The evolution of community medicine. Part 1, The rise of the public health movement.

Date:
1984
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The first in an 8-part series of short lectures by Sidney Chave from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The series charts the rise of the Public Health Movement and the different ways this initial reform evolved into community medicine. This lecture deals with the very foundation of the Public Health Movement, beginning with the Great Reform Act of 1832. Chave then looks in much detail at the work of Edwin Chadwick who was inspired by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham. In 1842, Chave wrote an influential report on the sanitary conditions of the working people of Great Britain. Although his report was not immediately effective, it was to revolutionise ideas about public health in the decades to come.

Publication/Creation

London : University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1984.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (27.55 min.) : sound, color, PAL.
1 videocassette (Umatic) (27.55 min.) : sound, color, PAL.
1 videocassette (digibeta) (27.55 min.) : sound, color, PAL.
1 DVD (27.55 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

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University of London

Notes

This video is one of around 310 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest. The lectures mostly take place in a small and intimate studio setting and are often face-to-face. The lecturers use a wide variety of resources to illustrate their points, including film clips, slides, graphs, animated diagrams, charts and tables as well as 3-dimensional models and display boards with movable pieces. Some of the lecturers are telegenic while some are clearly less comfortable about being recorded; all are experts in their field and show great enthusiasm to share both the latest research and the historical context of their specialist areas.

Creator/production credits

Presented by Sidney Chave, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Produced by John Winn and Paul Wilks. Edited by David Crawford. Made for British Postgraduate Medical Federation. Made by University of London Audio-Visual Centre.

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