Proseminar in Social Medicine

Harvard HMS

Social Medicine is a transdisciplinary field of study and practice that uses insights from the interpretive social sciences and humanities to improve medical theory and the delivery of health care. This course will explore the historical foundations of social medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and North America. It will then examine case studies of social medicine in the contemporary world that confront the social, political, economic, and cultural…