What is Social Medicine?

Matthew R. Anderson, Lanny Smith, and Victor W.
Sidel

Monthly Review, January 2005


Available online at
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0105anderson.htm
<http://www.monthlyreview.org/0105anderson.htm>


"........Although he was not the first to point out the
links between society and health, the German physician,
Rudolf Virchow, is considered by many to be the founder of
social medicine. Virchow was one of the great pathologists
of the nineteenth century, most notably contributing to the
understanding of disease at the cellular level. He was also
keenly aware of the social origins of illness. In 1848,
while working as a staff physician at the Royal Charité
Hospital in Berlin, he investigated an outbreak of typhus in
the Prussian province of Upper Silesia. Virchow identified
social factors, such as poverty and the lack of education
and democracy, as key elements in the development of the
epidemic....."


Matt Anderson, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor,
Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine
718 933-2400 x644 fax: 718 367-8168 www.socialmedicine.org
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