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 Everyday Innovation of People with Disabilities in Spaces and Products

January 19, 2023

The PBS NewsHour featured the UC Berkeley Disability Lab, led by Karen Nakamura, faculty affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. The lab examines how making tools, modifying existing ones, and reimagining environments in order to navigate spaces and use...Read more about The Everyday Innovation of People with Disabilities in Spaces and Products

New Book on Health Care, Money, and Relationships

January 8, 2023

Enveloped Lives: Caring and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care explores the complex doctor-patient interactions that revolve around the integral...Read more about New Book on Health Care, Money, and Relationships

Khiara Bridges Reflects on the Supreme Court

January 8, 2023

Khiara Bridges, faculty affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, wrote the foreword to Harvard Law Review's annual issue summing up the previous year's Supreme Court cases. Bridges highlights the...Read more about Khiara Bridges Reflects on the Supreme Court

Institute for the Study of Societal Issues