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Public health policy and practice
Origins and early history of the Society for Social Medicine in the UK and Ireland

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This is a personal account of my recollections of the origins and early history of the Society for Social Medicine. Others may have different views of the significance of the events described or of the contributions of those concerned with its beginnings.

  • social medicine
  • history

https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.56.5.342

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