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Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation (Conversations in Medicine and Society)
Steven Palmer
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Hardcover. Offers an in-depth look at the Rockefeller Foundation's earliest ventures in international health. This study takes into account the late 19th-century backdrop and considers events through to about 1930 when most of the International Health Board hookworm campaigns had evolved into public health projects of a different nature. Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 maps, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
This is an in-depth look at the Rockefeller Foundation's earliest ventures in international health. From the Rockefeller Foundation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S. philanthropies have played a leading role in the evolution of international health. ""Launching Global Health"" is about the Rockefeller Foundation's very first initiative abroad. The foundation's flagship, the International Health Board, made its first call in British Guiana in March 1914 to experiment with its new 'American Method' for the treatment of hookworm disease. Within months the agency was involved in ambitious hookworm programs in six Central American and Caribbean sites, its directors self-consciously ... Read more
This is an in-depth look at the Rockefeller Foundation's earliest ventures in international health. From the Rockefeller Foundation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S. philanthropies have played a leading role in the evolution of international health. ""Launching Global Health"" is about the Rockefeller Foundation's very first initiative abroad. The foundation's flagship, the International Health Board, made its first call in British Guiana in March 1914 to experiment with its new 'American Method' for the treatment of hookworm disease. Within months the agency was involved in ambitious hookworm programs in six Central American and Caribbean sites, its directors self-consciously ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Conversations in Medicine and Society
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472070893
SKU
V9780472070893
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About Steven Palmer
Dr. Steven Palmer is Canada Research Chair in the History of International Health at the University of Windsor and author of From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940.
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