Social Medicines: A New Working Definition

HealingCommunities

25 Jun

As a lab, we frame health as ecological: people are biopsychosocial beings whose health is entwined with the places they inhabit through their interactions with, and experiences of, these places.

We are now shifting our scientific focus and are moving towards the following questions:

How does the body heal?
What is an ecological approach to healing?
What do communities need to identify and create their own health pathways?
What emancipatory scholarship can we create?

This document is divided into the following parts: an introduction to social medicine, a new working definition of social medicines, the relationship between social medicine and uprisings, and the application of social medicines within our lab’s ecosystem.

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Social Medicines

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