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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. As medical anthropologist Lance Gravlee observed, syndemics has achieved a broader reach than most anthropological ideas. It is a syndemic.

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The Integration of Family Bedside Care in Zambian Public Hospitals

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Through archival research at the Melville J. Informal care, done by families, then became more necessary, and hospitals relied more upon family caregivers to share the work of formal healthcare staff, thus reshaping relationships and roles in Zambian hospitals. Herskovits Library of African Studies.