Saturday, July 29, 2006

Virchow quotes

De: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:SDOH@YORKU.CA] Em nome de Dennis Raphael
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 28 de julho de 2006 18:39
Para: SDOH@YORKU.CA
Assunto: Virchow quotes
These correct citations below are rarely found.

Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing but medicine on a grand scale."
Virchow R. The Charity Physician, Medizinische Reform 1848; No. 18, November 3. In Virchow, R. (1848/1985). Collected Essays on Public Health and Epidemiology. Cambridge, UK: Science History Publications, p. 33.
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Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to raise such questions and to attempt their theoretical solutions; the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution.
Virchow, R. (1848). Report on the typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia. In L.
J. Rather (1985) (ed.) Collected Essays by Rudolph Virchow on Public Health and Epidemiology, Volume 1. Canton MA: Science History Publications, p.217.

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