PEP | Article - Galdston, Iago. (Ed.) Social Medicine; Its Derivations and Objectives. [New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1949. Pp. 294. $2.75.]

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Abstract

This volume is the result of the New York Academy of Medicine Institute on Social Medicine for 1947. There are twenty-six authors. The volume is divided into seven sections: Changing Concepts of the Relation of Medicine to Society, Its (Social Medicine) Differentiation From and Relation to Clinical and Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology in Social Medicine, The Place of Nutrition in Social Medicine, Social Psychiatry and Social Medicine, Social Applications of Psychiatry, and Social Medicine the Appeal of the Comman Man. Those interested in social medicine will find the volume written by authoritative men in the field.