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Seiji Yamada, MD, MPH

The author is with the Hawai’i/Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center, Office of Medical Education, and Division of Ecology and Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Seiji Yamada, MD, MPH, Hawai’i/Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, 1960 East West Rd, Biomed T-105, Honolulu, HI 96822 (e-mail: seiji{at}hawaii.edu).

A fundamental change in the theory underlying public health and medicine is needed. Latin American social medicine (LASM), originating in a region of the world that has been subjected to colonial and postcolonial influence, will be part of this change.

To the extent that the social production of disease among people in other regions is a consequence of various large-scale forms of domination, LASM offers a relevant analysis, models of resistance, and exemplars of social medicine in practice. I draw upon LASM to examine the social production of disease in the Marshall Islands and Iraq.

I suggest a basis for a global social medicine in the shared experience of suffering and describe implications for public health theory and practice.

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