Social Medicine Then and Now: Lessons From Latin America
Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD,
Celia Iriart, PhD, MPH,
Alfredo Estrada, MD and
Silvia Lamadrid, MA
Howard Waitzkin and Celia Iriart are with the Division of Community Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Celia Iriart is also with the Central Organization of Argentine Workers (Central de Trabajadores Argentinos), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Alfredo Estrada and Silvia Lamadrid are with the Group for Research and Training in Social Medicine (Grupo de Investigación y Capacitación en Medicina Social), Santiago, Chile. Silvia Lamadrid is also with the University of Chile, Santiago.
Salvador Allende, leader of social medicine in Chile, during a political campaign in the late 1940s. (Photograph courtesy of Fundación Salvador Allende.)