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Aubrey Lewis' Paper on Health as a Social Concept Reconsidered in the Light of Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Barbara Wootton
Barbara Wootton*
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Abinger, High Barn, Abinger Common, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6JH
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It was only after much hesitation that I accepted your flattering invitation to contribute to this meeting in commemoration of Aubrey Lewis. On the one hand, I have the natural diffidence of a layman amongst experts. But as against this, although we were of the same generation, I cannot but be moved by a feeling akin to filial piety towards one whose work I so greatly admired, and to whom I am indebted for so many personal acts of kindness and generosity as I have been to Aubrey Lewis. I hope, therefore, that since the latter emotion has prevailed you will think it fitting that I should ask you to look back, from the standpoint of nearly a quarter of a century later, at the impressive paper on Health as a Social Concept which Aubrey Lewis read to the British Sociological Association in 1953.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 131 , Issue 3 , September 1977 , pp. 243 - 248
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1977 

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