Tracing its roots back to Rudolf Virchow, social medicine seeks to understand individual clinical problems in a social context and to improve health at multiple levels: clinical care, community outreach, research and advocacy.
Biopsychosocial medicine : an integrated approach to understanding illness by 
Concepts and practice of humanitarian medicine by 
Global health : why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter by 
Rethinking social epidemiology [electronic resource] : towards a science of change by 
Signs and Symptoms in Family Medicine by The Department of Family and Social Medicine seeks to combine clinical excellence with a social and community-oriented perspective, with the goal of serving a large and diverse patient population throughout the Bronx. For more information, please see the department website.
