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The concept of "artificial epidemics" is created to refer to poverty-based infections.

Date: 1848

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Coined by Rudolf Virchow following a typhus epidemic in Berlin, this phrase frames illness and disease as a response to social factors and not just germs, which will become a foundation of the framework for social medicine. Virchow states that: “medicine is a social science and politics is nothing but medicine on a grand scale."