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To Cast Out Disease: A History of the International Health Division of Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951)
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by John Farley
Sales Rank: 639983
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 336 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USAEdition: 1st Edition October 16, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195166310
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195166316
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Review
"In this endeavour it succeeds quite well. It is well researched, highly readable, and even witty at times. To be sure, the conquest of infectious disease makes for a good story and while it is easy to get lost in the names and the places, the results speak for themselves." --International
Epidemiology Association
"John Farley's book is a good read. Well written, generally free of opinion and jargon, and dependent largely on primary sources, it chronicles the rise and decline of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1913 to 1951." --JAMA
"will render an important service to researchers"--
edical History
"Overall there is much to recommend Farley's bookfill[s] this longstanding gap in the history of global public health."--Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Product Description
Though one of the most important public health agencies of the 20th century and the most powerful and richest branch of the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Health Division's history (1913-1951) has never been told before. This original work is based on a vast multitude of letters,
reports and photographs the author uncovered in the Rockefeller Archives. Farley describes the internal struggles and the conflicts with foreign and US governments of the "medical barons" who ran the organization as they set its goals and tried to eradicate some of the world's most serious
diseases. He also describes the first testing of DDT and the preparation for the US army of a yellow fever vaccine that turned out to be contaminated. He takes the reader into the often byzantine world where the organization endowed schools of public health and nursing in such diverse places as
London, Toronto, fascist Rome, militaristic Tokyo, and Calcutta in the dying days of the British Raj.
Farley enlivens the book with sketches of the personalities and prejudices of those who worked in the Division and of the scandals that rocked it from time to time. He shows that in the continuing debate between those who believe that disease is the root cause of ill health and poverty and those
who see poverty as the primary cause, the Division remained firmly in the former position. He also shows that after it closed, former members exerted considerable influence on the development of the World Health Organization. Opposing some recent historians, Farley argues against the view that the
Health Division served as an advance guard for American capitalism. His lively book will be welcomed by all who are interested in the history of public health, tropical disease, and medical institutions.
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