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Dins la programació del Seminari EMBEDDED ADVOCACY IN MEDICINE & HEALTH organizat pel Program on Medical History, Ethics & Politics (Facultat de Medicina, American University of Beirut - MHEP-AUB) y el Medical Anthropology Research Center (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), el proper dimarts 11 de novembre i de 16 a 18 h (horari peninsular) 17-19 h (horari a Líban), tindrà lloc la sessió que us anunciem a la que hem adjuntat un breu resumen i biografia dels conferenciants. Al PDF adjunt trobareu el QR amb l’enllaç de connexió a webex corresponent
"Global Histories of Social Medicine: Usable Pasts for an Untenable Present", Dra. Anne Kveim Lie i Dr. Jeremy Greene
In this talk, we discuss the plural histories of social medicine as a site of practical engagement between social science, clinical care, and community health advocacy in the modern world. There is no single definition of social medicine, a vital and pragmatic field that has been invented and re-invented in many different times and places. Instead, we present its multiple origins and trajectories across very different politics and economies of health as an opportunity to explore what advocacy can mean in community health, clinical practice, and even the basic sciences of medical education. This talk draws on our recently released book, Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2025), co-edited with Warwick Anderson, which weaves together a variety of intersecting narratives of social medicine and health advocacy in colonial and postcolonial contexts, involving authors, actors, and analytics from around the world. Social medicine has often been marginalized in (and sometimes opposed to) biomedical systems, but we argue that it must also be understood as a critique of medicine from within, or as an embedded advocacy by those actors within the medical profession who emphasize the ineradicable relevance of the social world in medical education, research, practice, and policy. In a world of widening global health inequalities and depleted public health services, we need a revived social medicine more than ever; we offer a usable past for social medicine in order to imagine alternate futures from this alarming and oppressive moment.
Anne Kveim Lie, M.D., Ph.D, is a Professor of Medical History at the University of Oslo's Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, specializing in the history of medicine with a focus on the Scandinavia welfare states. Her work centers on the social and political dimensions of healthcare and medicine, and on the history of infectious disease and pharmaceuticals. Recently, her research has expanded globally, addressing contemporary issues like antibiotic resistance and climate change, through interdisciplinary projects that connect historical insights with pressing global challenges. Dr. Lie works as a physician at a health centre for undocumented migrants in Oslo, and is involved in education initiatives in medical school aimed at incorporating medical humanities and social medicine into healthcare training, emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in understanding and addressing current health challenges.
Dr. Jeremy A. Greene, M.D., Ph.D., is the William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he directs the Institute of the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, edits the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and sees patients as a primary care physician in a community health center in East Baltimore. His scholarly work focuses on the social histories of medical technologies and their role in the production or amelioration of disparities in access to care. Dr. Greene's current research focuses on the production of medical waste and the ecological impacts of modern healthcare, his work has been recognized by recent fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress, and the Nicolas Davies Prize from the American College of Physicians for "outstanding scholarly activities in history, literature, philosophy, and ethics and contributions to humanism in medicine."
