Rudolf Virchow and disease prevention and health promotionin the 21st century

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-581830
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.58183

Lange, Klaus W.

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Abstract

The German pathologist and politician Rudolf Virchow played a pivotal role in promoting social medicine and improving public health in the 19th century. Virchow’s main achievements include his characterisation of medicine as a social science as well as a biological science. His fundamental goals included the founding of the practice of medicine on the exact sciences as well as the prevention of ...