History in Public Health

a New Development for History?

Authors

  • Virginia Berridge London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,UK.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3384/hygiea.1403-8668.001123

Keywords:

Public health, history, historian

Abstract

The article considers the current focus of historical interest within the public health field and then makes suggestions for how a more extensive history in public health could develop.It considers the role of historians in such developments.Historians should be careful not to become the handmaidens of public health and retain a detached stance, while none theless forming part of the public health scene.

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Published

1999-11-09

How to Cite

Berridge, V. (1999). History in Public Health: a New Development for History?. Hygiea Internationalis: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the History of Public Health, 1(1), 23–35. https://doi.org/10.3384/hygiea.1403-8668.001123

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (1999)

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 1999 the Author(s)

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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