Medicine on a Larger Scale

Anne Kveim Lie is Professor of Medical History, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo. Jeremy A. Greene is William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Warwick Anderson is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance, and Ethics in Health, Anthropology in the School of Social and Political Sciences and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.

• Introduction: the many lives and afterlives of social medicine Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene and Anne Kveim Lie; Decentering Rudolf Virchow: the making of a social medicine pioneer Carsten Timmermann; 2. Social medicine in the Arab world: colonial legacies and postcolonial praxis Joelle M. Abi-Rached and Lidia Helou; 3. Latin American social medicine, across the waves Eric D. Carter; 4. Imperial social medicine in Southeast Asia: the Bandung Intergovernmental Conference on Rural Hygiene Laurence Monnais and Hans Pols; 5. Social and socialist: Ideas of health, medicine and society across the Iron Curtain Dora Vargha; 6. Social medicine in social democracy Anne Kveim Lie and Per Haave; 7. American social medicine in the shadow of socialized medicine Jeremy A. Greene, Scott H. Podolsky and David S. Jones; 8. A 'counter-hegemonic' social medicine: leftist physicians during the Latin American Cold War Sebastian Fonseca; 9. The African roots of community oriented primary care Abigail H. Neely; 10. Barefoot doctors and social medicine in China Xiaoping Fang; 11. From 'Saude Publica' to 'Medicina Social' to 'Saude Coletiva': the emergence of a transepistemic arena in Brazil Kenneth Rochel de Camargo; 12. Settler colonial social medicine and community health: Australasian adaptations, reinventions, and denials Warwick Anderson, James Dunk and Connie Musolino; 13. Social medicine beyond colonial rule: the medical field units of Ghana, 1930–2000 David Bannister; 14. Changing avatars of social medicine in the Indian Subcontinent Rama V. Baru; 15. Social medicine, otherwise: Cuban health (care) as political praxis P. Sean Brotherton; Afterword: struggling with and for social medicine Anne-Emanuelle Birn; Afterword: the future(s) of social medicine Helena Hansen.

'Medicine on a Larger Scale offers multiple visions of social medicine as an idea, field of research and teaching, form of practice, critique of health policy, and approach to the Planet's problems. This intriguing and useful collection also places social medicine in a truly global context and gives voice to social medicine traditions form the South that are less well-known than the stories it also presents from Euro-American history. A step forward in imagining a counter-biomedicine that can better connect social suffering and healing with interpretive social science, post-colonial imaginings, and some of the more serious problems of the world. Impressive!' Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University