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Changing Definitions of the History of Public Health
Full text linkThis article examines the transformation from earlier to contemporary historiographical interpretations of the development of public health systems in relation to the construction of political states. It reviews the changing foci of histories of epidemic and chronic diseases and argues that this work has been central to expanding the conceptual basis for public health history as the ’history of collective actions in relation to the health of populations’. The article subsequently argues that, therefore, public health history is inherently bound to the history of political collectivism as a form of knowledge constructed through systems of ideological belief
History in Public Health: a New Development for History?
Full text linkThe 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