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A history of global health : interventions into the lives of other peoples / Randall M. Packard.

By: Packard, Randall M, 1945- [author.].
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016Description: xii, 414 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781421420325 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9781421420332 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Global Health -- history | History, 19th Century | History, 20th Century | History, 21st CenturyGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Colonial training grounds -- From colonial to international health -- The League of Nations Health Organization -- Internationalizing rural hygiene and nutrition -- Planning for a postwar world : the legacy of social medicine -- A narrowing vision : international health, technology, and cold war politics -- Uncertain beginnings -- The good and bad campaigns -- The birth of the population crisis -- Accelerating international family planning programs -- Rethinking family planning -- Rethinking health, 2.0 : the rise of primary health care -- Challenges to primary health care -- AIDS and the birth of global health -- The global fund, PEPFAR and the transformation of global health -- The medicalization of global health.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Colonial training grounds -- From colonial to international health -- The League of Nations Health Organization -- Internationalizing rural hygiene and nutrition -- Planning for a postwar world : the legacy of social medicine -- A narrowing vision : international health, technology, and cold war politics -- Uncertain beginnings -- The good and bad campaigns -- The birth of the population crisis -- Accelerating international family planning programs -- Rethinking family planning -- Rethinking health, 2.0 : the rise of primary health care -- Challenges to primary health care -- AIDS and the birth of global health -- The global fund, PEPFAR and the transformation of global health -- The medicalization of global health.

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