The Department of Social Medicine is committed to teaching, research, and service that addresses the social dimensions of health, illness, and doctoring. Our department, housed within the UNC School of Medicine, is unique in its disciplinary diversity. Social Medicine faculty encompass an extraordinary range of fields in the humanities, social sciences, and clinical medicine.
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4 days ago
“Black Trans Lives Matter: Understanding and Addressing Embodied Inequalities” is now available on the Carolina Population Center
Tonia Poteat, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine, talk on “Black Trans Lives Matter: Understanding and Addressing Embodied Inequalities” is now available on the Carolina Population Center YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th04QgkslhE
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1 week ago
Oberlander Interviewed by BBC World Service on US Health Reform
Jonathan Oberlander, Professor and Chair of Social Medicine, and Professor of Health Policy & Management, was interviewed by the BBC program Witness History about the history of health care reform in the United States. Oberlander discussed the defeat of President Harry Truman’s national health insurance plan in the 1940s, the political obstacles to reform, and …
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1 month ago
Raul Necochea, co-editor of new book, Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
Buenos Aires psychoanalysts resisting imperialism. Brazilian parasitologists embracing communism as an antidote to rural misery. Nicaraguan revolutionaries welcoming Cuban health cooperation. Chilean public health reformers gauging domestic approaches against their Soviet and Western counterparts. As explored in Peripheral Nerve, these and accompanying accounts problematize existing understandings of how the Cold War unfolded in Latin America generally …
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2 months ago
With Pandemic Information Overload How Can We Tell What is Real? Terrence Holt on Common Distortions and False Equivalencies
Terrence Holt publishes in Literary Hub, With Pandemic Information Overload How Can We Tell What is Real? We know next to nothing. That’s how we feel. SARS-CoV-19, or “the novel coronavirus,” the pathogen responsible for this pandemic, is a strikingly unusual beast, capable of wreaking a bewildering variety of harms on the human body, ten …
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