Marcos Cueto, Theodore M. Brown (New York University of Rochester), Elizabeth Fee

The World Health Organization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.

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Produktdetails

• Global Health Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781108728843
• ISBN-10: 1108728847
• Artikelnr.: 54433248

Autorenporträt

Marcos Cueto is Professor of the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro the main Brazilian biomedical institute, and is co-editor of the journal História, Ciências Saúde - Manguinhos. His book, co-authored with Steven Palmer, Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History (Cambridge, 2015) won the 2017 George Rosen award of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The making of an international health establishment
2. The birth of the World Health Organization, 1945-8
3. The start-up years, 1948-55
4. The Cold War and eradication
5. Overcoming the warming of the Cold War: smallpox eradication
6. The transition from 'family planning' to 'sexual and reproductive rights'
7. The vicissitudes of primary health care
8. The response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic
9. An embattled director-general and the persistence of the WHO
10. The competitive world of global health
11. The World Health Organization in the second decade of the twenty-first century.