Medicine & Health

Social Medicine in the 21st Century

Published September 1, 2017 Curated Collections

PLOS Medicine's October 2006 issue contained a special collection of eleven magazine articles and five research papers devoted entirely to social medicine. The collection featured many of the leaders in the field, including Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman, David Satcher, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Dorothy Porter, and Leon Eisenberg. The Kaiser Family Foundation has conducted interviews with two of the authors of papers in this collection, David Satcher and Paul Farmer.

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Editorial
Student Forum
Policy Forums
The PLOS Medicine Debate
Essays
Research Articles
Guest Editors

Editorial

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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030445

PLOS Medicine Social Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
October 24, 2006 Scott Stonington, Seth M Holmes, The PLoS Medicine Editors

Student Forum

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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030199

PLOS Medicine Why Should Medical Students Care about Health Policy?
October 24, 2006 Rajesh Gupta

Policy Forums

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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030394

PLOS Medicine Time to Regenerate: Ecosystems and Health Promotion
October 24, 2006 Colin D Butler, Sharon Friel
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030449

PLOS Medicine Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine
October 24, 2006 Paul E Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, Salmaan Keshavjee

The PLOS Medicine Debate

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PLOS Medicine Is It Ethical for Patients with Renal Disease to Purchase Kidneys from the World’s Poor?
October 24, 2006 Tarif Bakdash, Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Essays

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PLOS Medicine Ethnic Disparities in Health: The Public’s Role in Working for Equality
October 24, 2006 David Satcher
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030439

PLOS Medicine Is There a Global Bioethics? End-of-Life in Thailand and the Case for Local Difference
October 24, 2006 Scott Stonington, Pinit Ratanakul
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PLOS Medicine Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It
October 24, 2006 Arthur Kleinman, Peter Benson
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030399

PLOS Medicine How Did Social Medicine Evolve, and Where Is It Heading?
October 24, 2006 Dorothy Porter
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030419

PLOS Medicine Health Is Still Social: Contemporary Examples in the Age of the Genome
October 24, 2006 Timothy H Holtz, Seth Holmes, Scott Stonington, Leon Eisenberg

Research Articles

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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030452

PLOS Medicine Reinterpreting Ethnic Patterns among White and African American Men Who Inject Heroin: A Social Science of Medicine Approach
October 24, 2006 Philippe Bourgois, Alexis Martinez, Alex Kral, Brian R Edlin, Jeff Schonberg, Dan Ciccarone
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030383

PLOS Medicine Reconstructing Tuberculosis Services after Major Conflict: Experiences and Lessons Learned in East Timor
August 22, 2006 Nelson Martins, Paul M Kelly, Jocelyn A Grace, Anthony B Zwi
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030342

PLOS Medicine Insights into the Management of Emerging Infections: Regulating Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Transfusion Risk in the UK and the US
October 24, 2006 Maya L Ponte
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030421

PLOS Medicine Indigenous Health and Socioeconomic Status in India
October 24, 2006 S. V Subramanian, George Davey Smith, Malavika Subramanyam
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030448

PLOS Medicine An Ethnographic Study of the Social Context of Migrant Health in the United States
October 24, 2006 Seth M Holmes

Guest Editors

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UC Berkeley

University of Berkeley Seth M. Holmes PhD, MD
September 1, 2017 Associate Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology
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Uni of Michigan

University of Michigan Scott Stonington, MD, PhD
September 1, 2017 Assistant Professor, Anthroplogy