Berkeley Center for Social Medicine

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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.  

Berkeley Center for Social Medicine News

"Mass Incarceration and 21st Century Eugenics" Video Available

April 27, 2023

"Mass Incarceration and 21st Century Eugenics," a talk by Jennifer James, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences, and UCSF Bioethicsis now available for...Read more about "Mass Incarceration and 21st Century Eugenics" Video Available

Global Voices for Global Justice: Expanding Right to Health Frameworks

March 21, 2023

This special issue of Health and Human Rights Journal, honoring the legacy of Paul Farmer, is co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. Co-editors include former BCSM VS Carlos Piñones-Rivera, BCSM grad student ...Read more about Global Voices for Global Justice: Expanding Right to Health Frameworks

My Path to Academia Was a Hollywood Story, but It Shouldn't Take Miracles

March 21, 2023

The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed by Stacy Torres, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate, about her...Read more about My Path to Academia Was a Hollywood Story, but It Shouldn't Take Miracles

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