In June 2022, I completed my dissertation.  In my research, I explored the 1935 establishment of a Mexican medical education program known as the servicio medico-social (SMS).  The SMS aimed to do several things: to inculcate a spirit of civic mindedness among young, urban clinical trainees, to increase the state's public health infrastructural footprint across rural Mexico, to eliminate so-called "backwardness" among Mexico's indigenous populations and to transform them into "modern," scientifically-literate consumers. In my dissertation, I examine the emotional politics involved in medical education and public health: training physicians involves not merely teaching students how to think about patients, but also how to feel about them.

Want to read a little bit more?  Check out some of my work here at Hektoen International, an online journal for the medical humanities!