To cast out disease
Subtitle: a history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951)
By: John Farley.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Rockefeller Foundation -- International Health Division.; Medicine -- Research -- United States -- International cooperation.; Public health -- Research -- United States -- International cooperation.; Medicine -- Research -- History.; Research -- United States -- International coooperation.
Description: Based on extensive primary research, this book is enlivened with character sketches and descriptions of the conflicts among the "medical barons" who ran the division as they attempted to eradicate many serious diseases and to set up schools of public health and nursing around the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.