Medicine on a Larger Scale

'Medicine on a Larger Scale offers multiple visions of social medicine as an idea, field of research and teaching, form of practice, critique of health policy, and approach to the Planet's problems. This intriguing and useful collection also places social medicine in a truly global context and gives voice to social medicine traditions form the South that are less well-known than the stories it also presents from Euro-American history. A step forward in imagining a counter-biomedicine that can better connect social suffering and healing with interpretive social science, post-colonial imaginings, and some of the more serious problems of the world. Impressive!' Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University 'This impressive and timely work brings together contributions from a wide range of scholars to illuminate the historical basis of social medicine. The contributors show us that the lessons are highly relevant to contemporary challenges and why reimagining social medicine in the light of current realities can help to address them.' Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 'This collection of essays is pivotal to understanding the historical urgency of global public health. The political visibility of that urgency is embedded in global histories of social medicine movements that asked what are the social determinants of population health in post-colonial worlds. Collectively these essays powerfully demonstrate the interrogative necessity of historical analysis in order to address crippling global inequalities in health, premature mortality and debilitating morbidities.' Dorothy Porter, University of California, San Francisco