Medicine on a Larger Scale
Medicine on a Larger Scale
Jeremy A. Greene, Johns Hopkins University
Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney
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In a world of growing health inequity and ecological injustice, how do we revitalize medicine and public health to tackle new problems? This groundbreaking collection draws together case studies of social medicine in the Global South, radically shifting our understanding of social science in healthcare. Looking beyond a narrative originating in nineteenth-century Europe, a team of expert contributors explores a far broader set of roots and branches, with nodes in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Oceania, the Middle East, and Asia. This plural approach reframes and decolonizes the study of social medicine, highlighting connections to social justice and health equity, social science and state formation, bottom-up community initiatives, grassroots movements, and an array of revolutionary sensibilities. As a truly global history, this book offers a more usable past to imagine a new politics of social medicine for medical professionals and healthcare workers worldwide. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
- Locates the roots of social medicine in Latin America, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia
- Reframes and decolonizes social medicine and global health
- Provides tools that can be built into modern practice
- This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core
Reviews & endorsements
‘Medicine on a Larger Scale offers multiple visions of social medicine as an idea, field of research and teaching, form of practice, critique of health policy, and approach to the Planet’s problems. This intriguing and useful collection also places social medicine in a truly global context and gives voice to social medicine traditions form the South that are less well-known than the stories it also presents from Euro-American history. A step forward in imagining a counter-biomedicine that can better connect social suffering and healing with interpretive social science, post-colonial imaginings, and some of the more serious problems of the world. Impressive!’ Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University
‘This impressive and timely work brings together contributions from a wide range of scholars to illuminate the historical basis of social medicine. The contributors show us that the lessons are highly relevant to contemporary challenges and why reimagining social medicine in the light of current realities can help to address them.’ Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
‘This collection of essays is pivotal to understanding the historical urgency of global public health. The political visibility of that urgency is embedded in global histories of social medicine movements that asked what are the social determinants of population health in post-colonial worlds. Collectively these essays powerfully demonstrate the interrogative necessity of historical analysis in order to address crippling global inequalities in health, premature mortality and debilitating morbidities.’ Dorothy Porter, University of California, San Francisco
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May 2025Adobe eBook Reader
9781009428521
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: the many lives and afterlives of social medicine Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene and Anne Kveim Lie
- Decentering Rudolf Virchow: the making of a social medicine pioneer Carsten Timmermann
- 2. Social medicine in the Arab world: colonial legacies and postcolonial praxis Joelle M. Abi-Rached and Lidia Helou
- 3. Latin American social medicine, across the waves Eric D. Carter
- 4. Imperial social medicine in Southeast Asia: the Bandung Intergovernmental Conference on Rural Hygiene Laurence Monnais and Hans Pols
- 5. Social and socialist: Ideas of health, medicine and society across the Iron Curtain Dora Vargha
- 6. Social medicine in social democracy Anne Kveim Lie and Per Haave
- 7. American social medicine in the shadow of socialized medicine Jeremy A. Greene, Scott H. Podolsky and David S. Jones
- 8. A 'counter-hegemonic' social medicine: leftist physicians during the Latin American Cold War Sebastian Fonseca
- 9. The African roots of community oriented primary care Abigail H. Neely
- 10. Barefoot doctors and social medicine in China Xiaoping Fang
- 11. From 'Saude Publica' to 'Medicina Social' to 'Saude Coletiva': the emergence of a transepistemic arena in Brazil Kenneth Rochel de Camargo
- 12. Settler colonial social medicine and community health: Australasian adaptations, reinventions, and denials Warwick Anderson, James Dunk and Connie Musolino
- 13. Social medicine beyond colonial rule: the medical field units of Ghana, 1930–2000 David Bannister
- 14. Changing avatars of social medicine in the Indian Subcontinent Rama V. Baru
- 15. Social medicine, otherwise: Cuban health (care) as political praxis P. Sean Brotherton
- Afterword: struggling with and for social medicine Anne-Emanuelle Birn
- Afterword: the future(s) of social medicine Helena Hansen.
