Social Medicine

Dr. Marji Gold is a family medicine doctor in Bronx, New York and is affiliated with Montefiore Medical Center. She received her medical degree from NYU School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

Special Series on Violence in Latin America

Dr. Victor Sidel passed away on January 30th, 2018. To honor his extraordinary career we are republishing an interview that appeared initially in 2013 on the occasion of his retirement.

Developing and applying a social interdependency approach means appreciating our human interconnectedness. This approach showcases how we live in a world where none of us is so separate from another that we cannot benefit by envisioning and desiring for others what we might desire for ourselves, and can motivate us to consider work in the health professions as a force not only to attend to disease, but also to encourage health. See page 84.
Image source: John Sevigny jmmsevigny@gmail.com. We appreciate his allowing us to reproduce this picture.

Crackland: Beyond Crack Cocaine: Instead of focusing on the effects of the drugs on the brain and on individual subjectivity, we should bring to light the social issues are the central category for understanding the “social subjects” who live and work in Crackland. See, page 8. Photo Credit: Karen Chernizon.

Members of the Mapuche-Williche community, Chile's largest indigenous population, consider Diabetes and Hypertension as conditions caused by the abandonment of their traditional lifestyles. See: Understanding Mapuche-Williche Conceptions of Diabetes Mellitus and Arterial Hypertension from the Perspective of Intercultural Health, page 83.

A selection from Piece Out, Peace In, a mural to protest gun violence created in Crown Heights Brooklyn with support by Groundswell, the American Friend Service Committee and NY Assemblyman Karim Camara.

See this issue's original report on continuing gaps in firearm surveillance in the US as well the discussion of the public health effect of violence in Mexico in our lead editorial.

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Dr. Eduardo Espinoza, Vice-Minister of Health (El Salvador), discusses the challenges facing health activists in the Juan César García memorial lecture. This was one of the central activities of the Latin American Conference on Social Medicine and Collective Health held in El Salvador in November of 2014.

Roberto Belmar, MD: co-author of a study on user satisfaction with the Chilean AUGE health system

Nuclear Test at Bikini Atoll: In this issue: “For the good of mankind”: The legacy of nuclear testing in Micronesia by Seiji Yamada, MD, MPH; Matthew Akiyama, MD, MSc.

Cuban medical students participate in an anti-Dengue campaign

Dr. Victor Sidel standing in front of Montefiore Medical Center (late 1980's)

The end of empire? Howard Waitzkin's Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire

Anyone who seems "different" or poses a threat to groups with vested interested can become a target of suppression and/or mobbing (source: http://lukeelkhuizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/uglyduckling2.jpg?w=490)

Chilean Student Movement 2011: Source:
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Song Tien, Vietnam, December 2010. (Credit: Mauricio Flores Peña)

Children wearing masks in Paraíso del Grijalva, Chiapas, Mexico.

Workers from the "recuperated" Junin Clinic in Cordoba, Argentina. See page 228. Source: http://coopjunin.ar.tripod.com/

David Efren Lopez (died 8/20/2010) & friend: "The cause of death was complications due to AIDS, but mostly bureaucracy and negligence." (p. 176): Photo credit: gojoven.org

1947 R.J. Reynold's Camel advertisement featuring Rudolf Virchow. This was published in the New York Journal of Medicine as part of a series on great medical scientists.

10th World Social Forum: Are We Heading Down the Right Path?