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Why Should Medical Students Care about Health Policy?
Gupta argues that medicine has become increasingly influenced by political, economic and social policies, and that medical students should become well-versed in these policies.
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Too Long, Too Short, or Just Right: Glycosphingolipid–Protein Binding Varies with Acyl Chain Length
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siRNAs and DNA Methylation Do a Two-Step to Silence Tandem Sequences
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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine
Structural violence refers to the social structures that put people in harm's way. Farmer and colleagues describe the impact of social violence upon people living with HIV in the US and Rwanda.
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Is It Ethical for Patients with Renal Disease to Purchase Kidneys from the World's Poor?
: In many countries, the number of patients waiting for a kidney transplant is increasing. But there is a widespread and serious shortage of kidneys for transplantation, a shortage that can lead to suffering and death. One approach to tackling the shortage is for a patient with renal disease to buy…
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Social Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
ThePLoS Medicine editors, and Guest Editors Scott Stonington and Seth Holmes, introduce a special collection of articles examining the social structures that contribute to illness and health.
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An Ethnographic Study of the Social Context of Migrant Health in the United States
Background: Migrant workers in the United States have extremely poor health. This paper aims to identify ways in which the social context of migrant farm workers affects their health and health care. Methods and Findings: This qualitative study employs participant observation and interviews on…
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Health Is Still Social: Contemporary Examples in the Age of the Genome
Holtz and colleagues argue that social medicine, including an understanding of the social roots of disease, is as important now as it has ever been.
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Indigenous Health and Socioeconomic Status in India
Background: Systematic evidence on the patterns of health deprivation among indigenous peoples remains scant in developing countries. We investigate the inequalities in mortality and substance use between indigenous and non-indigenous, and within indigenous, groups in India, with an aim to…
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Is There a Global Bioethics? End-of-Life in Thailand and the Case for Local Difference
Western bioethics is insufficient, say the authors, to solve the problems created by the adoption of allopathic medicine in non-Western contexts.
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Reinterpreting Ethnic Patterns among White and African American Men Who Inject Heroin: A Social Science of Medicine Approach
Background: Street-based heroin injectors represent an especially vulnerable population group subject to negative health outcomes and social stigma. Effective clinical treatment and public health intervention for this population requires an understanding of their cultural environment and…
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Time to Regenerate: Ecosystems and Health Promotion
Butler and Friel call upon the health promotion community to strongly reengage with environmental and ecological issues.
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How Did Social Medicine Evolve, and Where Is It Heading?
A better understanding of how social medicine evolved, says Porter, could help to focus its role in responding to the health needs of a post-industrial, globalizing world.
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Ethnic Disparities in Health: The Public's Role in Working for Equality
If we had eliminated health disparities in the last century, then in the year 2000 alone there would have been 83,500 fewer African American deaths, says the 16th US Surgeon General.
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“Anecdotal Evidence”: Why Narratives Matter to Medical Practice
In this personal essay, Campo discusses the value of listening to patients' stories.
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Insights into the Management of Emerging Infections: Regulating Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Transfusion Risk in the UK and the US
Background: Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a human prion disease caused by infection with the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. After the recognition of vCJD in the UK in 1996, many nations implemented policies intended to reduce the hypothetical risk of transfusion…
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Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It
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