardsley, Susan Coyle, Merrill Singer and Sung-yeon Kang.  HIV Risk Behaviors Among Injection Drug Users in Low, Medium, and High Seroprevalence Communities.  AIDS and Behavior 5(1):45-50.

Robert Dushay, Merrill Singer, Margaret Weeks, Lucy Rohena and Richard Gruber.  Lowering HIV Risk among Ethnic Minority Drug Users: Comparing Culturally Targeted Intervention to Standard Intervention.  The American Journal of Alcohol and Drug Abuse 27(3): 501-524.

Merrill Singer, Janie Simmons, Michael Duke and Lorie Broomhall.  The Challenges of Street Research on Drug Use, Violence, and AIDS Risk.  Addiction Research and Theory 9(4): 365-402.

Merrill Singer.  African Derived Religions in Puerto Rico.  In: Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religion.  New York: Routledge, pp. 250-252.

Merrill Singer.  Black Jewish Movements.  In: Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religion.  New York: Routledge, pp. 52-55.

Merrill Singer.  Toward a Bio-Cultural and Political Economic Integration of Alcohol, Tobacco and Drug Studies.  Social Science and Medicine 53:199-213.

Merrill Singer, Glen Scott, Scott Wilson, Delia Easton and Margaret Weeks.  ÒWar StoriesÓ: AIDS Prevention and the Street Narratives of Drug Users.  Qualitative Health Research 11(5):589-611.

Margaret Weeks, Scott Clair, Merrill Singer, Kim Radda, Jean Schensul, Scott Wilson, Maria Martinez, Glenn Scott and Glenn Knight.  High Risk Drug Use Sites, Meaning and Practice.  Journal of Drug Issues 31(1):781-808.

Patricia Marshall, Robert Heimer and Merrill SingerEthical Considerations in Working with Injection Drug Users.  CIRA Notes 2(1):13&16.

Merrill Singer.  Poverty and Health: A Call to Anthropological Action.  Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter 12(3):12-13.

Merrill Singer.  Institutionalized Racism and the Academic Institution.  Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter 12(4): 17-18.

2000

David Himmelgreen, Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Sofia Segura-Millan, Yu-Kuei Peng, Anir Gonzales, Merrill Singer and Ann Ferris.  Food Insecurity among Low-Income Hispanics in Hartford, Connecticut: Implications for Public Health Policy.  Human Organization. 59(3): 334-342.

Merrill Singer, Elsa Huertas and Glenn Scott.  Am I My Brother's Keeper?: A Case Study of the Responsibilities of Research.  Human Organization 59(4): 389-400.

Mihaela Tanasescu, Ann M. Ferris, David Himmelgreen, Nancy Rodriguez, Rafael Perez-Escamilla.  Biobehavioral Factors Are Associated with Obesity in Puerto Rican Children.  American Society for Nutritional Sciences, pp. 1734-1742.

Lauren Haldeman, Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Ann M. Ferris, Linda Drake, David Himmelgreen, Harby Bonello, Anir Gonzalez, Sofia Segura-Millan, Ivette Mendez, Angela Bermudez, Nancy Romero-Daza.  Development of a Color-Coded Bilingual Food Label for Low-Literacy Latino Caretakers.  Society for Nutrition Education, pp. 152-160.

Merrill Singer.  Drug-Use Patterns:  An Ever-Whirling Wheel of Change.  Medical Anthropology 18:299-303.

Merrill Singer.  Evaluating a National AIDS Initiative.  Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter 11(3):3-5.

Merrill Singer, Joy Ann Juvalis and Margaret Weeks.  High on Illy:  Studying an Emergent Drug Problem in Hartford, CT. Medical Anthropology 18:365-388.

Rafael Perez-Escamilla, David Himmelgreen, Harby Bonello, Yu-Kuei Peng, Gloria Mengual, Anir Gonzalez, Ivette Mendez, Jocelyn Cruz, Lisa Phillips.  Marketing Nutrition Among Urban Latinos:  The ÁSalud! Campaign.  Journal of the American Dietetic Association 100(6): 698-701.

Jean Schensul, Cristina Huebner, Merrill Singer, Lorie Broomhall and Pablo Feliciano.  The High, the Money, and the Fame: The Social Context of  'New Marijuana' Use among Urban Youth.  Medical Anthropology 18:389-414.

Merrill Singer, Tom Stopka, Cara Siano, Kristen Springer, George Barton, Kaveh Khoshnood, April Gorry de Puga and Robert Heimer.  The Social Geography of AIDS and Hepatitis Risk: Qualitative Approaches for Assessing Local Differences in Sterile Syringe Access among Injection Drug Users. American Journal of Public Health 90(7): 1049-1056.

Merrill Singer. Why I am Not a Public Anthropologist.  Anthropology Newsletter 41(6).

Merrill Singer.  Updates on Projects Recovery and CONNECT.  Careers in Anthropology:  Profiles of Practitioner Anthropologists.  Paula Sabloff (ed.), pp 64-66.  NAPA Bulletin #20.  Washington, DC: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.

Robert T. Trotter, II, Richard H. Needle, Eric Goosby, Christopher Bates, Merrill Singer. A Methodological Model for Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation: The RARE Program in Public Health.  Field Methods 13(2):137-159.

1999

Merrill Singer and Nancy Romero-Daza.  A Notable Connection Between Substance Abuse, Violence, and AIDS: Initial Findings From Research in the Puerto Rican Community of Hartford. The Bulletin of the Alcohol & Drug Study Group 34(2): 9-12.

Jean Schensul, Margaret Weeks and Merrill Singer. Building Research Partnerships.  In: Research Roles and Research Partnerships, Book 6, The Ethnographer's Toolkit.  Margaret LeCompte, Jean Schensul, Margaret Weeks and Merrill Singer (Eds.), pp. 85-164.  Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Nancy Romero-Daza, David Himmelgreen, Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Sofia Segura-Perez and Merrill Singer.  Food Habits of Drug-Using Puerto Rican Women in Inner-City Hartford.  Medical Anthropology 18(3):281-298.

Merrill Singer, Patricia Marshall and Michael Clatts.  Frontiers in AIDS and Drug Abuse Prevention Research--Toward the Integration of Anthropological and Epidemiological Approaches.  In: Cultural, Observational, and Epidemiological Approaches in the Prevention of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS.  Patricia Marshall, Merrill Singer, and Michael Clatts, eds., pp. 1-25.  Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Rafael Perez-Escamilla, David Himmelgreen, Sofia Segura-Perez, Anir Gonzalez, Ivette Mendez, Lauren Haldeman.  Knowledge of Folic Acid and Neural Tube Defects Among Inner-City Residents:  Have they heard about it?  Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 99(1):80-83.

Merrill Singer.  Studying Hidden Populations.  In: Mapping Networks, Spatial Data and Hidden Populations, Book 4, The Ethnographer's Toolkit.  Jean Schensul, Margaret LeCompte, Robert Trotter, E. Cromley and Merrill Singer, Eds., pp. 125-191.  Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Merrill Singer.  The Ethnography of Street Drug Use Before AIDS: A Historic Review.  In: Cultural, Observational, and Epidemiological Approaches in the Prevention of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS.  Patricia Marshall, Merrill Singer and Michael Clatts, eds., pp. 228-264.  Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Merrill Singer.  Why Do Puerto Rican Injection Drug Users Inject So Often?  Anthropology and Medicine 6(1):31-58.

Merrill Singer.  Toward a Critical Biocultural Model of Drug Use and Health Risk.  In: Cultural, Observational, and Epidemiological Approaches in the Prevention of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS.  Patricia Marshall, Merrill Singer and Michael Clatts, eds., pp. 26-50.  Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Merrill Singer.  Anthropology and the Politics of AIDS Fatigue.  Anthropology Newsletter.  40(3): 58.

Merrill Singer, Patricia Marshall, Robert Trotter, Jean Schensul, Margaret Weeks, Janie Simmons, Kim Radda.  Ethics, Ethnography, Drug Use and AIDS:  Dilemmas and Standards in Federally Funded Research.  Cultural, Observational, and Epidemiological Approaches in the Prevention of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS.  Patricia Marshall, Merrill Singer, Michael Clatts, eds., pp. 198-222.  Bethesda, MD:  National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Merrill Singer, Michael Duke, Migdalia Soto, Margaret Weeks.  Violence in the Lives and Social Networks of Street Drug Users.  The Bulletin of the Alcohol and Drug Study Group  34(3): 8-11.

1998

David Himmelgreen, Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Sofia Segural-Millan, Nancy Romero- Daza, Michaela Tranasescu and Merrill Singer. A Comparison of the Nutritional Status and Food Security of Drug-Using and Non-Drug-Using Hispanic Women in Hartford, Connecticut.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 107:351-361.

Merrill Singer, Hanteng Dai, Margaret Weeks and Dorca Malave.  AIDS Risk Perception among Women Drug Users in Hartford, CT.  Women and Health 27(1/2):67-85.

Margaret Weeks, David Himmelgreen, Merrill Singer, Phil Richmond and Nancy Romero-Daza.  Drug Use Patterns of Substance Abusing Women: Implications for Treatment Providers.  Drugs and Society 13(1/2):35-61.

Sherry Deren, Mark Beardsley, Susan Coyle and Merrill Singer.  HIV Serostatus and Risk Behaviors in a Multi-Site Sample of Drug Users.  Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 30(3):239-246.

David Himmelgreen and Merrill Singer.  HIV, AIDS, and Other Risks:  Findings from a Multisite Study.  American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 24(2):187-197.

Nancy Romero-Daza, Margaret Weeks, and Merrill Singer.  Much More Than HIV:  The Reality of Life on the Streets for Drug-Using Sex Workers in Inner City Hartford.  International Quarterly of Community Health Education 18(1):107-119.

Merrill Singer, Hans Baer, Sheryl Horowitz, Glenn Scott and Beth Weinstein.  Pharmacy Access to Syringes among Injection Drug Users: Follow-Up Findings from Hartford, CT.  Public Health Reports 113 (Supplement 1):81-89.

Rafael Perez-Escamilla, David Himmelgreen, Sofia Segura-Perez, Anir Gonzalez, Ann M. Ferris, Grace Damio, Angela Bermudez-Vega. Prenatal and Perinatal Factors Associated with Breast-Feeding Initiation Among Inner-City Puerto Rican Women.  Journal of the American Dietetic Association 98(6):657-663.

Margaret Weeks, Maryland Grier, Nancy Romero-Daza, Mary Puglisi and Merrill Singer.  Streets, Drugs, and the Economy of Sex in the Age of AIDS.  Women and Health 27(1/2):205-228.

Merrill Singer.  The Development of Critical Medical Anthropology: Implications for Biological Anthropology.  In: Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology.  Alan Goodman and Thomas Leatherman, eds., pp. 93-123.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Merrill Singer, David Himmelgreen, Bob Dushay and Margaret Weeks. Variation in Drug Injection Frequency Among Out-of-Treatment Drug Users: a National Study.  American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 24(2)321-341.

Merrill Singer, Sheryl Horowitz, Kim Radda and Margaret Weeks.  Syringe Exchange Programs are Effective.  Anthropology Newsletter 39(5):45 & 47.

1997

Merrill Singer, David Himmelgreen, Margaret Weeks, Kim Radda and Rolando Martinez.  Changing the Environment of AIDS Risk: Findings on Syringe Exchange and Pharmacy Sale of Syringes in Hartford, CT.  Medical Anthropology 18(1):107-130.

Merrill Singer.  Needle Exchange and AIDS Prevention:  Controversies, Policies and Research.  Medical Anthropology 18(1):1-12.

Robert Heimer, Ricky Bluthenthal, Merrill Singer and Kaveh Khoshnood.  Structural Impediments to Operational Syringe Exchange Programs.  AIDS and Public Policy Journal 11(4):169-184.

Merrill Singer.  Forging a Political Economy of AIDS.  The Political Economy of AIDS.  Merrill Singer, ed., pp. 3-32.  Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company.

Merrill Singer.  Articulating Personal Experience and Political Economy in the AIDS Epidemic:  The Case of Carlos Torres. The Political Economy of AIDS.  Merrill Singer, ed., pp. 61-74.  Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company.

1996

Merrill Singer. A Dose of Drugs, A Touch of Violence, A Case of AIDS: Conceptualizing the SAVA Syndemic.  Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 24(2):99-110.

Merrill Singer and Luis Marxuach-Rodriquez.  Applying Anthropology to the Prevention of AIDS: The Latino Gay Men's Health Project.  Human Organization 55(2):141-148.

Margaret Weeks, David Himmelgreen, Merrill Singer, Stephen Woolley, Nancy Romero-Daza and Maryland Grier. Community-based AIDS Prevention: Preliminary Outcomes of a Program for African American and Latino Injection Drug Users. Journal of Drug Issues 26(3):561-590.

Merrill Singer.  Farewell to Adaptationalism: Unnatural Selection and the Politics of Biology.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly 10(4):496-515.

Margaret Weeks, Merrill Singer, Maryland Grier and Jean Schensul.  Gender Relations, Sexuality, and AIDS Risk among African American and Latina Women.  In: Gender and Health: An International Perspective, pp. 338-370. Carol Sargent and Caroline Brettell, eds.  NJ: Prentice Hall.

Merrill Singer and Margaret Weeks.  Preventing AIDS in Communities of Color: Anthropology and Social Prevention.  Human Organization 55(4):488-492.

Merrill Singer.  The Evolution of AIDS Work in a Puerto Rican Community Organization.  Human Organization 55(1):67-75.

Merrill Singer, Richard NeedlePreventing AIDS among Drug Users:  Evaluating Efficacy.  Journal of Drug Issues 26(3): 521-524.

David Himmelgreen.  Food Insecurity at Home: Considerations for Applied Research in the U.S.  CommuNicAtor 19(2):8-12.

1995

Margaret Weeks, Jean Schensul, Sunyna Williams, Merrill Singer, and Maryland Grier.  AIDS Prevention for African American and Latina Women: Building Culturally and Gender Appropriate Intervention.  AIDS Education and Prevention 7(3): 251-263.

Merrill SingerBeyond the Ivory Tower: Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 9(1): 80-106. Reprinted in Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, Peter Brown (ed.), Mayfield Publishing Co., 1997.

Merrill Singer, Margaret Weeks and David Himmelgreen.  Sale and Exchange of Syringes (letter to the editor).  Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease Syndromes and Human Retrovirology 10: 104.

Merrill Singer.  Providing Substance Abuse Treatment to Puerto Rican Clients Living in the Continental United StatesIn: Substance Abuse Treatment in the Era of AIDS, Vol. II, pp. 93-142.  Omowale Amuleru-Marshall, ed.  Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.

Merrill Singer, Nancy Romero-Daza, Margaret Weeks and Pushpinder Pelia.  Ethnography and the Evaluation of Needle Exchange in the Prevention of HIV Transmission.  In: Qualitative Methods in Drug Abuse and HIV Research. Elizabeth Lambert, Rebecca Ashery and Richard Needle, eds., pp. 231-257. National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Monographs No. 157.  Washington, D.C.: National Institute on Drug Abuse.

David Himmelgreen. Hunger in Our Own Backyard: Anthropological Contributions to Nutrition Policy in Inner Cities. Anthropology Newsletter 36(6):22, 1995

1994

Merrill Singer.  AIDS and the Health Crisis of the U.S. Urban Poor: The Perspective of Critical Medical Anthropology. Social Science and Medicine 39(7): 931-948.

Merrill Singer.  Community Centered Praxis: Toward an Alternative Nondominative Applied Anthropology. Human Organization 53(4): 336-344.

Merrill SingerThe Politics of AIDS: Introduction.  Social Science and Medicine 38(10): 1321-1324.

1993

Merrill Singer and Zhongke Jia.  AIDS and Puerto Rican Injection Drug Users in the United States.  In: Handbook on Risk of AIDS: Injection Drug Users and Sexual Partners. Edited by Barry Brown and George Beschner, pp. 227-255.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Margaret Weeks, Merrill Singer, Maryland Grier, Josephine Hunte-Marrow and Charlyn Haughton.  AIDS Prevention and the African American Injection Drug User.  Transforming Anthropology 4(1-2): 39-51.

Margaret Weeks, Merrill Singer and Jean Schensul.  Anthropology and Culturally Targeted AIDS Prevention.  Practicing Anthropology 15(4):17-20.

Merrill Singer, William Gonzalez, Evelyn Vega, Ivonne Centeno and Lani Davison.  Implementing a Community Based AIDS Prevention Program for Puerto Ricans: The Comunidad y Responsibilidad Project.  In: AIDS Prevention and Services: Community Based Research.  Edited by Johannes P. Van Vugt. South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey Press.

Merrill Singer.  Knowledge for Use: Anthropology and Community-Centered Substance Abuse Research.  Social Science and Medicine 37(1):15-26.

Merrill Singer, Candida Flores, Lani Davison, William Gonzalez.  Reaching Minority Women:  AIDS Prevention for Latinas.  Practicing Anthropology 15(4):21-24.

Merrill SingerA Rejoinder to Wiley's Critique of Critical Medical Anthropology.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly  7(2):185-191.

1992

Merrill Singer, Zhongke Jia, Jean J. Schensul, Margaret Weeks and J. Bryan Page.  AIDS and the IV Drug User: The Local Context in Prevention Efforts. Medical Anthropology 14: 285-306.

Merrill Singer.  AIDS and U.S. Ethnic Minorities: The Crisis and Alternative Anthropological Responses.  Human Organization 51(1): 89-95.

Merrill Singer and Charlene SnipesGenerations of Suffering: Experiences of a Pregnancy and Substance Abuse Treatment Program.  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 3(1): 325-239.

Ralph Bolton and Merrill Singer.  Introduction:  Rethinking HIV Prevention--Critical Assessments of the Context and Delivery of AIDS Risk Reduction Messages.  Medical Anthropology 14: 2-4.

Merrill SingerThe Application of Theory in Medical Anthropology: An Introduction.  Medical Anthropology 14: 1-8.

Gloria Weismann and the National AIDS Research Consortium (including Merrill Singer).  AIDS Prevention for Women at Risk: Experience from a National Demonstration Research Program.  The Journal of Primary Prevention  12(1): 49-63.

Merrill Singer, Freddie Valentin, Hans Baer, Zhongke Jia.  Why Does Juan Garcia Have a Drinking Problem?:  The Perspective of Critical Medical Anthropology.  Medical Anthropology  14(1): 77-108. 

* Reprinted in Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, Peter Brown (ed.), Mayfield Publishing Co., 1997.

Merrill Singer.  Matching Programs to Populations in Substance Abuse Treatment.  Addictions Nursing Network  4(2): 33-43.

Zhongke Jia, Merrill Singer, Nancy Lichtenberg.  Sociodemographic Characteristics and Risk Behaviors of Injection Drug Users and Sexual Partners Who Fail to Return for HIV Test Results.  Community-Based AIDS Prevention Among Intravenous Drug Users and Their Sexual Partners: The Many Faces of HIV Disease.  Bethesda, MD: NOVA Research Company.

Margaret Weeks, Maryland Grier, Josephine Hunte-Marrow, Waleska Perez, Mia Sanks, Merrill Singer.  Working Together to Make a Difference: A Consortium Model for Culturally Appropriate AIDS Intervention.  Community Based AIDS Prevention Among Intravenous Drug Users and Their Sexual Partners: The Many Faces of HIV Disease.  Bethesda, MD:  NOVA Research Company.

Charlyn Haughton, Mia Sanks, Waleska Perez, Josephine Hunte-Marrow and Merrill Singer.  Culturally Appropriate Intervention: "Doin' the Right Thang".  Community Based AIDS Prevention Among Intravenous Drug Users and Their Sexual Partners:  The Many Faces of HIV Disease.  Bethesda, MD:  NOVA Research Company.

Merrill Singer.  Biomedicine and the Political Economy of Science.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly 6(4): 400-403.

1991

Merrill Singer.  Confronting the AIDS Epidemic Among IV Drug Users:  Does Ethnic Culture Matter?  AIDS Education and Prevention 3(3): 258-283.

Merrill Singer, Candida Flores, Lani Davison, Georgine Burke, Zaida Castillo.  Puerto Rican Community Mobilizing in Response to the AIDS Crisis.  Human Organization  50(1): 73-81.

Merrill Singer, Ray Irizarry, Jean J. Schensul.  Needle Access as an AIDS Prevention Strategy for IV Drug Users:  A Research Perspective.  Human Organization.  50(2): 142-153. 

* Reprinted in Taking Sides:  Clashing Views on Controversial Issues on Drugs and Society.  Cortland, NY: Dushkin Publising Group, 1993. *

 * Reprinted in The American Drug Scene.  James Inciardi and K. McElrath, eds.  CA: Roxbury Publishing Co., 1995.  Reprinted in The Applied Anthropology Reader.  James H. McDonald, editor.  Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon Publishers, 2002.

Merrill Singer, Peggy Owens, Lydia Reyes.  Culturally Appropriate AIDS Prevention for HIV Drug Users and their Sexual Partners.  Community Based AIDS Prevention: Studies of Intravenous Drug Users and their Sexual Partners.  pp. 234-241.  Washington, D.C.:  US Department of Health and Human Services.

Zhongke Jia and Merrill Singer.  Sociodemographic Characteristics of AIDS Transmission in the USA.  Minority Population Studies  (Peoples Republic of China) 2:1-7.

Gloria Weissman and the National AIDS Research Consortium (including Merrill Singer).  Drug Use and Sexual Behaviors Among Sex Partners of Injecting-Drug Users--United Sates, 1988-1990.  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 40(49): 855-860.

1990

Merrill Singer, Hans Baer, Ellen Lazarus.  Critical Medical Anthropology in QuestionSocial Science and Medicine 30: V-VII.

Merrill Singer.  Reinventing Medical Anthropology: Toward a Critical Realignment.  Social Science and Medicine 30: 179-187.

Merrill Singer.  Postmodernism and Medical Anthropology: Words of Caution.  Medical Anthropology 12(3): 289-304.

Merrill Singer, Candida Flores, Lani Davison, Georgine Burke, Zaida Castillo, Kelley Scalon, Migdalia Rivera.  SIDA: The Economic, Social, and Cultural Context of AIDS among Latinos.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly 4:72-114.

Merrill Singer, Zaida Castillo, Lani Davison, Candida Flores.  Owning AIDS:  The Latino Organizations and the AIDS Epidemic.  Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science 12(2): 196-211.

Ro Nesmith and the National AIDS Research Consortium (including Merrill Singer).  Risk Behaviors for HIV Transmission among Intravenous-Drug Users Not in Drug Treatment - United States, 1987-1989.  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 39(16): 273-276.

Merrill Singer.  Organizational Culture in a Community-Based Health Organization:  The Hispanic Health Council.  Anthropology of Work Review 11(3): 7-12.

Merrill Singer.  Another Perspective on Advocacy.  Current Anthropology (Discussion and Criticism Section) 31(5): 548-549.

Candida Flores, Lani Davison, Enid Mercedes Rey, Migdalia Rivera, Maria Serrano. La Mujer Puertorrique–a, Su Cuerpo, y Su Lucha por La Vida: Experiences with Empowerment in Hartford, Connecticut. In: From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement. M. Fried, ed., pp 221-232. Boston, MA, South End Press.

1989

Merrill Singer.  The Limitations of Medical Ecology: The Concept of Adaptation in the Context of Social Stratification and Social Transformation.  Medical Anthropology 10(4): 218-229.

Merrill Singer.  The Coming of Age of Critical Medical Anthropology.  Social Science and Medicine 28(11): 1193-1203.

Merrill Singer, Roberto Garcia.  Becoming a Puerto Rican Espiritista: Life History of a Female Healer.  In: Women as Healers.  Edited by Carol Shepherd McClain, pp. 157-185, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

AIDS Community Research Group. ÒAIDS: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior in HartfordÕs NeighborhoodsÓ Hispanic Health Council Publication AI-6.

1988

Merrill Singer, Lani Davison, Gina GerdesCulture, Critical Theory, and Reproductive Illness Behavior in Haiti.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2: 370-385.

1987

Merrill Singer.  Cure, Care and Control:  An Ectopic Encounter with Biomedical Obstetrics.  In: Encounter with Biomedicine: Case Studies in Medical Anthropology.  Edited by Hans Baer, pp. 249-265.  New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.

1986

Merrill Singer.  Toward a Political Economy of Alcoholism: The Missing Link in the Anthropology of Drinking.  Social Science and Medicine  23(2): 113-130. 

* Reprinted (Spanish) in Nueva Antropolog’a (Mexico) 10(34): 9-54, 1988.

Hans Baer, Merrill Singer, John Johnsen.  Introduction:  Toward a Critical Medical Anthropology.  Social Science and Medicine 23(2): 95-98.

Merrill Singer.  The Emergence of a Critical Medical Anthropology.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17(5): 128-129.

Merrill Singer.  Comment on "Cultural Studies on Drinking and Drinking Problems:  An Introduction" by Pekka Sulkunen.  In: Cultural Studies on Drinking and Drinking Problems.  Edited by Pirjo Paakkanen and Pekka Sulkunen, pp. 18-25.  Helsinki, Finland:  Reports from the Social Research Institute of Alcohol Studies, No. 176.

Merrill Singer.  Saying What You Mean and Meaning What You Say About Alcohol.  Drinking and Drug Practices Surveyor 21: 24-25.

1985

Jean J. Schensul.  Introduction: Collaborative Research and Social Action.  American Behavioral Scientist 29(2):131-133.

Jean J. Schensul, Maria Borrero and Roberto Garcia.  Applying Ethnography in Educational Change.  Anthropology and Education Quarterly 16(2):149-164.

Jean J. Schensul. Introduction: Collaborative Research and Social Policy. In: Collaborative Research and Social Policy: Anthropology in Action. Donald Stull and Jean J. Schensul, eds. Westview Press.

Jean J. Schensul.  Urban Comadronas. In: Collaborative Research and Social Policy: Anthropology in Action. Donald Stull and Jean J. Schensul, eds.  Westview Press.

Merrill Singer, Lani Davison and Fuat Yalin.  Alcohol Use and Abuse Among Hispanic Adolescents. Conference Proceeding edited, from papers delivered at conference on Alcohol Use and Abuse Among Adolescents: State of Knowledge, State of Need.  Hispanic Health Council Publication CD-2.

AIDS Community Research Group. ÒAIDS: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Risk Behavior in an Ethnically Mixed Urban Neighborhood CommunityÓ Hispanic Health Council Publication MI-1.

1984

Merrill Singer, Roberto Garcia.  La Guerison Spirite dans une Communaute'Portoricaine.  Mouvements Religieux (France) 45: 3-7.

Merrill Singer.  An Anti-Fable: The Anthropologist and the Snake.  Practicing Anthropology.  6(3-4): 3.  * Reprinted in Classics of Practicing Anthropology:  1978-1998, Patricia Higgins, Anthony Paredes, eds.  Oklahoma City, OK:  Society for Applied Anthropology, 1999.

Merrill Singer, Maria Borrero.  Indigenous Treatment for Alcoholism: The Case of Puerto Rican Spiritism.  Medical Anthropology 8(4): 246-272.

Merrill Singer.  Spiritual Healing and Family Therapy: Common Approaches to the Treatment of Alcoholism.  Family Therapy 9(2): 155-162.

1982

Maria Gonzalez, L. Victoria Barrera, Peter Guarnaccia, Stephen L. Schensul.  "La Operaci—n":  An Analysis of Sterilization in a Puerto Rican Community in Connecticut.  Work, Family and Health Latina Women in Transition  6: 47-61.

Jeffrey Backstrand and Stephen L. Schensul. Co-evolution in Outlying Ethnic Communities: The Puerto Ricans in Hartford.  Urban Anthropology 11(1):9-38.

Maria Borrero, Jean J. Schensuul and Robert Garcia.  Research Based Training for Organization Change.  Urban Anthropology 11(1):9-38.

Pertti J. Pelto, Maria Roman and Nelson Liriano.  Family Structures in an Urban Puerto Rican Community.  Urban Anthropology 11(1):39-58.

Jean Schensul, Iris Nieves and Maria D. Martinez.  The Crisis Event in the Puerto Rican Community.  Urban Anthropology 11(1):1-8.

Stephen L. Schensul and Maria Borrero.  Introduction: The Hispanic Health Council.  Urban Anthropology 11(1):1-8.

Stephen L. Schensul and Jean Schensul.  Helping Resource Use in Puerto Rican Community.  Urban Anthropology 11(1):59-80.

Stephen L. Schensul, Maria Borrero, Victoria Barrera, Jeffrey Backstrand and Peter Guarnaccia.  A Model of Fertility Control in a Puerto Rican Community.  Urban Anthropology 11(1):81-100.

 
 
 
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