EDITORIAL
Public health history
Making public health history usable: the launch of a new series in JECH
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Virginia Berridge
Centre for History in Public Health, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT; UK http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/history
The launch of a new series in JECH
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Public health is a historically conscious subject, and the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has always published papers that deal with historical topics. In 2004, an editorial appeared which announced the launch of a new series, "Public health past and present".1 Since then, I have been encouraging historians to present the results of their work to this non-historical audience. After refereeing and reviewing, we are now ready to start the series and the first paper appears in this issue.
The aim is to present the best new historical work to a public health audience, and, in doing so, to bring historical perspectives to bear on current issues, to open up new perspectives on events in the past and thereby to suggest possible avenues for the future.
Public health is already far from history-free. It is common for its leadership to refer to the past in order
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