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The Institute of Human Relations founded at Yale Medical School.

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The institute is a response to the emerging conversation on social inequalities in medicine. Porter (2006) writes: "The aim of the institute was to integrate medicine into research on social inequalities, which would inform the training of physicians to become, in Winternitz's words, 'clinical sociologists.'”