Hygiea International : An Interdisciplinary Journal for the History of Public Health

Hygiea Internationalis 2007 6(2): 13–35

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Author:

Iris Borowy

Publication title:

International Social Medicine between the Wars : Positioning a Volatile Concept

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Article

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10.3384/hygiea.1403-8668.077113

Language:

English

Abstract:

International health work during the 1930s was influenced by several inter-acting developments which caused general attention to turn away from pathogens and individual diseases to social conditions and their impact on the status of public health.
Internationally, the League of Nations Health Organisation became the centre of initiatives in social medicine. After 1932, the search for the health implications of the depression invigorated ongoing social studies. Thus, nutrition, housing and rural hygiene became major issues, followed by discussions on sports. All these topics had important political connotations because they touched sensitive questions of welfare, status and the distribution of wealth and poverty within societies. In the process, they opened discussions on abstract issues like social and moral justice and on tangible questions of political systems.

Keywords:

Social medicine, League of Nations Health Organisation, interwar health, nutrition, depression, housing, rural hygiene

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Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet

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2007

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2007-12-27

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13–35

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Hygiea Internationalis : An Interdisciplinary Journal for the History of Public Health

ISSN (print):

1403-8668

ISSN (online):

1404-4013

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http://www.ep.liu.se/ej/hygiea/v6/i2/a03/hygiea07v6i2a3.pdf

CITATIONS IN

Amalia Ribi Forclaz (2011). A New Target for International Social Reform: The International Labour Organization and Working and Living Conditions in Agriculture in the Inter-War Years, Contemporary European History, 20, 307–329. DOI: 10.1017/S0960777311000336

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Borowy, Iris (2007). International Social Medicine between the Wars : Positioning a Volatile Concept in Hygiea Internationalis 6(2): 13–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/hygiea.1403-8668.077113 ( )