MHS is an innovative multidisciplinary center that studies the social and societal dimensions of health and illness. Our scholarship, teaching, and wide-ranging collaborative projects explore medicine and science in a wide array of cultural contexts, while at the same time fostering productive dialogue across disciplinary boundaries.

Raj Punjabi

“How the media promotes (and ignores!) health advocacy, and its implications for health social justice”

January 29, 2019

 

 

 

 

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Vanderbilt University's Center for Medicine, Health, and Society is accepting applications for the MA in the Social Foundations of Health

 

 

 

 

Deadline February 1, 2019

 

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Spring 2018 Center for Medicine, Health and Society newsletter

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Spring 2019 Calendar

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Events

Jan. 29: Raj Punjabi, Health Editor at VICE

Jan. 30: Rymer Gallery, “Disarmed” exhibit opening (and other related events)

Jan. 31: “The Hate U Give” Book Club Discussion

Feb. 8-10: Attitude: Lucy Negro Redux

Feb. 16: VIGH Global Health Case Competition

Feb. 25: VIGH Global Health Symposium

March 20:  Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University 

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Director: Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD
Assistant Director: JuLeigh Petty, PhD

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