Author: Sydney Ross Singer
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Website: http://www.selfstudycenter.org/about.htm
Sydney Ross Singer received a B.S. in biology from the University of Utah in 1979. He then spent two years in the biochemistry Ph.D. program at Duke University, followed by another two years in the anthropology Ph.D. program at Duke University. He received a Master’s Degree. He then attended the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, Texas on a full academic scholarship, where he spent one year in the medical humanities Ph.D. program, and received an additional two years training in medical school.
In 1991, he and his wife Soma Grismaijer co-founded the Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease. Their first project was a crusade to inform the public of the hazards of medicine and how to prevent them. Following their research into the cause of breast cancer, they wrote Dressed to Kill (1995).
Currently, they are spearheading an international campaign to educate the public about the hazards of flat sleeping. In addition, the SELF STUDY CENTER helps people practice health self-care by adopting certain lifestyle changes.
