Book ID: CBB001230227

Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars (2008)

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Borowy, Iris (Editor)


Peter Lang


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: 223 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Includes Chapters

Chapter Borowy, Iris (2008) Introduction. In: Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars. unapi

Chapter Litsios, Socrates (2008) Selskar “Mike” Gunn and Public Health Reform in Europe. In: Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars. unapi

Chapter Ingebrigtsen, Erik (2008) Béla Johan (1889--1983) and Public Health in Inter-War Hungary. In: Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars. unapi

Chapter Dugac, Zeljko (2008) Andrija Stampar (1888--1958): Resolute Fighter for Health and Social Justice. In: Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars. unapi

Chapter Sprigings, Zoe (2008) Melville Mackenzie (1889--1972): “Feed the People and Prevent Disease, and Be Damned to Their Politics”. In: Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars. unapi

Chapter Hardy, Anne (2008) Actions Not Words: Thorvald Madsen, Denmark, and International Health, 1902--1939. In: Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars. unapi

Chapter Borowy, Iris (2008) In the Shadow of Grotjahn: German Social Hygienists in the International Health Scene. In: Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars. unapi

Chapter Rodríguez-Ocaña, Esteban; Borowy, Iris (2008) Gustavo Pittaluga (1876--1956): Science as a Weapon for Social Reform in a Time of Crisis. In: Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars. unapi

Chapter Zylberman, Patrick (2008) A Posthumous Audit: Medical Biography and the Social History of Medicine. In: Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ruben E. Verwaal
Brenner, Elma
Janakan, Gnananandan
van Dam, Fabiola I. W. M.
Touati, Françoise-Olivier
Swedlund, Alan C.
Journals
Medical History
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal of Medical Biography
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Medizin, Gesellschaft, und Geschichte
Publishers
Manchester University Press
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
York University (Canada)
Berg
Concepts
Disease and diseases
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Public health
Physicians; doctors
Medicine
Infectious diseases
People
Latta, Thomas Aitchison
Shortt, Elizabeth Smith
Rockefeller, John Davison, Jr.
Fothergill, John
Dickens, Charles
Avicenna
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Medieval
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Europe
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Atlantic world
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
League of Nations
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