Merrill Singer is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut; and Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention.
Pamela I. Erickson is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut.

A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.
* Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s
* Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology
* Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics