Students, teachers, practitioners and policy advocates will value this textbook of social medicine, which goes beyond the usual approaches of texts in public health, medical sociology and health policy, showing how principles based on solidarity and mutual aid have enabled people to construct health-promoting social conditions.
Students, teachers, practitioners and policy advocates will value this textbook of social medicine, which goes beyond the usual approaches of texts in public health, medical sociology and health policy, showing how principles based on solidarity and mutual aid have enabled people to construct health-promoting social conditions.
Howard Waitzkin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of New Mexico and practices internal medicine part time in New Mexico and Illinois. For many years he has been active in struggles focusing on social medicine in the United States and Latin America. He is author and coordinator with the Working Group for Health beyond Capitalism of Health Care under the Knife: Moving beyond Capitalism for Our Health (2018), and author of Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire (2011), among other books. Alina Pérez is a community-based physician at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford, Massachusetts. A graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, she completed her residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Harvard-Affiliated Medical Center in Boston. She has conducted research on health policy and is pursuing interests in global health and social medicine. Matthew Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Social Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. As a family physician working in the Bronx, New York, he is a core faculty member of the Montefiore Residency Program in Social Medicine. He is founder and co-editor of the bilingual online journal Social Medicine/Medicina Social.
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Table of Contents Preface, Acknowledgments 1. What Is Social Medicine? 2. One and a Half Centuries of Forgetting and Remembering the Social Origins of Illness 3. The Social Determination of Illness, Part 1: Health and Social Contradictions 4. The Social Determination of Illness, Part 2: Inequality, Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender 5. Social Medicine in the United States 6. Health and Empire, Part 1: Empire's Historical Health Component 7. Health and Empire, Part 2: Resisting Empire, Building an Alternative Future in Medicine and Public Health 8. Social Medicine in Latin America 9. Social Medicine and the Micro-Politics of Medical Encounters 10. Health Praxis, Reform, and Sociomedical Activism Appendix: Organizations and Resources in Social Medicine Index
Table of Contents Preface, Acknowledgments 1. What Is Social Medicine? 2. One and a Half Centuries of Forgetting and Remembering the Social Origins of Illness 3. The Social Determination of Illness, Part 1: Health and Social Contradictions 4. The Social Determination of Illness, Part 2: Inequality, Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender 5. Social Medicine in the United States 6. Health and Empire, Part 1: Empire's Historical Health Component 7. Health and Empire, Part 2: Resisting Empire, Building an Alternative Future in Medicine and Public Health 8. Social Medicine in Latin America 9. Social Medicine and the Micro-Politics of Medical Encounters 10. Health Praxis, Reform, and Sociomedical Activism Appendix: Organizations and Resources in Social Medicine Index
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