Shifting boundaries of public health : Europe in the twentieth century / edited by Susan Gross Solomon, Lion Murard, and Patrick Zylberman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Solomon, Susan Gross, editor.

Murard, Lion, editor.

Zylberman, Patrick, editor.

Series:

Rochester studies in medical history ; 12.

Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715 ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Europe--History--20th century.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In contrast to histories of twentieth century public health that focus exclusively on the local, national, or international levels, 'Shifting Boundaries' explores the connections or 'zones of contact' between the three levels. The interpretive essays, written by distinguished historians of public health and medicine, focus on four topics: the oscillation between governmental and non-governmental (public) agencies as sites of responsibility for addressing public health problems; the harmonization of nation states' agendas with those of international agencies; the development by public health experts of knowledge that is both placeless and respectful of place; and the transportability of model solutions across borders. The volume breaks new ground in its treatment of public health as a political endeavor by highlighting strategies to prevent or alleviate disease as a matter not simply of medical techniques, but of political values and commitments. Contributors: Peter Baldwin, Iris Borowy, James A. Gillespie, Graham Mooney, Lion Murard, Dorothy Porter, Sabine Schleiermacher, Susan Gross Solomon, Paul Weindling, and Patrick Zylberman. Susan Gross Solomon is professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Lion Murard and Patrick Zylberman are both senior researchers at CERMES (Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société), CNRS-EHESS-INSERM, Paris.

Contents:

Can there be a democratic public health? fighting AIDS in the industrialized world / Peter Baldwin

The social contract of health in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : individuals, corporations, and the state / Dorothy Porter

American foundations and the internationalizing of public health / Paul Weindling

Maneuvering for space : international health work of the League of Nations during World War II / Iris Borowy

Europe, America, and the space of international health / James A. Gillespie

Designs within disorder : international conferences on rural health care and the art of the local, 1931-39 / Lion Murard

Contested spaces : models of public health in occupied Germany / Sabine Schleiermacher

British public health and the problem of local demographic structure / Graham Mooney

A matter of "reach" : fact-finding in public health in the wake of World War I / Susan Gross Solomon

A transatlantic dispute : the etiology of malaria and the redesign of the Mediterranean landscape / Patrick Zylberman.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-322) and index.

ISBN:

1-58046-455-6

1-283-01131-X

9786613011312

1-58046-750-4

OCLC:

703155207