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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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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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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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.
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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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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A Mess to be Reckoned With
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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.
Life Beside Itself
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Lisa Stevenson explores the meaning and practice of care through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic and the subsequent suicide crisis.
Wherever I go, people often say: ‘Well, we already know what works in our community. Our culture is our treatment.’
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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.