A History Of Global Health by Randall M. Packard
Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples
A sweeping narrative of efforts to prevent and treat disease around the world, tracing how nineteenth-century sanitary reforms, colonial medicine, missionary work, and rising nation-states gave rise to international health institutions and campaigns led by foundations, governments, and the World Health Organization. It examines technical triumphs like smallpox eradication alongside persistent struggles with malaria, tuberculosis, and later HIV/AIDS, and analyzes the recurring tension between vertical, disease-specific interventions and broader visions of primary health care (including the Alma-Ata moment and its criticisms). The book links shifts in scientific knowledge, philanthropy, geopolitics (including Cold War dynamics), and economic policies to changing priorities and persistent inequalities, arguing that historical power relations and policy choices have shaped—and continue to shape—what we call global health and the prospects for addressing contemporary and future health challenges.
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- 2016
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- American
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- English
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