Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War
By: John Farley
Publisher: UBC Press; University of British Columbia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780774814768
Subjects: World Health; Cold War; Administrative Personnel; International cooperation; Health services administrators; Santé mondiale; Coopération internationale; Guerre froide; Santé publique; War; History, 20th Century; World health; World Health Organization; Administrateurs de services de santé; International Cooperation; Public health; Histoire; Weltgesundheitsorganisation; Biographies; Organisation mondiale de la santé; History; Public Health; Biography
Description: "This is the story of a man and an institution. Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century. A world-renowned psychiatrist, he was the first director-general of the World Health Organization, and built it up against overwhelming political odds in the years immediately following the Second World War." "During Chisholm's lifetime, the only other Canadians as internationally prominent were Lester B. Pearson and Marshall McLuhan. Yet today he has been largely forgotten - perhaps because he was so controversial. An atheist and a fierce critic of jingoistic nationalism, he supported world peace and world government and became a champion of the United Nations and the WHO."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: First steps, 1945-46; title: Who was Brock Chisholm?; title: Interim Commission, 1946-48: The long wait; title: First World Health assemblies: into the Cold War; title: Money matters; title: Politics matter; title: Social medicine and its decline; title: Tuberculosis: the vaccine controversy; title: Penicillin bullet: syphilis and yaws; title: Malaria and famine; title: Nearly torn apart: the WHO and the Catholic Church; title: Only one term; title: Retirement.