public health Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/public-health/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 11:05:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 There is death in the pot https://bshm.org.uk/there-is-death-in-the-pot/ https://bshm.org.uk/there-is-death-in-the-pot/#respond Sat, 30 Jan 2021 12:35:47 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=11849 On the bicentenary of chemist Freidrich Accum, J.D. Dayan and A.D. Dayan discuss how his public-health legacy to expose ‘food adulteration’ has been largely forgotten… The essential importance of using new scientific discoveries in the public interest is a belief that has long been preached, but few have had the drive and understanding to put […]

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