I sometimes wonder how much of me is the last of the old traditional country doctor and how much of me is a doctor of the future. Can you be both?
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Accompaniment is an expansive idea, encompassing both the moral center of social medicine and a pragmatic tool for global health delivery. In honor of our friend, colleague, and accompagnateur Paul Farmer, a proseminar from partners at Harvard Medical School, Partners in Health, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital about the meaning and practice of accompaniment.
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Primary care is a site of both tradition and renewal in Native America, with a broad charge to support individual, family, and community health. From course director Sagar Raju, a proseminar on the role and practice of primary care in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
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Social medicine means understanding the social forces that shape health — and delivering care that attends to those forces. From course director Linda Joule, a proseminar introducing clinicians to the history, meaning, and practice of social medicine.
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Mental disorders are often diagnosed and treated as medical events, but evidence points to the importance of social context and social care. From course director Corina Kramer, a proseminar introducing health workers to ideas from anthropology and social medicine as they relate to Indigenous community mental health.
To accompany someone is to go somewhere with him or her, to be present on a journey with a beginning and an end: ‘I’ll share your fate for awhile’ — and by awhile I don’t mean a little while.
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In the impoverished rural community in which he works, John Sassall tends the maimed, the dying, and the lonely. He is not only the dispenser of cures but the repository of memories. As John Berger and Jean Mohr follow Sassall about his rounds, they produce a book whose careful detail broadens into a meditation on the value we assign a human life.
Read A Fortunate Man →
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Historian David Jones examines how European settlers explained and rationalized the epidemics that decimated Native populations during colonization. Century after century, they tried to understand the causes of epidemics, the vulnerability of American Indians, and the persistence of health disparities.
Read Rationalizing Epidemics →
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Sarah Vowell and her sister re-trace the route their Cherokee ancestors took when expelled from their own land. They reflect on their own American-ness and Cherokee-ness, and on the more difficult question: What's history good for, anyway?
Listen to This American Life →
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Lissa Yellow Bird searches for missing people. Cold cases, mostly. People no one else is looking for. It’s not her job, but a lot of Native Americans go missing and their cases remain unsolved, so families often ask Lissa for help.
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