Of medicine and men
Subtitle: biographies and ideas in European social medicine between the World Wars
By: edited by Iris Borowy and Anne Hardy
Publisher: P. Lang; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9783631580448
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Iris Borowy; title: Selskar 'Mike' Gunn and public health reform in Europe / Socrates Litsios; title: Béla Johan (1889-1983) and public health in inter-war Hungary / Erik Ingebrigtsen; title: Andrija Štampar (1888-1958): resolute fighter for health and social justice / Željko Dugac; title: Melville Mackenzie (1889-1972): 'Feed the people and prevent disease, and be damned to their politics' / Zoe Sprigings; title: Actions not words: Thorvald Madsen, Denmark, and international health, 1902-1939 / Anne Hardy; title: In the shadow of Grotjahn: German social hygienists in the international health scene / Iris Borowy; title: Gustavo Pittaluga (1876-1956): science as a weapon for social reform in a time of crisis / Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña & Iris Borowy; title: A posthumous audit: medical biography and the social history of medicine / Patrick Zylberman.