Reimagining Social Medicine From The South

Author : Abigail H. Neely
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781478021582

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Reimagining Social Medicine from the South by Abigail H. Neely Pdf

In Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, Abigail H. Neely explores social medicine's possibilities and limitations at one of its most important origin sites: the Pholela Community Health Centre (PCHC) in South Africa. The PCHC's focus on medical and social factors of health yielded remarkable success. And yet South Africa's systemic racial inequality hindered health center work, and witchcraft illnesses challenged a program rooted in the sciences. To understand Pholela's successes and failures, Neely interrogates the “social” in social medicine. She makes clear that the social sciences the PCHC used failed to account for the roles that Pholela's residents and their environment played in the development and success of its program. At the same time, the PCHC's reliance on biomedicine prevented it from recognizing the impact on health of witchcraft illnesses and the social relationships from which they emerged. By rewriting the story of social medicine from Pholela, Neely challenges global health practitioners to recognize the multiple worlds and actors that shape health and healing in Africa and beyond.

Author : Paul Farmer,Arthur Kleinman,Jim Kim,Matthew Basilico
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520271999

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Reimagining Global Health by Paul Farmer,Arthur Kleinman,Jim Kim,Matthew Basilico Pdf

Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health. Insisting on an approach that is historically deep and geographically broad, the authors underline the importance of a transdisciplinary approach, and offer a highly readable distillation of several historical and ethnographic perspectives of contemporary global health problems. The case studies presented throughout Reimagining Global Health bring together ethnographic, theoretical, and historical perspectives into a wholly new and exciting investigation of global health. The interdisciplinary approach outlined in this text should prove useful not only in schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, but also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, sociology, political economy, and history, among others.

Author : Eric D. Carter
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469674469

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In Pursuit of Health Equity by Eric D. Carter Pdf

Throughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized for its critical perspectives on mainstream understandings of health and for its progressive policy achievements. Nevertheless, it has been an elusive subject: hard to define, with puzzling historical discontinuities and misconceptions about its origins. Drawing on a vast archive and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric D. Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day. While maintaining a consistent focus on health equity, social medicine has evolved with changing conditions in the region. Carter shows how it shaped early Latin American welfare states, declined with the dominance of midcentury technocratic health planning, resurged in the 1970s in solidarity against authoritarian regimes, and later resisted neoliberal reforms of the health sector. He centers socialist and anarchist doctors, political exiles, intellectuals, populist leaders, and rebellious technocrats from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and other countries who responded to and shaped a dynamic political environment around health equity. The lessons from this history will inform new thinking about how to achieve health equity in the twenty-first century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520297852

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Vulnerable Witness by Anonim Pdf

Scholars and practitioners who witness violence and loss in human, animal, and ecological contexts are expected to have no emotional connection to the subjects they study. Yet is this possible? Following feminist traditions, Vulnerable Witness centers the researcher and challenges readers to reflect on how grieving is part of the research process and, by extension, is a political act. Through thirteen reflective essays the book theorizes the role of grief in the doing of research—from methodological choices, fieldwork and analysis, engagement with individuals, and places of study to the manner in which scholars write and talk about their subjects. Combining personal stories from early career scholars, advocates, and senior faculty, the book shares a breadth of emotional engagement at various career stages and explores the transformative possibilities that emerge from being enmeshed with one's own research.

Author : Wendy Harcourt,Ana Agostino,Rebecca Elmhirst,Marlene Gómez,Panagiota Kotsila
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031209284

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Contours of Feminist Political Ecology by Wendy Harcourt,Ana Agostino,Rebecca Elmhirst,Marlene Gómez,Panagiota Kotsila Pdf

This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the field. As Professor Lyla Mehta says in her Foreword, the book is "foregrounding multiple ways of knowing and being, thus enabling new conceptions of politics, justice and alternatives to dominant, capitalist development trajectories". In an innovative methodological twist, the edited book engages the reader in conversations that have emerged from the multi-sited and cross-generational dialogues of the Well-Being Ecology Gender cOmmunities (WEGO) network over the last four years. The conversations explore topics that range from climate change and extractivism, to body politics and health, degrowth, care and community well-being. The authors reflect on their collective learning process as they map out the new directions of FPE research and analysis. The chapters highlight WEGO transnational/transdisciplinary conversations with local communities, social movements and different academic spaces. The book foregrounds the ethics of doing feminist work inside and outside academe and brings to life the importance of doing reflexive research aware of situated historical and contemporary geographical contours of power.

Author : Henri Lustiger-Thaler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351905329

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Reimagining Social Movements by Henri Lustiger-Thaler Pdf

The social scientific study of social movements remains largely shaped by categories, concepts and debates that emerged in North Atlantic societies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, namely resource mobilization, framing, collective identity, and new social movements. It is now, however, increasingly clear that we are experiencing a profound period of social transformation associated with online interactivity, informationalization and globalization. Written by leading experts from around the world, the chapters in this book explore emerging forms of movement and action not only in terms of the industrialized countries of the North Atlantic, but recognizes the importance of globalizing forms of action and culture emerging from other continents and societies. This is the first book to bring together key authors exploring this transformation in terms of action, culture and movements. It not only engages with critical transformations in the nature of collective action, but also makes a significant contribution to the globalizing of sociology.

Author : Veit Erlmann
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478023593

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Lion's Share by Veit Erlmann Pdf

In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious revision of its intellectual property system. In Lion’s Share Veit Erlmann traces the role of copyright law in this process and its impact on the South African music industry. Although the South African government tied the reform to its postapartheid agenda of redistributive justice and a turn to a postindustrial knowledge economy, Erlmann shows how the persistence of structural racism and Euro-modernist conceptions of copyright threaten the viability of the reform project. In case studies ranging from antipiracy police raids and the crafting of legislation to protect indigenous expressive practices to the landmark lawsuit against Disney for its appropriation of Solomon Linda’s song "Mbube" for its hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” from The Lion King, Erlmann follows the intricacies of musical copyright through the criminal justice system, parliamentary committees, and the offices of a music licensing and royalty organization. Throughout, he demonstrates how copyright law is inextricably entwined with race, popular music, postcolonial governance, indigenous rights, and the struggle to create a more equitable society.

Author : Julie Livingston
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822353423

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Improvising Medicine by Julie Livingston Pdf

Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.

Author : Howard Waitzkin,Alina Pérez,Matt Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134869077

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Social Medicine and the Coming Transformation by Howard Waitzkin,Alina Pérez,Matt Anderson Pdf

Social medicine, starting two centuries ago, has shown that social conditions affect health and illness more than biology does, and social change affects the outcomes of health and illness more than health services do. Understanding and exposing sickness-generating structures in society helps us change them. This first book providing a critical introduction to social medicine sheds light on an increasingly important field. The authors draw on examples worldwide to show how principles based on solidarity and mutual aid have enabled people to participate collaboratively to construct health-promoting social conditions. The book offers vital information and analysis to enhance our understanding regarding the promotion of health through social and individual means; the micro-politics of medical encounters; the social determination of illness; the influences of racism, class, gender, and ethnicity on health; health and empire; and health praxis, reform, and sociomedical activism. Illustrations are included throughout the book to convey these key themes and important issues, as well as on Routledge’s webpage for the book, under the Support Materials tab. The authors offer compelling ways to understand and to change the social dimensions of health and health care. Students, teachers, practitioners, activists, policy makers, and people concerned about health and health care will value this book, which goes beyond the usual approaches of texts in public health, medical sociology, health economics, and health policy.

Author : Jonathan Oberlander,Mara Buchbinder,Larry R. Churchill,Sue E. Estroff,Nancy M. P. King,Barry F. Saunders,Ronald P. Strauss,Rebecca L. Walker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781478004363

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The Social Medicine Reader, Volume II, Third Edition by Jonathan Oberlander,Mara Buchbinder,Larry R. Churchill,Sue E. Estroff,Nancy M. P. King,Barry F. Saunders,Ronald P. Strauss,Rebecca L. Walker Pdf

The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.

Author : Susan E. Bell,Anne E. Figert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317643630

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Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics by Susan E. Bell,Anne E. Figert Pdf

In recent years medicalization, the process of making something medical, has gained considerable ground and a position in everyday discourse. In this multidisciplinary collection of original essays, the authors expertly consider how issues around medicalization have developed, ways in which it is changing, and the potential shapes it will take in the future. They develop a unique argument that medicalization, biomedicalization, pharmaceuticalization and geneticization are related and co-evolving processes, present throughout the globe. This is an ideal addition to anthropology, sociology and STS courses about medicine and health.

Author : Jonathan Oberlander,Mara Buchbinder,Larry R. Churchill,Sue E. Estroff,Nancy M. P. King,Barry F. Saunders,Ronald P. Strauss,Rebecca L. Walker
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1478002816

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The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition by Jonathan Oberlander,Mara Buchbinder,Larry R. Churchill,Sue E. Estroff,Nancy M. P. King,Barry F. Saunders,Ronald P. Strauss,Rebecca L. Walker Pdf

The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. Volume 1, Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine, contains essays, case studies, narratives, fiction, and poems that focus on the experiences of illness and of clinician-patient relationships. Among other topics the contributors examine the roles and training of professionals alongside the broader cultures of biomedicine; health care; experiences and decisions regarding death, dying, and struggling to live; and particular manifestations of injustice in the broader health system. The Reader is essential reading for all medical students, physicians, and health care providers.

Author : Karen Elizabeth Flint
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 9780821418499

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Healing Traditions by Karen Elizabeth Flint Pdf

Healing Traditions offers a historical perspective to the interactions between South Africa's traditional healers and biomedical practitioners. It provides an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa's healthcare challenges.

Author : Paul Farmer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520243262

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Pathologies of Power by Paul Farmer Pdf

"Pathologies of Power" uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of the poor is the most importanthuman rights struggle of our times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social medicine
ISBN : 0822335557

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The Social Medicine Reader by Anonim Pdf