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Andresen, Astri et al. (eds.): International and Local
Diseases do not naturally respect boundaries. Although their origins may be local, their diffusion often becomes international, borne by trade, war and other modes of human or animal contact. Combatting disease – or promoting health –
Detaljer/Details
The contributions discuss the activities of the League of Nations Health Organization and the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation; the role of public health experts in Spain; aspects of health care for the mentally ill in Britain, Germany and Norway; the medical “otherness” of women; and the international and local response to bacterial invasion and colonization.
Content
Astri Andresen, William H. Hubbard and Teemu Ryymin: International and local approaches to health and health care 7
Iris Borowy: The League of Nations Health Organization: from European to global health concerns? 11
Josep L. Barona: Public health experts and scientific authority 31
Volker Roelcke: Changing historiographies and professional identities: Nazi medical atrocities in post-World War II German psychiatry 49
Val Harrington: Learning about mental health services through local histories: case studies from the
Øyvind Thomassen: Diagnosing the criminal insane in
Anne Kveim Lie: Constructing “the other”: menstruation as pathology in
Anne Hardy: Us and them: bacterial invasion and colonization in the twentieth century 115
Contributors 130
ISBN 978-82-7099-606-3, 130 pages, paperback
Format: 17x24 cm, weight 0,3 kg, year of publication 2010, language: English
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