title: [Hygiene issues in polish academic centres of the period of twenty years of Poland's independence after World War I].
abstract: Within the discipline as such, among Polish scientists of the period of twenty years of independence after the World War I, there was no agreement as to the understanding of the area of hygiene interests and as to the role of it. On one poend it was placed a concept of hygiene as the remedy towards the basic sanitary inadvertences, covering only narrow segments of relationship between the organism condition and individual environment elements of positive or negative importance for health. This depiction was bringing a hygienist closer to such disciplines as physiology, pathophysiology, toxicology, bacteriology etc., it imposed typically natural point of view and research workshop. On the second end the issue of health has been considered within the broad social and cultural context. In such a meaning hygiene goes beyond the narrow concept of medicine, since the latter has not been able to replace the shortages of civilisation and it has not been interested in issues of cultural adaptation of desired sanitary behaviour. As a matter of fact, both views have been excluding each other, adopting different and "incommensurate" visions of the "world and human being" as well as methodological depictions. In the time under discussion, within Polish territories, a thesis, that individual health has a social dimension, makes a considerable economic value, decides on the defence abilities of state, so it is in the interest of the whole society the care for health of all members of society - was still having virtues of uniqueness. It was going like that despite earlier activity of many outstanding Polish hygienists, giving fruits both in information campaigns planned on a wide scale and civilisation experiments. ...
authors.affiliation: Zakład Historii Medycyny i Farmacji, Poznań.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jeszke
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jeszke
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006920:Hygiene / Q000266:history*; D011044:Poland; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Problematyka higieniczna w polskich ośrodkach akademickich okresu miedzywojennego (1919-1939)