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Comment on How US students can get a free medical education in Cuba by Studying Medicine in Cuba: The experience of two US students at The Social Medicine Portal

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:01:08 +0000

[...] 23, 2008, we wrote about the Cuban government’s offer of medical scholarships to US students: How US students can get a free medical education in Cuba. We have just published an article by two American students studying in Cuba: Razel Remen and [...]

Comment on What is Social Medicine? by bronxdoc

bronxdoc — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:14:16 +0000

Dear Deepak,

Thanks for your query. This website and our associated journal (http://www.socialmedicine.info) are attempts to answer your question.

The specific content matter of social medicine depends to a great extent on the social context. This will be different in different societies and will vary over time.

Many of us think that all of medicine is social. I am told that Foucault once remarked that a “non social medicine” simply does not exist.

Matt Anderson

Comment on What is Social Medicine? by DEEPAK MADAN

DEEPAK MADAN — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:26:09 +0000

PLEASE SEND COMPLETE INFORMATION ABOUT ALL THE RESEARCH TOPICS COME UNDER SOCIAL MEDINICNE.

Comment on Health Cooperatives by bronxdoc

bronxdoc — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:25:11 +0000

Thank you for this suggestion.

The URL for the Berkeley Free Clinic is: http://www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org/home.html. The Berkeley clinic is run as a cooperative and is part of the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives at http://www.nobawc.org/index.php. I don’t know how common the cooperative structure is among free clinics.

For more information on Free Clinics you can visit the National Association of Free Clinics at: http://www.freeclinics.us/ In the Bronx, the Einstein medical students have organized the ECHO free clinic. The URL is: http://www.echo-clinic.org/.

Matt Anderson

Comment on Health Cooperatives by Oron Frenkel

Oron Frenkel — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:09:27 +0000

Perhaps you should include the Berkeley Free Clinic on this list, one of the very few health care collectives in the country.

Comment on FDA abandons Declaration of Helsinki for international clinical trials by Nelson Robson Mendes de Souza

Nelson Robson Mendes de Souza — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:38:30 +0000

It is very sad see an agency that has done so much for the world forget that sciences was made to mankind and must be governed by ethics and morals principles.

Menguele returns the condition of doctor.

Nelson from Brazil

Comment on Using Google Earth as an Innovative Tool for Community Mapping by bronxdoc

bronxdoc — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:28:00 +0000

The technical aspects of creating Google maps are fairly easy to master. The free version is a clearly designed for people who are not technically sophisticated. Our article includes step-by-step instructions but Google provides good resources on their website.

We felt that Google Earth would be a perfect tool for a small community organization that did not have strong technical capacity.

Comment on Using Google Earth as an Innovative Tool for Community Mapping by Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:30:31 +0000

Would like to learn more - how is this well suited for non-profit organizations that lack strong technical capacity?

Comment on Using Google Earth as an Innovative Tool for Community Mapping by Roma Guy

Roma Guy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:38:53 +0000

Useful for high school and undergraduate class projects.

Comment on Lear Fellowships for Medical History Students by How to research a question in medical history at The Social Medicine Portal

How to research a question in medical history at The Social Medicine Portal — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:36:35 +0000

[...] US Health Left History Center offers a Lear Fellowship for Medical History Students. This is an unparalleled collection of 20th century materials on US [...]