IDSB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Imperial Units, Malaria, Atlantic Slave Trade
16 Sep 2020
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The historical origins of modern international (and global) health. Key questions: when and why did governments (elected, hereditary, and despotic), moneyed interests (elites, merchants, business owners, etc. Antecedents of modern international health: black death, colonial. The menace of malaria and the rise of tropical medicine. Comparative colonial approaches in the "tropical" disease era. Industrialization, urbanization, and the emergence of modern public health. The bacteriological turn in industrial and imperial contexts. Box 1- 2 rationales for colonial health and tropical medicine. The health occupation of cuba and the panama canal. Health cooperation in and beyond europe: the long journey from. International health institution-building: the lnho and the inter-war years. Box 1- 4 rockefeller foundation principles of international. Box 1- 5 early international health organizations, location, and. International (and global) health is not simply a technical arena but was (and is) intertwined with and molded by powerful social, political, economic, cultural, and scientific factors and resources.
