Author Meets Her Readers: Abigail Neely's Reimagining Social Medicine from the South
Type: Virtual Panel
Day: 2/26/2022
Start Time: 3:40 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
Theme: Geographies of Access: Inclusion and Pathways
Sponsor Group(s):
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
, Feminist Geographies Specialty Group
, Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Patricia Lopez
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Chairs(s):
Patricia Lopez, Dartmouth College
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Description:
In this session, readers will respond to and comment on Dr. Abigail Neely's book, Reimagining Social Medicine from the South (2021, Duke University Press). In Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, Abigail H. 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. To understand Pholela's successes and failures, Neely interrogates the “social” in social medicine. She makes clear that the social sciences the PCHC used failed to account for the roles that Pholela's residents and their environment played in the development and success of its program. At the same time, the PCHC's reliance on biomedicine prevented it from recognizing the impact on health of witchcraft illnesses and the social relationships from which they emerged. 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.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
Role | Participant |
Panelist | Alex Nading |
Panelist | Heidi Hausermann Colorado State University |
Panelist | Brian King Pennsylvania State University |
Panelist | Becky Mansfield The Ohio State |
Panelist | Susan Craddock University of Minnesota |
Discussant | Abigail Neely Dartmouth College |
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Author Meets Her Readers: Abigail Neely's Reimagining Social Medicine from the South
Description
Virtual Panel
Contact the Primary Organizer
Patricia Lopez - maoquai@uw.edu