Description
Book SynopsisDesigned to be read and taught, the book offers a critical historical view, providing historians, policy makers, researchers, program managers, and students with an essential new perspective on the formation and implementation of global-health policies and practices.
Trade ReviewFrequent epidemics of yellow fever, the first disease threatening to destroy continents, and the more recent scourges of HIV/AIDS, SARS, and Ebola show Packard's scope in enlightening readers who are rarely likely to be so captivated by a university publication. This is a powerful book demanding substantial time and attention. Manhattan Book Review A History of Global Health gives us an unrivalled view from within the belly of the beast, revealing the physiology and pathologies of the organism. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations and Tables
Introduction
Part One
1. Colonial Training Grounds
2. From Colonial to International Health
Part Two
3. The League of Nations Health Organization
4. Internationalizing Rural Hygiene and Nutrition
Part Three
5. Planning for a Postwar World
6. A Narrowing Vision
Part Four
7. Uncertain Beginnings
8. The Good and the Bad Campaigns
Part Five
9. The Birth of the Population Crisis
10. Accelerating International Family-Planning Programs
11. Rethinking Family Planning
Part Six
12. Rethinking Health 2.0
13. Challenges to Primary Health Care
Part Seven
14. AIDS and the Birth of Global Health
15. The Global Fund, PEPFAR, and the Transformation of Global Health
16. Medicalizing Global Health
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
