In social medicine people with many different skills work jointly with the physician as ' Doctors for the Community '
These six programmes about some of the problems facing them are planned for all those who are concerned with the people's health
1: Old and New
A continuous watch is kept on the changing pattern of health and disease in the community: new trends need new safeguards. This programme considers an occupational disease of cotton workers, long known but only now fully studied; the changing cancer hazards of the environment: poverty and affluence and their effect on health
Speakers:
Richard Schilling
Professor of Occupational Health London School of Hygiene and' Tropical Medicine
FRANCIS ROE
Reader in Experimental Pathology Chester Beatty Research Institute
MAURICE BACKETT
Professor of Social Medicine University of Aberdeen
Introduced by J. N. MORRIS
Professor of Public Health
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Hon. Director of the M.R.C. Social Medicine Research Unit
Produced by Rosemary Jellis
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