title: From social medicine to social psychiatry: the achievement of Sir Aubrey Lewis.
abstract: A brief account is given of the evolution of the concept of social psychiatry and its relationship to that of social medicine. The central role played in its scientific development by Sir Aubrey Lewis is traced in some detail.
mesh_terms: D003158:Community Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006113:United Kingdom