| PSM Resources | PSM Faculty | Mission Statement | Goals | To Reach Us |
Director:
Martin
Pernick, Ph.D.,
Associate Director
for History and Medicine
Marilynn
Rosenthal, Ph.D.,
Associate Director
for FORUM on Health Care Reform
Carl
Schneider, J.D.,
Associate Director
for Law and Medicine
The Program in Society and Medicine (PSM) is charged with
identifying faculty throughout the University of Michigan interested in
ethics, the humanities, and social sciences relevant to health care,
encouraging education in these areas, and
facilitating research.
Goals:
Research questions are generally concerned with the social context of health care. Often, these questions require the use of analytical techniques drawn not from the natural sciences, which have dominated the academic study of health care since the early twentieth century, but from the humanities and the social sciences, fields that are increasingly recognized as central to the mission of health care.
Over the past three
years, over 324 people have identified themselves with the PSM. Most of
these people are affiliated with University of Michigan. They teach and
study the relationships between health care and society from a wide range
of non-biological perspectives, working with an extensive range of approaches
and methodologies. Affiliations include the Medical School (medical students
and faculty members from the Departments of Family Practice, Internal Medicine,
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physiology, Psychiatry, and Surgery); the
U-M Hospitals; the Schools of Public Health, Nursing, and Social Work;
the College of LS&A (American Culture, Anthropology, Classics, English
Literature, History, History of Art, Philosophy and Sociology); the Law
School; the Bentley Historical Library; the Institute of Gerontology; and
UM-Dearborn. Other participants come from Michigan State University, Wayne
State University, Eastern Michigan University, and the non-academic community.
External funding is provided by the Lyle C. Roll Memorial Fund, the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, and Little, Brown and Company.
Phone (734) 647-4844,
or Fax (734)
647-3301.
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