This book integrates history into that relentless onslaught of health information and the concern about health statistics or health policy. We provide context for the here and now, and analysis of change over time. We examine the factors involved in making change happen, the alternative models, the roles of individuals, of social movements and of scientific theories in the process. In this book, we examine the practical uses of history, something considered in detail in thefi nal chapter of the book as well as in each topic chapter. But please bear in mind that all health issues and resp
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