RT Journal
T1 SOme british pioneers of social medicine
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD April 2
VO 139
IS 14
SP 968
OP 968
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900310072033
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900310072033
AB A study of British pioneers and pioneering in social medicine in England in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century. The material presented relates to applications of medical and scientific knowledge in prevention and relief of suffering and as a means of elevation of the standards of living through social cooperation. Names of many pioneers in early social medicine are given and work credited to them. The body of factual material, however, relates to the personalities and works of Edwin Chadwick, William Farr, John Simon, Florence Nightingale and Frances Galton. The book is historical in nature and is developed from a series of lectures given by the author. Although much of the material presented is of interest to the profession generally, it is of greater value to those interested in the development of medical statistics and historians of medical-social movements.