Tot behoud van de gezondheid. Leefregels en een sociaal programma op wetenschappelijke basis

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In Preservation of One's Health. Scientific Rules of Conduct and a Social Program as Proposed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Nineteenth-century Dutch doctors (MDs) were interested in preventive medicine, and formulated a program based on people's social nature. By closely observing the social conditions affecting health and the resulting policy constraints, they developed a new perspective on the usefulness of professional medical therapies. Both public and private hygiene were viewed as key components of a health doctrine to be spread by the government and by individual instruction. MDs' professional domain thus extended beyond their medical competence. More recently, ecologists and health advisors have expanded into different fields of preventive medicine. 52 References. Adapted from the source document.