Abstract
The entry of social science into the health field is exciting news—at least to those who for a long time have been preaching that medicine and public health are really applied social sciences, because their goal is to apply scientific techniques to the welfare of people. Henry Sigerist, Michael Davis, C-E. A. Winslow, René Sand, Andrija Stampar, Jacques Parisot, James Mackintosh have been saying this in the languages of their respective countries since at least 1920; Alfred Grotjohn, Arthur Newsholme, Max Pettenkofer, Richard Cabot, and others before them. But these men were physicians or health administrators and not formally trained social scientists. Moreover, the sad truth is that most of their medical colleagues paid little attention to them.
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