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The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920-1945 / by Josep L. Barona.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barona Vilar, Josep Lluis, author.
- Series:
- Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; no. 24.
- Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; number 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Europe--International cooperation--History--20th century.
- Public health.
- Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Board.
- Rockefeller Foundation.
- Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Division.
- Health Organisation.
- Public Health--history.
- International cooperation.
- History.
- Europe.
- International Cooperation--history.
- International Agencies--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Public Health--history.
- Europe.
- International Cooperation--history.
- International Agencies--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 200 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Brookfield, Vermont, USA : Pickering & Chatto, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In the years after the First World War, living conditions across much of Europe were poor, and public health authorities were forced to locus on social issues such as diet and sanitation. Based on extensive archival research, this study examines the role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period, Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of spreading good health: defining problems, identifying opportunities and aiming at achievable goals, creating a revolution in public health practice. The series is concerned with all aspects of health, illness and medicine, from antiquity to the present, in all parts of the globe. Its interests include the circumstances that promote health or illness, the ways in which people experience and explain such conditions and what, practically, they do about them. Practitioners of medicine, nursing, psychiatry, pharmacy, biomedical science and vernacular healing come within its ambit; as do hospitals and hospices, patients and politicians, priests and pill-pushers, wise-women and witches, and all concerned with medicine in its widest sense. Methodologically, the series welcomes approaches derived from social history, as well as relevant studies in economic, cultural and intellectual history. It also seeks to encourage historical work that employs the insights of related disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, demography and epidemiology, as well as literary, science and policy studies. The series is a collaboration between Pickering Chatto and the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM). The SSHM has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the histories of medicine, welfare, public health, demography, anthropology, sociology, social administration and health economics. Its membership is drawn from those interested in a variety of disciplines, including history of health, welfare, medical science and practice. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Abbreviations; A Note on Principle Characters; Introduction; 1 International Diplomacy Meets Public Health; 2 The First Great Intervention: Epidemics and Famine in Eastern Europe; 3 The Extension of the Collaborative Programme; 4 International Health and the End of the League of Nations: Gautier's Evaluation ; 5 Some General Conclusions; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Works Cited; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 12, 2015).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Barona, Josep L The Rockefeller Foundation, Public Health and International Diplomacy, 1920-1945
- ISBN:
- 9781781447925
- 1781447926
- 9781781447932
- 1781447934
- Publisher Number:
- 99965395287
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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