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The rights and responsibilities of health citizenship are increasingly at the forefront of public policy debates concerning disease prevention and health management. These debates have global implications for prosperity, equality, and stability in dramatically changing demographic, economic, political and ecological environments. This collection of essays are intended to lead the reader to an understanding of the history of public health, the rise of the modern state, the role of the social sciences in population health promotion, and the changing social contract of health citizenship in industrial and post-industrial societies --

Preliminary Material --Introduction /Dorothy Porter --Milton C. Winternitz and the Yale Institute of Human Relations: A Brief Chapter in the History of Social Medicine /Arthur J. Viseltear --Training Doctors for the National Health Service: Social Medicine, Medical Education and the GMC 1936–48 /Nigel Oswald --Making Medicine Social: The Case of the Two Dogs with Bent Legs /Ann Oakley --The Decline of Social Medicine in Britain in the 1960s /Dorothy Porter --Social Medicine and Medical Sociology 1950–1970: The Testimony of a Partisan Participant /Margot Jefferys --The Dilemma of Social Pathology /Uta Gerhardt --The Social Space of Illness /David Armstrong --Medicine, Diet and Moral Regulation: Foucault's Impact on Medical Sociology /Bryan S. Turner --Index /Dorothy Porter --Back Matter /Dorothy Porter.

The history of collective action aimed at disease prevention amongst populations is replete with complexity in the operation of political power which has transformed in its deployment over time. This article draws upon examples from pre-modern and from modern European states to examine variations in the operation of biopower under pandemic authority. It concludes by contextualizing comparable models of political authority responding to the contemporary COVID-19 pandemic including the operation of pandemic biopower in the United States.

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The essay examines how the academic discipline of social medicine was founded in Britain in the 1940s as a political mission. The original conception of social medicine was built upon a collection of beliefs about the nature of science and medicine which were shared by various branches of the profession who identified with diverse social values. The synthesis of ideas that created the discipline, however, were integrated into a specifically left‐wing philosophy of social reform. This medicine of society for society emerged from the politics of science, ethics and society in the Second World War. As an expression of scientific humanism social medicine aimed to fulfil the ethical dictates of the modern evolutionary synthesis and be part of the rising tide of corporate welfarism. The paper concentrates on how its intellectual founder, John Ryle, believed this could be achieved by changing clinical medicine into a new discipline of holistic socio‐biology of health and disease.