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A MiniCase about the experience of Sreejani Malakar at Haiyya.
Bending the Arc
Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack, and Thomas White began a movement in the 1980s that changed global health forever.
How to Survive a Plague
In the late 1980s, members of Act-Up and other AIDS activists battle hostility and indifference to bring attention to the disease and try to reduce the number of victims while hoping to lead the drive to find a cure.
Pathologies of Power
Description Pathologies of Power tells harrowing stories of life-and-death stories to interrogate our understanding of human rights and health justice. Farmer’s disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with
Moving Politics: Emotions and ACT Up’s Fight Against AIDS
Description Emotion plays a fundamental role in health activism. From anger to hope, pride to shame, and solidarity to despair, feelings played a significant part in ACT UP’s provocative style of protest, which included raucous demonstrations, die-ins, and other kinds
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Description Murthy’s message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community. Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination
Description The Black Panther Party's health activism--its network of free health clinics, its campaign to raise awareness about genetic disease, and its challenges to medical discrimination--was an expression of its founding political philosophy and also a recognition that poor blacks
White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician
Description In the sixties, Fitzhugh Mullan was an activist in the civil rights struggle. While in medical school, Mullan was shocked by gaps in what the students learned, and the lack of humanity in the classroom. Later, Dr. Mullan was
How Vot-ER organized the Pennsylvania healthcare community to register voters
Utilizing community organizing and public narrative as a framework to engage the healthcare community to register voters.
How healthcare can help heal communities and the planet
How healthcare can help heal communities and the planet