Magyar László szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 158-165. (Budapest, 1997-1998)

BARÁTOK, MUNKATÁRSAK, TANÍTVÁNYOK — FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES AND DISCIPLES - Vida Mária: Állammodellek (utópiák) és az egészségügy szociológia

when teaching and research entered wards by the initiative of Boerhaave, and so hospital teaching meant the base of medical training. The term hospital means the activity of physicians, nurses and an administrative organization for the treatment of patients. Our study deals with public health of Utopias the ideal and imagined societies from ancient times until today and investigates the level of medicine in each historical period. The reason why we turn to this subject is, that sociological evaluation leads to philanthropy which involves humanistic, socialistic and communistic principles. In this study author made a comparison between the historical development of Utopian social theories and the social historical examination of medicine and public health. Utopian experiments, Utopian colonies put into practice (the colonies of Jesuits founded in Paraguay just as the American societies at the beginning of the 19th century, the experiments of Owen, Rapp etc.) are the subjects of another study. Writing this study author relied Hungarian special literature necessarily or rather foreign works to be found in Hungary, books on a special subject might be omitted from the point of view of the sociological aspect of this issue. Similarly, the author reported works in the original language to be found in Hungary or paid attention to translation retraceable. Although this method often results different translation (or retranslation) from printed publication, for foreign reader it does not cause substantial difficulty in gathering information.