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Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series Reimagining Social Medicine from the SouthDATE: March 25, 2022 (Friday)
In Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, political ecologist 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. 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. Speaker: Abigail Neely PhD (Assistant Professor of Geography, Dartmouth College) Abigail H. Neely PhD is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College, USA. Her work examines the histories and presents of biomedicine and traditional medicine in rural South Africa through political ecology and medical anthropology lenses. In addition to her book, Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, she has published in geography, anthropology, and African Studies journals. She is a committed teacher and advocate for a more diverse and inclusive university and a mom to two energetic boys. Discussant: Stacey Langwick MPH & PhD (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University) Stacey A. Langwick MPH & PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. She is author of Bodies, Politics and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania (2011) and co-editor of Medicine, Mobility and Power in Global Africa (2012). Her articles and essays have appeared in American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Science, Technology and Human Values, and Medical Anthropology, as well as a number of edited volumes. She is currently working on a second sole authored book entitled Medicines That Feed Us: Plants, Healing and Sovereignty in a Toxic World. Moderator: Laura Meek PhD (Assistant Professor, Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, HKU)
Co-hosted by: Centre for the Humanities and Medicine Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit All are welcome. Please register and the Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event. For enquiries, please contact Mr. Adrian Kam by email at adkam@hku.hk or by phone at +852 39172867. Visit our website: https://chm.hku.hk/
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