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In Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, Abigail H. Neely explores social medicines possibilities and limitations at one of its most important origin sites: the Pholela Community Health Centre (PCHC) in South Africa. The PCHCs focus on medical and social factors of health yielded remarkable success. And yet South Africas systemic racial inequality hindered health center work, and witchcraft illnesses challenged a program rooted in the sciences. To understand Pholelas successes and failures, Neely interrogates the social in social medicine. She makes clear that the social sciences the PCHC used failed to account for the roles that Pholelas residents and their environment played in the development and success of its program. At the same time, the PCHCs reliance on biomedicine prevented it from recognizing the impact on health of witchcraft illnesses and the social relationships from which they emerged. 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.About author(s):Abigail H. Neely is Assistant Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College.
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