In many ways, the social determinants of a health “movement” gets medicine back to our roots. Though we can certainly trace some of the philosophical underpinning back to Hippocrates, we don’t need to go that far. Rudolph Virchow, German physician of the 1800s, said “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale...if medicine is really to accomplish its great task, it must intervene in political and social life.” … Download the full article below.