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Preferred term

social medicine  

Definition(s)

  • A term to describe nineteenth-century sanitary reform and coined by the Frenchman Jules Guerin in the context of reform following the revolution of 1848. In this approach diseases are seen as the product of the social conditions that allow them to develop (miasma). [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Social Medicine]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-JQ8H90SG-M

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