Introduction At present, we are living through several major, arguably foreseen, historical events and political shifts. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised and further fragmented …
I had just begun my year of social service when I met a patient I will never forget. Let’s call her María. She was around 50 years old…
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Report on the international conference “Radical Health. Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good” organized by the Association for Anthropology and Medicine (AGEM), the Medical Anthr…
(On behalf of the Wellcome Trust Global Social Medicine Network) Introduction Social Medicine from the South was a virtual two-day mini-conference consisting of two panels that took place…