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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.
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Anne Kveim Lie is Professor of Medical History, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo.Jeremy A. Greene is William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.Warwick Anderson is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance, and Ethics in Health, Anthropology in the School of Social and Political Sciences and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.
Riassunto
How can we improve public health to tackle the problems of growing health inequality and ecological injustice? This ground-breaking collection relocates the roots of social medicine in the Global South, offering valuable tools for revitalizing the field. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Prefazione
This collection relocates the roots of social medicine globally, offering valuable tools for revitalizing and decolonizing the field.
