Reconstructing data: Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence-Based Public Health in context Davidovitch, Nadav Filc, Dani Medicina basada en la evidencia Salud pública basada en la evidencia Historia de la salud pública Sociología de la salud Profesión médica Evidence-based medicine Evidence-based public health History of public health Sociology of health Medical profession The emergence of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) as the gold-standard practice in biomedicine and public health practices represents a significant epistemological turn in modern medicine. The development of Evidence-Based Public Health (EBPH) followed the emergence of Evidence-Based Medicine, as an attempt to ground health policies and interventions on «sound facts». The present paper analyzes the historical and sociological roots of this turn. We evaluate the ethical and social consequences of this transformation, both within the medical profession (the polarization between a medical elite which strengthened its professional status, and a rank and file which experienced a process of «de-professionalization») and in its relationship to the welfare state (the link between the medical elite, EBM, EBPH and the commodification of health care and public health). 2022-11-07T13:19:48Z 2022-11-07T13:19:48Z 2006 journal article Davidovitch, Nadav. «Reconstructing data : evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence-Based Public Health in context». Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, 2006, Vol. 26, p. 287-306. 0211-9536 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/77805 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Universidad de Granada