To cast out disease : a history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951)
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To cast out disease : a history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951)
Oxford University Press, 2004
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  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Though one of the most important public health agencies of the 20th century and the most powerful and richest branch of the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Health Division's history (1913-1951) has never been told before. This original work is based on a vast multitude of letters, reports and photographs the author uncovered in the Rockefeller Archives. Farley describes the internal struggles and the conflicts with foreign and US governments of the
"medical barons" who ran the organization as they set its goals and tried to eradicate some of the world's most serious diseases. He also describes the first testing of DDT and the preparation for the US army of a yellow fever vaccine that turned out to be contaminated. He takes the reader into the often
byzantine world where the organization endowed schools of public health and nursing in such diverse places as London, Toronto, fascist Rome, militaristic Tokyo, and Calcutta in the dying days of the British Raj.
Farley enlivens the book with sketches of the personalities and prejudices of those who worked in the Division and of the scandals that rocked it from time to time. He shows that in the continuing debate between those who believe that disease is the root cause of ill health and poverty and those who see poverty as the primary cause, the Division remained firmly in the former position. He also shows that after it closed, former members exerted considerable influence on the development of the
World Health Organization. Opposing some recent historians, Farley argues against the view that the Health Division served as an advance guard for American capitalism. His lively book will be welcomed by all who are interested in the history of public health, tropical disease, and medical
institutions.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- PART I: ROSE'S VISION
- 2. The First Stage: Rose's Vision
- 3. Rose's Vision: Tuberculosis in France (1917-1924)
- PART II: DISEASE ERADICATION
- 4. The First Hookworm Campaigns (1913-1920)
- 5. Retreat from Hookworm (1920-1930)
- 6. Yellow Fever: From Coast to Jungle
- 7. Malaria: Killing Mosquitoes and Anophilines (1915-1935)
- 8. World War II: DDT, Typhus, and Malaria
- 9. Malaria: The Ultimate Kill
- PART III: A RESEARCH PROGRAM
- 10. Reorganization and Research Laboratories (1928-1940)
- 11. Yellow Fever Vaccines: A Slap in the Face
- 12. Disease for Research
- PART IV: TRAINING THE EXPERTS
- 13. Frustrations in Sao Paulo: The Wrong Step in Rio
- 14. Northern Lights: London and Toronto
- 15. Rough Seas: Prague, Rome, Tokyo
- PART V: FINALE
- 16. Post-War Confusion: What To Do Next?
- 17. Conclusion: Swinging Pendulums
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