Full Description
In a world of growing health inequity and ecological injustice, how do we revitalize medicine and public health to tackle new problems? This groundbreaking collection draws together case studies of social medicine in the Global South, radically shifting our understanding of social science in healthcare. Looking beyond a narrative originating in nineteenth-century Europe, a team of expert contributors explores a far broader set of roots and branches, with nodes in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Oceania, the Middle East, and Asia. This plural approach reframes and decolonizes the study of social medicine, highlighting connections to social justice and health equity, social science and state formation, bottom-up community initiatives, grassroots movements, and an array of revolutionary sensibilities. As a truly global history, this book offers a more usable past to imagine a new politics of social medicine for medical professionals and healthcare workers worldwide. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Contents
Introduction: the many lives and afterlives of social medicine Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene and Anne Kveim Lie; Decentering Rudolf Virchow: the making of a social medicine pioneer Carsten Timmermann; 2. Social medicine in the Arab world: colonial legacies and postcolonial praxis Joelle M. Abi-Rached and Lidia Helou; 3. Latin American social medicine, across the waves Eric D. Carter; 4. Imperial social medicine in Southeast Asia: the Bandung Intergovernmental Conference on Rural Hygiene Laurence Monnais and Hans Pols; 5. Social and socialist: Ideas of health, medicine and society across the Iron Curtain Dora Vargha; 6. Social medicine in social democracy Anne Kveim Lie and Per Haave; 7. American social medicine in the shadow of socialized medicine Jeremy A. Greene, Scott H. Podolsky and David S. Jones; 8. A 'counter-hegemonic' social medicine: leftist physicians during the Latin American Cold War Sebastian Fonseca; 9. The African roots of community oriented primary care Abigail H. Neely; 10. Barefoot doctors and social medicine in China Xiaoping Fang; 11. From 'Saude Publica' to 'Medicina Social' to 'Saude Coletiva': the emergence of a transepistemic arena in Brazil Kenneth Rochel de Camargo; 12. Settler colonial social medicine and community health: Australasian adaptations, reinventions, and denials Warwick Anderson, James Dunk and Connie Musolino; 13. Social medicine beyond colonial rule: the medical field units of Ghana, 1930-2000 David Bannister; 14. Changing avatars of social medicine in the Indian Subcontinent Rama V. Baru; 15. Social medicine, otherwise: Cuban health (care) as political praxis P. Sean Brotherton; Afterword: struggling with and for social medicine Anne-Emanuelle Birn; Afterword: the future(s) of social medicine Helena Hansen.
