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The Department & the Field

The Department of Social Medicine was created in 1978 as a new academic unit to incorporate the long-standing interest of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in community medicine and health care delivery systems. This interest, which had been represented early on by a Department of Preventive Medicine and subsequently by divisions within Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics, and by the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, was further advanced with the establishment of the new unit. Although originally called the Department of Community Medicine and Hospital Administration, its broad concern with the social sciences and medical humanities led to the adoption of the name Social Medicine in 1980. While the Department鈥檚 current mission and scope far exceed these early seeds in community medicine and health care delivery systems, these focal points remain crucial to Department faculty research, scholarship, teaching and service.

Further Reading:

  • D. Madison, 鈥�Introduction鈥� to 黑料网 Social and Administrative Medicine, 1987-1988. (黑料网 Chapel Hill, 1988)
    A brief review of early history of the Department.
  • D. Madison, 鈥�Introduction鈥� to Social Medicine, 1993 (黑料网 Chapel Hill, 1993)
    Resonances of the academic term 鈥渟ocial medicine鈥� in work of the Department.
  • D. Madison, 鈥�Introduction: Where Medicine and Society Meet,鈥� in Social Medicine, 1998 (黑料网 Chapel Hill, 1998)
    A short history of social medicine in European, US, and 黑料网 contexts.
  • M. Foucault, 鈥淏irth of Social Medicine,鈥� in J. Faubion (ed.), Power: Essential Works of Foucault, Vol. 3 (New York: New Press, 1984).
  • G. Rosen, “What is Social Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 21 (1947): 674-733.
  • D. Porter, 鈥淗ow Did Social Medicine Evolve, and Where Is It Heading?鈥� PLoS Medicine 3, 10 (2006): 1667-1672.
  • H. Waitzkin et al., American Journal of Public Health 91, 10 (2001): 1592-1601.
  • S. Stonington et al. 鈥�.鈥� 聽New England Journal of Medicine聽379 (2018):1958-1961.
  • Perspective series (various authors).聽 .听听New England Journal of Medicine, 2018-19.