Book Conversation with Professor Abigail Neely
All are invited to a conversation with Abigail Neely, Assistant Professor of Geography and AAAS, to discuss her new book, "Reimagining Social Medicine from the South."
All are invited to a conversation with Abigail Neely, Assistant Professor of Geography and AAAS, to discuss her new book, Reimagining Social Medicine from the South.
The conversation will be moderated by Sienna Craig, Professor of Anthropology; Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Associate Professor of History and AAAS; and Susanne Freidberg, Professor of Geography.
In Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, Abigail Neely explores social medicine's possibilities and limitations at one of its most important origin sites: the Pholela Community Health Centre (PCHC) in South Africa. The PCHC's focus on medical and social factors of health yielded remarkable success. And yet South Africa's systemic racial inequality hindered health center work, and witchcraft illnesses challenged a program rooted in the sciences. Neely interrogates the “social” in social medicine. By rewriting the story of social medicine from Pholela, Neely challenges global health practitioners to recognize the multiple worlds and actors that shape health and healing in Africa and beyond.
For more information contact: Lisa Meehan at Lisa.Meehan@Dartmouth.edu
Sponsored by: African and African American Studies, Geography, and the Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality
