TY  - BOOK
AU  - Iris Borowy
AU  - Anne Hardy
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653051568
TI  - Of Medicine and Men
T2  - Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the World Wars
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-05156-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054041
N2  - 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.
KW  - Biographie, Europa, Sozialmedizin, Geschichte 1919-1939, social medicine, interwar history, public health, social reform, Arzt
LA  - English
ER  -