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August 2006, Vol 96, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1383
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.090084

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Andrija Stampar: Charismatic Leader of Social Medicine and International Health

Theodore M. Brown and Elizabeth Fee

Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Reprint requests should be sent to Theodore M. Brown, PhD, History Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail: theodore_brown@urmc.rochester.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

ANDRIJA STAMPAR, ONE OF the most charismatic and beloved figures in 20th century public health, was born in the village of Drenovac, Croatia, on September 1, 1888. His father was a schoolteacher who, because of his liberal views, had to move frequently to escape the consequences of his political convictions.1 Young Andrija absorbed his father’s values and, though a brilliant student, sometimes came into conflict with his teachers when he asserted his right to be a "free thinker."2 After graduating from gymnasium in 1906, he enrolled at the University of Vienna Medical School. There he was attracted to Ludwig Teleky’s . . . [Full Text]






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