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OverviewThis 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 choosing to test-run the prototype for their global project in the nearest and clearest domain of American imperial influence. This book examines the nature and evolution of those hookworm campaigns in British Guiana, Costa Rica, Trinidad, and Guatemala, as well as relevant evidence from Nicaragua and Panama. The 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Steven PalmerPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.625kg ISBN: 9780472070893ISBN 10: 0472070894 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 30 May 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis remarkable and superbly written book should have an impact on historians and anthropologists analyzing the role play by international agencies in the organization of medicine and public health in developing countries. --Marcos Cueto, Hispanic American Historical Review, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos --Marcos Cueto Hispanic American Historical Review (08/01/2011) Steven Palmer's Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation is a very welcome addition to the fascinating body of literature on the international health work of the Rockefeller Foundation. --Margaret Jones, Oxford University, Medical History Review --Medical History (07/29/2011) With a clear and engaging narrative that delves into complex and debatable issues and, at the same time, tells very entertaining stories, this book is a wonderful addition to the historiography of international health. ---Diego Armus, Swarthmore College This remarkable and superbly written book should have an impact on historians and anthropologists analyzing the role play by international agencies in the organization of medicine and public health in developing countries. -- Marcos Cueto, Hispanic American Historical Review, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos Steven Palmer's Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation is a very welcome addition to the fascinating body of literature on the international health work of the Rockefeller Foundation. --Margaret Jones, Oxford University, Medical History Review --Medical History (07/29/2011) With a clear and engaging narrative that delves into complex and debatable issues and, at the same time, tells very entertaining stories, this book is a wonderful addition to the historiography of international health. ---Diego Armus, Swarthmore College This remarkable and superbly written book should have an impact on historians and anthropologists analyzing the role play by international agencies in the organization of medicine and public health in developing countries. --Marcos Cueto, Hispanic American Historical Review, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos --Marcos Cueto Hispanic American Historical Review (08/01/2011) This remarkable and superbly written book should have an impact on historians and anthropologists analyzing the role play by international agencies in the organization of medicine and public health in developing countries. -- Marcos Cueto, Hispanic American Historical Review, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos Author InformationDr. 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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