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Social History of Medicine 1995 8(3):345-359; doi:10.1093/shm/8.3.345
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Historical Perspectives

The Mission of Social History of Medicine: An Historical View

DOROTHY PORTER*

*Department of History Birkbeck College, University of London Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK

SUMMARY This paper analyses the shift in the Society for the Social History of Medicine from public health professionals to full-bloodied approaches drawn from social history. The Bulletin of the Society reflected its vigorous interdisciplinary meetings programme: during the 1980s this matured into a fully ledged Journal and a monographs series as the Society took a crucial role in delivering the disciplinary functions of the history of medicine.

Keywords: public health; social history; Great Britain; societies; journals


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