Book ID: CBB000831197

The Politics of the Healthy Life: An International Perspective (2002)

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Rodríguez Ocaña, Esteban (Editor)


European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Publications


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: ix + 288 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents (from publisher): Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña, “The Politics of the Healthy Life: Reflections in an International Setting”; Gerry Kearns and Paul Laxton, “Ethnic Groups as Public Health Hazards: The Famine Irish in Liverpool and Lazaretto Politics”; Pedro Samblás Tilve, “Drug Use in Turn-of-the-Century Spain: From Freedom of Consumption to a Public Health Problem”; Alfredo Menéndez Navarro, “Shaping Industrial Health: The Debate on Asbestos Dust Hazards in the UK, 1928--39”; Shirish N. Kavadi, “`Wolves Come to Take Care of the Lamb': The Rockefeller Foundation's Hookworm Campaign in the Madras Presidency, 1920--28”; Paul Weindling, “From Moral Exhortation to the New Public Health, 1918--45”; John F. Hutchinson, “Promoting Child Health in the 1920s: International Politics and the Limits of Humanitarianism”; Gabriele Moser and Jochen Fleischhacker, “People's Health and Nation's Body: The Modernisation of Statistics, Demography and Social Hygiene in the Weimar Republic”; Marcos Cueto, “Social Medicine in the Andes, 1920--50”; Lion Murard and Patrick Zylberman, “French Social Medicine on the International Public Health Map in the 1930s”; James A. Gillespie, “Social Medicine, Social Security and International Health, 1940--60”.


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Authors & Contributors
Monika Ankele
Adderley, W. Paul
Oliver Betts
Thomas Spain
J. Andrew Charles
Walker, Brett L.
Concepts
Medicine
Public health
Medicine and society
International cooperation
Environmental health; environmental medicine
International relations
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
France
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
United States
Spain
Institutions
Institute of Astronomy at Millimeter Wavelengths (IRAM)
Université de Strasbourg
Institut Pasteur, Paris
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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