The Health Museum
Medical Museums feature disease ; Health Museums aim at better health for more people, health being understood as being physically and mentally at ease.
Abstract
HEALTH Museums are science museums specialising in human biology, personal and public health. They have preventive medicine as their father and health education as their mother. They address themselves more to the people than to the professional groups. Their emphasis is on normal growth and development, on the maintenance of health rather than on disease information and on hygiene of environment. They feature Man and his heredity, his development from his earliest stage to old age. As the present adult generation has received only a scanty biological education the Health Museum introduces Man to himself.. Medical Museums feature disease ; Health Museums aim at better health for more people, health being understood as being physically and mentally at ease.