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A history of global health : interventions into the lives of other peoples

Designed to be read and taught, the book offers a critical historical view, providing historians, policy makers, researchers, program managers, and students with an essential new perspective on the formation and implementation of global-health policies and practices.
Print Book, English, ©2016
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©2016
xii, 414 p. : il. ; 23 cm
9781421420325, 9781421420332, 1421420325, 1421420333
1026092710
Colonial training grounds
From colonial to international health
The League of Nations Health Organization
Internationalizing rural hygiene and nutrition
Planning for a postwar world : the legacy of social medicine
A narrowing vision : international health, technology, and cold war politics
Uncertain beginnings
The good and bad campaigns
The birth of the population crisis
Accelerating international family planning programs
Rethinking family planning
Rethinking health, 2.0 : the rise of primary health care
Challenges to primary health care
AIDS and the birth of global health
The global fund, PEPFAR and the transformation of global health
The medicalization of global health