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A word of explanation may be in order. The history of the origins of education in public health is hardly a mainstream subject; indeed I know of no evidence that it is a subject at all. Yet my interest in it arose for a simple practical reason.
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Acheson, R.M. (1990). The Origins, Content and Early Development of the Curriculum in State Medicine and Public Health 1856 – 1895. In: Laaser, U., Wolters, P., Kaufmann, F.X. (eds) Gesundheitswissenschaften und öffentliche Gesundheitsförderung. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75091-5_4
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