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This is the story of a man and an institution. A world-renowned psychiatrist and first director-general of the World Health Organization, Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century, yet is little-known today.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1 The First Steps, 1945-46
2 Who Was Brock Chisholm?
3 The Interim Commission, 1946-48: The Long Wait
4 The First World Health Assemblies: Into the Cold War
5 Money Matters
6 Politics Matter
7 Social Medicine and Its Decline
8 Tuberculosis: The Vaccine Controversy
9 The Penicillin Bullet: Syphilis and Yaws
10 Malaria and Famine
11 Nearly Torn Apart: The WHO and the Catholic Church
12 Only One Term
13 Retirement
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: MN - University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: 6/3/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780774814768, 978-0774814768
      ISBN10: 0774814764

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is the story of a man and an institution. A world-renowned psychiatrist and first director-general of the World Health Organization, Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century, yet is little-known today.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      1 The First Steps, 1945-46
      2 Who Was Brock Chisholm?
      3 The Interim Commission, 1946-48: The Long Wait
      4 The First World Health Assemblies: Into the Cold War
      5 Money Matters
      6 Politics Matter
      7 Social Medicine and Its Decline
      8 Tuberculosis: The Vaccine Controversy
      9 The Penicillin Bullet: Syphilis and Yaws
      10 Malaria and Famine
      11 Nearly Torn Apart: The WHO and the Catholic Church
      12 Only One Term
      13 Retirement
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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