title: The health thinkers: clarifying health determinants but not upsetting sinners.
abstract: Probably no health thinker has played a greater part than Professor Tom McKeown in bringing medical practice in modern society under close and critical scrutiny. He has accomplished this not by a ruthless assessment of individual clinical therapies, but by linking the role of medicine to the wider issues within epidemiology.
mesh_terms: D004813:Epidemiology; D006666:History of Medicine; D010819:Physician's Role; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012380:Role; D012936:Social Medicine; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom