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Social Medicine across the Ages.
The cover image takes its theme from Dorothy Porter's article, which looks at the historical roots of social medicine and asks where it is heading. The article is part of a special collection of eleven magazine pieces and five original research papers examining social and cultural aspects of medicine and health and the socioeconomic determinants of disease.
Image Credit: Cover design by Natalie Davis, Public Library of Science, with images from the US Library of Congress (an image used by Dorothy Porter in her article) and Tavis Ford
Citation: (2006) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 3(10) October 2006. PLoS Med 3(10): ev03.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v03.i10
Published: October 31, 2006
Copyright: © 2009 Public Library of Science. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The cover image takes its theme from Dorothy Porter's article, which looks at the historical roots of social medicine and asks where it is heading. The article is part of a special collection of eleven magazine pieces and five original research papers examining social and cultural aspects of medicine and health and the socioeconomic determinants of disease.
Image Credit: Cover design by Natalie Davis, Public Library of Science, with images from the US Library of Congress (an image used by Dorothy Porter in her article) and Tavis Ford