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

The Overturn of Roe Could Mean the End of Fertility Medicine

July 29, 2022

Meghna Mukherjee, graduate student affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, co-authored an article in Ms. Magazine that examines the ...Read more about The Overturn of Roe Could Mean the End of Fertility Medicine

A Healing Centered Approach in Community Public Health Interventions

July 1, 2022

Berkeley Public Health interviewed Jason Corburn, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, about his latest book, Cities for Life: How Communities Can Recover from Trauma and Rebuild for Health. Corburn details...Read more about A Healing Centered Approach in Community Public Health Interventions

Court Abortion Ruling is an Assault on Women and Democracy

July 1, 2022

In this Berkeley News interview, Khiara Bridges, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Ethnographic Research and Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, discusses ...Read more about Court Abortion Ruling is an Assault on Women and Democracy

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