title: The mission of social history of medicine: an historical view.
abstract: This paper analyses the shift in the Society for the Social History of Medicine from public health professionals to full-blooded approaches drawn from social history. The Bulletin of the Society reflected its vigorous interdisciplinary meetings programme: during the 1980s this matured into a fully fledged Journal and a monographs series as the Society took a crucial role in delivering the disciplinary functions of the history of medicicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of History, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
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authors.lastname: Porter
mesh_terms: D006663:Historiography; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D012952:Societies / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom