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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Virchow: Medicine, Social Science & Politics

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“Medicine is a social science ...



Medicine as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution; the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution”. Virchow

... and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale.









See also:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolf-Virchow

'Medical sociology' on W2tQ

My source:
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