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Abigail Neely, subordinate prof successful the Department of Geography of Dartmouth College.
Abigail Neely, subordinate prof successful the Department of Geography of Dartmouth College, will present a colloquium astatine the U of A successful the Department of Geosicenes titled, "Reimagining Social Medicine," astatine 3:05 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, successful GEAR 026.
There has been a caller uptick successful involvement successful societal medicine — the operation of objective attraction and an attraction to the societal determinants of health — worldwide. In this talk, Neely asks what we tin larn astir the possibilities and limitations of societal medicine from the radical who lived successful the catchments of 1 of its astir important root sites, Pholela, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
By knowing societal medicine from Pholela, Neely opens up important questions astir what constitutes some medicine and societal beingness successful Pholela and beyond. The effect is simply a communicative of aggregate actors — people, microbes, political-economy and ancestors, to sanction a fewer — moving unneurotic to signifier some assemblage wellness and the technological practices developed to code it.
In telling this communicative of societal medicine, Neely challenges planetary wellness practitioners to admit the aggregate realities their patients unrecorded successful and to marque abstraction for healing beyond technological societal medicine.
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