Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Global South (NEW)

Through the lens of Latin America, explores the history of social medicine, a field that understands health and illness through structural determinants such as poverty, underdevelopment, and socio-demographic inequality. Topics include: Latin America’s national initiatives — past and present — for social medicine; historical figures who trained as doctors but became presidents or revolutionaries; South-South cooperation in the field of medicine; and Indigenous practices to care and wellbeing. Explores the history of medical practices that defy Western paradigms and challenges students to think about the perils and possibilities of their own medical system and the diverse population it serves.