Where "health" comes from
 

Duden 19: "Health, 'as the organized concern for the well-being of others,' is a synthesis of various influences: an icon of the Enlightenment, the demand of philanthropists, the legimation of administrative reformers."
 
internal quote from Jordonova, "Public Health"

> from Barbara Duden's The Women Beneath the Skin A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1998)

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