Published April, 2019
By Marcos Cueto, Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Global Health Histories
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A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.

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Published April, 2019
By Marcos Cueto, Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Global Health Histories
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Availability: Available

A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.

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Published November, 2018
By Lukas Engelmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Global Health Histories
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This new and unique visual history of AIDS focuses on the AIDS atlas, published by dedicated clinicians between 1986 and 2008. The epidemic's history is retold through clinical photographs, epidemiological maps and icons of HIV asking how this devastating epidemic has come to be seen as a controllable chronic condition.

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Published November, 2018
By Dóra Vargha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Global Health Histories
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Hungary was one of the first countries to introduce a national oral vaccination campaign against polio, built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West. Dora Vargha uses a series of polio epidemics in communist Hungary to understand the response to a global public health emergency in the midst of the Cold War. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Published August, 2018
By Hans Pols
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Global Health Histories
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This history of medicine in Indonesia widens its scope to cover the social role of the medical profession. Pols' focus on decolonisation and the role of physicians in this political process means this study will appeal not only to historians of medicine but also to historians of Southeast Asia.

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