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Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars

Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars

Borowy, Iris
Hardy, Anne

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Medical ReferenceGeneral European HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 3631580444
ISBN13: 9783631580448
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Nov 10 2008
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Social medicine was one of the key health paradigms of the early twentieth century. It perceived public health as a function of social conditions and aimed at improving it through comprehensive, horizontal strategies. Yet, it was no homogeneous or static phenomenon. Depending on time, place and circumstances, it took different, sometimes ideologically contradictory forms. This volume portrays leading medical experts from seven European countries. Their juxtaposition reveals a network of international interaction and shows how different people coped with the crises of the time in different ways, sometimes as part of the scientific mainstream, sometimes as opposition under attack, sometimes in exile. Their biographies reflect an ambivalent interplay of biomedicine, politics and social theory.

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