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Department's academic programs address the core themes of Social Medicine.
Through the Social Studies of Medicine the institutional forms and economic
and political processes that impact medicine are explored. The social
sciences inform the coordination of health and social policies. Medical
Anthropology offers an understanding of how cultural, ethnic, class
and gender differences shape the experience of illness and responses
to care. Medical Ethics fosters a vital examination of the moral aspects
of medical practice and medical technologies and calls for critical
self-reflection as a routine aspect of medical education and care. Through
scholarship in the History of Medicine, a more sophisticated understanding
of the wide array of questions and dilemmas in contemporary medicine
is achieved. Finally, a basic conviction of the faculty is that research
in each of these areas should be "clinically relevant." Members
of the Department move systematically between social research and clinical
application and teaching through the Department's Clinical Programs.
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