Of medicine and men : biographies and ideas in European social medicine between the World Wars / edited by Iris Borowy and Anne Hardy.

Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2008.

223 pages : portraits ; 21 cm

Introduction / Iris Borowy -- Selskar 'Mike' Gunn and public health reform in Europe / Socrates Litsios -- Béla Johan (1889-1983) and public health in inter-war Hungary / Erik Ingebrigtsen -- Andrija Štampar (1888-1958): resolute fighter for health and social justice / Željko Dugac -- Melville Mackenzie (1889-1972): 'Feed the people and prevent disease, and be damned to their politics' / Zoe Sprigings -- Actions not words: Thorvald Madsen, Denmark, and international health, 1902-1939 / Anne Hardy -- In the shadow of Grotjahn: German social hygienists in the international health scene / Iris Borowy -- Gustavo Pittaluga (1876-1956): science as a weapon for social reform in a time of crisis / Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña & Iris Borowy -- A posthumous audit: medical biography and the social history of medicine / Patrick Zylberman.

Includes bibliographic references.