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Health Policies in Interwar Europe
Research into public health policies and expert instruction has been oriented traditionally in the national context. There is a rich historiography that analyses the development of health policies and systems in various European and American countries during the first decades of the twentieth century. What is often ignored, however, is the study of the great many connections and circulations of knowledge, people, technologies, artefacts and practices during that period between countries. This book redresses that balance.
Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain
This book explores the popular and elite debates over the creation of a two-sex model of human bodies in eighteenth-century Spain.
Budapest's Children
In the aftermath of World War I, international organizations descended upon the destitute children living in the rubble of Budapest and the city became a testing ground for how the West would handle the most vulnerable residents of a former enemy state. Budapest's Children reconstructs how Budapest turned into a laboratory of transnational humanitarian intervention. Friederike Kind-Kovács explores the ways in which migration, hunger, and destitution affected children's lives, casting light on children's particular vulnerability in times of distress. Drawing on extensive archival research, Kind-Kovács reveals how Budapest's children, as iconic victims of the war's aftermath, were used to mo...
Women and the Rise of Nutrition Science in Interwar Britain and British Africa
In the wake of the Great Depression, economic recovery and nutritional improvement in Britain simultaneously occurred with their decline in British Africa. While histories of science, medicine and British Empire have provided fertile analytical ground for decades, the field of nutrition science has received comparatively little attention. Widespread malnutrition between the World Wars called into question the role of the British state in preserving the welfare of both its citizens and its subjects, especially women, given their role in feeding their families. International organizations such as the League of Nations, empire- wide projects such as nutrition surveys conducted by the Committee ...
El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939
This book is a biography of Pueblonuevo del Terrible, a mining town located in Andalusia, Spain. Based on previously unexamined sources, the study paints a fresh portrait of industrial workers and their families in Córdoba province, enriching our understanding of this mostly agricultural region. Previous studies of laboring communities in Spain have identified radical workers, miners among them, as a destabilizing element due to their insurgent protest activity, including lethal violence. This study, by contrast, describes both worker activism and cross-class organizing as constructive, not destructive, and aimed at integration into Spanish society. Economically, the mining zone was dominat...
The World Health Organization
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.
Biografies mèdiques, sanitat municipal, educació sanitària i epidèmies en la Ribera del Xúquer durant el segle XX
La Ribera del Xúquer ha rebut molta atenció per banda dels historiadors des de fa molt de temps. Reunions científiques locals i comarcals, monografies, revistes d’història i de cultura, butlletins municipals o llibrets de falla, han possibilitat el conreu de molt diverses temàtiques al voltant de l’escenari que vertebra el Xúquer. Treballs que fins i tot han permès la publicació d’una monumental història de la comarca. Tanmateix, aspectes tan importants en la història de la humanitat com són la salut i la malaltia, la medicina i la salut pública, no han rebut l’atenció que mereixen. Aquest volum pretén ser una aportació en aquest sentit. Oferim deu treballs, alguns signats per especialistes en la matèria amb reconegut prestigi internacional, i d’altres per historiadors que han fet també les seues aportacions al tema.
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
The Rockefeller Foundation, Public Health and International Diplomacy, 1920-1945
Based on extensive archival research, this study examines the role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of spreading good health, creating a revolution in public health practice.
Private Aid, Political Activism
This book explores American medical relief to Spain and China in the 1930s and 1940s as responses to the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War. Although serving vastly different peoples in strikingly distant landscapes, the three aid organizations focused on here illustrate a transition in how Americans responded to foreign conflict and how humanitarian aid was used as a political tool. The story of these small and relatively unknown organizations can help refine historical understanding of the development of humanitarianism and the evolution of global citizenship in the twentieth century.
