Politics of Health in the US South
Welcome and Opening Comments (March 17th, 2016). Keynote speakers included Melissa Harris-Perry and Jesmyn Ward.
MHS Receives TIPS funding for the project Learning Institute for Health Solutions in the U.S. South
Project team includes MHS professors Jonathan Metzl, Juleigh Petty, Ken MacLeish, Laura Stark, Aimi Hamraie, Dominique Behague, and Derek Griffith.
Vanderbilt University's Center for Medicine, Health, and Society is accepting applications for the MA in the Social Foundations of Health
Deadline February 5
Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health, and Society (MHS) is currently accepting applications to our MA program in the Social Foundations of Health.
Forthcoming: The Global Psyche
experiments in ethics, politics, and technoscience
March 16-17, 2017, Vanderbilt University
Research
- MHS Professors JuLeigh Petty and Jonathan Metzl published a paper in the Journal of Medical Humanities entitled “Developing and Evaluating an Innovative Structural Competency Curriculum for Pre-Health Students.”
- Associate Professor Behague published a paper in Medical Anthropology titled “Psychiatry, Sex, and Science: The Making of ‘Adolescent’ Motherhood in Southern Brazil.”
- Professor Aimi Hamraie was awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation to fund the production of her book, Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability.
Events
- April 12: MHS Hot Topics: Amit Prasad, “Miracle Cures, Journeys of Hope, and a Cutting-Edge Science: Embryonic Stem Cell Research and therapy in a Clinic in India”
- April 4: Spring registration pizza party
- March 16-17: The Global Psyche: experiments in ethics, politics, and technoscience
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News
- Op-ed by MHS Student Molly Gupta published in the Tennessean.
- MHS Professor Hamraie visited Syracuse, New York to give a talk on “Disability, Collective Access, and Critical Design” at SUNY-Upstate Medical School (April 19), as well as a workshop at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (April 18), and a brown bag discussion at Syracuse University (April 19).
- MHS Professor Kenneth MacLeish gave a talk last week at Bucknell University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology on his recent research on special treatment courts that combine judicial supervision with mental health resources for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- MHS graduate student Meera Negarsheth has published a book review in the journal Health
- Professor Griffith presented at the World Congress on Public Health in Melbourne, Australia on April 5th, 2017 as part of a panel presentation entitled, “Three faces of racism: Addressing racism as a social determinant of health in three countries”
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Director (on leave): Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD
Acting Director (2016-2017): Dominique Behague, PhD
Assistant Director: JuLeigh Petty, PhD
