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American Journal of Public Health, Vol 90, Issue 5 707-715, Copyright © 2000 by American Public Health Association

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Antagonism and accommodation: interpreting the relationship between public health and medicine in the United States during the 20th century

AM Brandt and M Gardner
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. brandt@fas.harvard.edu

Throughout the course of the 20th century, many observers have noted important tensions and antipathies between public health and medicine. At the same time, reformers have often called for better engagement and collaboration between the 2 fields. This article examines the history of the relationship between medicine and public health to examine how they developed as separate and often conflicting professions. The historical character of this relationship can be understood only in the context of institutional developments in professional education, the rise of the biomedical model of disease, and the epidemiologic transition from infectious disease to the predominance of systemic chronic diseases. Many problems in the contemporary burden of disease pose opportunities for effective collaborations between population-based and clinical interventions. A stronger alliance between public health and medicine through accommodation to a reductionist biomedicine, however, threatens to subvert public health's historical commitment to understanding and addressing the social roots of disease.


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