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  • Social Medicine Writing and Publishing Workshop Rio de Janeiro, 27 May 2020

    Social Medicine Writing and Publishing Workshop Rio de Janeiro, 27 May 2020 Call for Participation The key aim of this interactive workshop is to build the writing and publishing capacity of early-career researchers based at institutions in Latin America who are working in the fields of social medicine / collective health and are interested in… Read more »

  • CFP: Radical Health: Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good

    Radical Health: Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good Freie Universität Berlin, 2-4 October 2020 Full CFP: https://www.medicalanthropology.de/wp-content/uploads/1/2019/09/CFP_Radical-Health_Berlin-2020.pdf Please submit an abstract of max. 300 words describing your theoretical intervention, ethnographic research, or health initiative by 20 October 2019 to radicalhealth-berlin2020@mailbox.org. We encourage suggestions for individual scientific presentations, roundtables, film screenings, and other… Read more »

  • CFP: Health, public involvement, and gender: new voices, knowledges and practices

    XIII International Workshop Science, Technology and Gender Health, public involvement, and gender: new voices, knowledges and practices   Madrid, 21-23rd October 2019 The project Multiple voices, plural knowledges and biomedical technologies (MINECO: FFI2015-65947-C2 -1-P) invites contributions for the XIII International Workshop on Science, Technology and Gender to debate how public involvement (PPI) and gender are important to improve… Read more »

  • CFP: Health, healthcare and urban spaces: perspectives from the law and medical humanities

      See attached a CFP for an event to be held at the Free State Centre for Human Rights in August 2019. CFP – Bloemfontein Law, Medicine, Humanities

  • Global Public Health Special Issue: Social inequities and contemporary struggles for collective health in Latin America

    Global Public Health An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice Special Issue: Social inequities and contemporary struggles for collective health in Latin America Guest Editors: Emily E. Vasquez, Amaya Perez-Brumer, and Richard G. Parker

  • New Book By Jonathan Metzl – Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland

    Jonathan Metzl’s recent book may be also of interest for members of the Network:Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland.  New York: Basic Books https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/jonathan-m-metzl/dying-of-whiteness/9781549125812/

  • Re-Imagining Global Health Through Social Medicine – new paper by members of the GSM network

    Adams, Vincanne; Behague, Dominique; Caduff, Carlo; Löwy, Ilana and Ortega, Francisco. (2019). “Re-Imagining Global Health Through Social Medicine.” Global Public Health. DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2019.1587639 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2019.1587639

  • New England Journal of Medicine – Social Medicine Case Studies on Social Medicine

    Members of the Global Social Medicine Network are publishing a series of case studies in social medicine in the NEJM: see the New England Journal of Medicine –  Case Studies on Social Medicine    

  • Indian Journal Seminar publishes on social medicne

    The February 2019 issue of Seminar focuses on social medicine – see http://www.india-seminar.com/semframe.html

  • Social Medicine Consortium 2020 meeting

    The Social Medicine Consortium’s next annual gathering in 2020 will be in Mbarara, Uganda (likely somewhere between April – June).