Medicine is a social science
Covid-19 and the tragedy of residential care facilities in high-income countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21880930 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tanja Krones (0000-0001-9880-0564, University of Zurich, corresponding author), Gabriele Meyer (0000-0002-9437-215X, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Settimio Monteverde (0000-0002-7041-2663, Bern University of Applied Sciences) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | e003172 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BMJ Global Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2059-7908 • E-ISSN: 2059-7908 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003172 |
| PMID | 32784211 |
| OpenAlex | W3048917819 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
box When Rudolf Virchow was sent to the region of Upper Silesia in 1848 to investigate the outbreak of typhus, he went as a young scientist, who was later considered as one of the founders of pathology and infectiology.1 He came back as one of the founders of social hygiene and epidemiology and, after his friend Neumann, coined the sentence ‘medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine at a larger scale’2 (figure 1). Figure 1 Title page of the
Cartography · Geography · Nothing · Pathology · Political science · Public health · Social medicine · Social science · Sociology · Typhus · Global Health Care Issues · Healthcare Systems and Challenges · Law · Medicine · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Philosophy · Gerontology
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Politics is nothing but medicine at a larger scale
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |