Some Remarks on the Role of Social Medicine in the Practice of Clinical Gerontology

2015 ◽  
pp. 79-82
Author(s):  
A. F. Wessen
Keyword(s):  
Social Medicine ◽  
Clinical Gerontology

scholarly journals Society as Cause and Cure: The Norms of Transgender Social Medicine

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketil Slagstad
Keyword(s):  
Social Medicine ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Therapeutic Regime ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Social ◽  
In Trans ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Oral History Interviews

AbstractThis article analyzes how trans health was negotiated on the margins of psychiatry from the late 1970s and early 1980s. In this period, a new model of medical transition was established for trans people in Norway. Psychiatrists and other medical doctors as well as psychologists and social workers with a special interest and training in social medicine created a new diagnostic and therapeutic regime in which the social aspects of transitioning took center stage. The article situates this regime in a long Norwegian tradition of social medicine, including the important political role of social medicine in the creation of the postwar welfare state and its scope of addressing and changing the societal structures involved in disease. By using archival material, medical records and oral history interviews with former patients and health professionals, I demonstrate how social aspects not only underpinned diagnostic evaluations but were an integral component of the entire therapeutic regime. Sex reassignment became an integrative way of imagining and practicing psychiatry as social medicine. The article specifically unpacks the social element of these diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in trans medicine. Because the locus of intervention and treatment remained the individual, an approach with subversive potential ended up reproducing the norms that caused illness in the first place: “the social” became a conformist tool to help the patient integrate, adjust to and transform the pathology-producing forces of society.

scholarly journals The role of social medicine in the COVID-19 pandemic era

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciano Bubbico ◽  
Saverio Bellizzi ◽  
Salvatore Ferlito ◽  
Luca Cegolon
Keyword(s):  
Social Medicine

scholarly journals DECODING THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL MEDICINE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 360-366
Author(s):  
Walied Khawar Balwan ◽  
Wahied Khawar Balwan ◽  
Neelam Saba
Keyword(s):  
Social Medicine

scholarly journals The Role of Nutrition in Social Medicine

1946 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 44-84
Author(s):  
T. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Social Medicine
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