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Coronary Heart Disease and the Public Health 1850–1983
Author(s) -
Bartley Mel
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9566.1985.tb00291.x
Subject(s) - coronary heart disease , public health , epidemiology , portrait , reading (process) , disease , sociology , medicine , history , social science , political science , cardiology , pathology , law , art history
A historical and sociological re‐reading of the literature on a post Second World War epidemic of coronary heart disease provides some insight into ways in which public health texts may be analysed as official portraits of social problems. Historical epidemiology can be enriched by a careful consideration of the social processes underlying the designation and use of diagnostic categories.