Dept. of Social Medicine - UNC School of Medicine
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Welcome to the Department of Social Medicine
An interdisciplinary department with faculty from clinical medicine, public health, social science, and the humanities.
Social Medicine News
posted 2009 September 25 Jeffrey Sonis' study on the Khmer Rouge trials in JAMA
Jeffrey Sonis and colleagues publish national study of attitudes toward the Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia in JAMA.
see an interview with Dr Sonis >>
2009 September 9 A Report to the President and Congress on Health Care Reform
Physicians and Their Practices Under Health Care Reform, a Report commissioned by The Physicians Foundation, raises new questions about the role of socioeconomic determinants as they relate to access, quality, and cost of medical care in the United States. The Report was sent to the President and Congress in order to contribute to the national health care debate. George Sheldon, professor of Social Medicine and Surgery, served on the team that prepared the Report.
2009 September 9 New Book by Terrence Holt
Terrence Holt, research assistant professor of Social Medicine and clinical assistant professor of Geriatric Medicine, has published a new book, In the Valley of the Kings, a collection of short stories. Publisher's Weekly says in review, "... This collection, with its allusions to mythology and tragic conundrums, demands intelligence and rewards the reader with Borgesian riches.”
2009 September 1 Barry Saunders Wins SCA Prize
Barry Saunders, associate professor of Social Medicine, clinical assistant professorof Medicine & Family Medicine and author of CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting, was just announced as the winner of the Gregory Bateson Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA). According to the SCA website, "[T]he Bateson Prize looks to reward work that is theoretically rich, ethnographically grounded, and in the spirit of the tradition for which the SCA has been known--interdisciplinary, experimental, and innovative." The Bateson Prize will be awarded at the annual American Anthropological Association meeting.
read more at the Society for Cultural Anthropology >>
2009 August 16 Jonathan Oberlander on CBS
As the national debate over health care reform becomes increasingly heated, Jonathan Oberlander, associate professor of Social Medicine and associate professor of Health Policy & Management, explains the details of health care reform on CBS News.