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What Sets the Goals of Public Health?
N Engl J Med 1958; 258:589-596March 20, 1958DOI: 10.1056/NEJM195803202581205
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I AM deeply grateful to those who have honored me by this invitation; the more so, because I am a layman, unqualified in the sciences of your field. I comfort myself with the reflection that we are all laymen for most of our time, especially in a field so close as yours is to problems of decision and action. And further, that it is as laymen, not as academics, that we make our most daring speculations. The scientist with a reputation to lose may not speculate too far beyond the evidence, at least in public, but the layman with a . . .
*Presented at a public-health forum at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, November 26, 1957. Published simultaneously in the Lancet (March 22, 1958) by special arrangement.
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