Abstract
Thirty years ago, the proposal of a textbook entitled Urban Family Medicine would undoubtedly have been greeted with skepticism. The field known at that time as general practice was in a state of decline. The number of general practitioners had decreased by 40,000 since 1931, even as the number of physicians in the United States had grown by more than 20,000.1 Many in the medical community welcomed this decline as a modernizing influence on the profession, creating room for specialists who, it was claimed, were better capable of managing the explosion of new medical technologies. As for a text specifically dealing with urban health, the timing would again have seemed inappropriate; large segments of the American populace were moving from the central districts of cities to the new communities of the suburbs, and physicians were moving with them.
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Rothschild, S.K. (1987). Urban Family Medicine: An Historical Overview. In: Birrer, R.B. (eds) Urban Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4624-4_1
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