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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on September 8, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(6):575; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl122
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorial

René Dubos and Jared Diamond dream of Dutch polders

Johan P. Mackenbach*

* Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Correspondence: Johan P. Mackenbach, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, 3000, DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, e-mail: j.mackenbach@erasmusmc.nl

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‘Optimism, despite it all’ is the title of the last chapter of the last book written by René Dubos, the greatest of 20th century public health writers.1 Dubos was born in 1901 in France, studied agronomics, and emigrated to the United States in 1924 to start a career in microbiology. He is most known for his writings about ecology and human health. He received the 1969 Pulitzer prize for his bestselling So Human an Animal, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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