The Berkeley Center for Social Medicine critically engages the intersection of social systems, social difference, health and health care in the United States and across the globe.
Founded in 2013, the Center links to the discipline of social medicine internationally by bringing together Bay Area scholars from the social and historical sciences who are working on questions related to medicine, the health sciences, public health, global health, the social structuring of suffering, violence and the body.
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Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America
Video is now available of Helena Hansen’s talk “Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America”. In this discussion, Hansen covers the U.S. opioid crisis of the past two decades, touching...Read more about Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America
Science Vs. Gossip
Listen to Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate Stacey Torres discuss the brain on gossip as a guest in this Science Vs. podcast episode. Describing her experience watching a group...Read more about Science Vs. Gossip
The Return of Freud
In this essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Hannah Zeavin, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate, depicts the re-emergence of Freudian...Read more about The Return of Freud
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