| Description |
viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715 ; v. 12 |
|
Rochester studies in medical history. 1526-2715 ; v. 12
|
| Contents |
Introduction / Susan Gross Solomon, Lion Murard, and Patrick Zylberman -- Part I. Place as politics -- 1. Can there be a democratic public health? fighting AIDS in the industrialized world / Peter Baldwin -- 2. The social contract of health in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : individuals, corporations, and the state / Dorothy Porter -- Part II. Carving out the international -- 3. American foundations and the internationalizing of public health / Paul Weindling -- 4. Maneuvering for space : international health work of the League of Nations during World War II / Iris Borowy -- 5. Europe, America, and the space of international health / James A. Gillespie -- Part III. Preserving the local -- 6. Designs within disorder : international conferences on rural health care and the art of the local, 1931-39 / Lion Murard -- 7. Contested spaces : models of public health in occupied Germany / Sabine Schleiermacher -- 8. British public health and the problem of local demographic structure / Graham Mooney -- Part IV. Navigating between international and local -- 9. A matter of "reach" : fact-finding in public health in the wake of World War I / Susan Gross Solomon -- 10. A transatlantic dispute : the etiology of malaria and the redesign of the Mediterranean landscape / Patrick Zylberman -- Selected bibliography |
| Summary |
"European public health was a playing field for deeply contradictory impulses throughout the twentieth century. In the 1930s, international agencies were established with great fanfare and post-war optimism to serve as the watch tower of health the world over. Within less than a decade, local level institutions began to emerge as seats of innovation, initiative, and expertise. But there was continual counter pressure from nation states that jealously guarded their policy-making prerogatives in the face of the push for cross-national standardization and the emergence of original initiatives from below." |
|
"In contrast to histories of twentieth century public health that focus exclusively on the local, national, or international levels, Shifting Boundaries explores the connections or "zones of contact" between the three levels. The interpretive essays, written by distinguished historians of public health and medicine, focus on four topics: the oscillation between governmental and non-governmental (public) agencies as sites of responsibility for addressing public health problems; the harmonization of nation states' agendas with those of international agencies; the development by public health experts of knowledge that is both placeless and respectful of place; and the transportability of model solutions across borders."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-322) and index |
| Subject |
Public health -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
History, 20th Century.
|
|
Public Health -- history.
|
| SUBJECT |
Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060 |
| Genre/Form |
Essays.
|
| Author |
Murard, Lion.
|
|
Solomon, Susan Gross.
|
|
Zylberman, Patrick.
|
| LC no. |
2008005776 |
| ISBN |
1580462839 |
|
9781580462839 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
|
