Social Medicine Reading Group
The Social Medicine Reading Group meets weekly for about an hour to discuss a piece of literature that participants jointly selected and read on their own over the course of the previous week. Although the discussion is hosted by students, any interested individual is more than welcome to attend. Our articles have been primarily academic in nature, but have also included popular media, speeches, and material associated with health care reform movements.
We haven’t have an active social medicine reading group recently, but if you’re interested in helping us get it going again, that would be awesome! Just be in touch and we’ll get things started.
In the mean time, here’s a bibliography our first semester, Spring 2007:
Bourgois, Philippe
1998 The Moral Economies of Homeless Heroin Addicts: Confronting Ethnography, HIV Risk, and Everyday Violence in San Francisco Shooting Encampments. Substance Use & Misuse 33(11):2323-2351.
Chaufan, Claudia
2004 Sugar Blues: A Social Anatomy of the Diabetes Epidemic in the United States. In Unhealthy Heath Policy: A Critical Anthropological Investigation. Arachu Castro and Merrill Singer, eds. Pp. 257-274. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.
Dembner, Alice
2007 Universal Plan can Cost Under $300, Insurers Say: Monthly Price is Closer to Goal. The Boston Globe(February 5).
Farmer, Paul
1997 Listening for Prophetic Voices in Medicine. America 177(1):8-12.
Farmer, Paul, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee
2006 Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine. Public Library of Science Medicine 3(10):1686-1691.
Holmes, Seth M.
2006 An Ethnographic Study of the Social Context of Migrant Health in the United States. Public Library of Science Medicine 3(10):1776-1793.
Holtz, Timothy H., Seth Holmes, Scott Stonington, and Leon Eisenberg
2006 Health is Still Social: Contemporary Examples in the Age of the Genome. Public Library of Science Medicine 3(10):1663-1666.
Keshavjee, Salmaan
2004 Medicine and Money: The Ethical Transformation of Medical Practice. Medical Education 38:271-275.
Kitzhaber, John A.
2006 On the Road to Revolution: Fear and Loathing in the U.S. Health Care System. Electronic document,
http://wecandobetter.org/sites/archi.trunk/files/RoadToRevolution5-14-06.pdf, accessed 4/16, 2007.
Lwanda, John Lloyd
2004 Politics, Culture, and Medicine: An Unholy Trinity? Historical Continuities and Ruptures in the HIV/AIDS Story in Malawi. In HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology. Ezekiel Kalipeni, Susan Craddock, Joseph R. Oppong and Jayati Ghosh, eds. Pp. 29-42. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Paluzzi, Joan E.
2004 Primary Health Care since Alma Ata: Lost in the Bretton Woods? In Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination. Arachu Castro and Merrill Singer, eds. Pp. 63-77. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.
Rein, Lisa
2007 Md. House Leaders Offer Plan to Widen Health Coverage. The Washington Post B(February 8):1.
Schoepf, Brooke Grundfest
2004 AIDS, History, and Struggles Over Meaning. In HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology. Ezekiel Kalipeni, Susan Craddock, Joseph R. Oppong and Jayati Ghosh, eds. Pp. 15-28. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
All PLoS Medicine articles in this bibliography can be found in the Social Medicine in the 21st Century issue at: http://collections.plos.org/plosmedicine/socialmedicine-2006.php.