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.

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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Mental Illness, Race, and Incarceration

 

October 16, 2018

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Anita Hill

“No Longer Silent: Underrepresented Narratives in Sexual Violence”

October 28th, 2018

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Spring 2018 Center for Medicine, Health and Society newsletter

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Fall 2018 Calendar

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Events

Oct. 26: Series of events with Dr. Christine Labuski!
Oct. 28: Anita Hill, “No Longer Silent: Underrepresented Narratives in Sexual Violence”
Oct. 30: MHS Colloquium with Dr. Kym Weed
Nov. 12: Reframing Addiction: Poets & Poetry on the Opioid Epidemic

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

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