Misdiagnosis, Mistreatment, and Harm — When Medical Care Ignores Social Forces

In the March 19, 2020 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, BCSM co-chair Seth Holmes and his co-authors argue against former University of Pennsylvania Dean of Medical Education Stanley Goldfarb, who wrote that social justice should not be included in medical training. In the article, they argue the importance of social forces to health and health care, and that ignoring social forces leads to misdiagnosis, mistreatment and harm. 

Exceeding Crisis. The Psychic Life of Drawings

"Exceeding Crisis. The Psychic Life of Drawings" was recently published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly by BCSM affiliated faculty Professor Cristiana Giordano. An excerpt from the abstract of the article is below:

Since 2015, an unprecedented number of people from Middle Eastern and African countries have crossed borders into and within Europe. Calling this a crisis implies responding to it, on the one hand, with humanitarian gestures of saving lives, and, on the other, with stricter border control. I reflect on the grammar of crisis and the forms of care that it simultaneously enables and disables. I am inspired by the relationship between two painters—from Tunisia and Nigeria—and their forms of therapeutic and ethical explorations through art.