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Author Farley, John, 1936-

Title To cast out disease : a history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951) / John Farley
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The first stage: means to an end -- Ch. 3. Tuberculosis in France (1917-1924) -- Ch. 4. The first hookworm campaigns (1913-1920) -- Ch. 5. Retreat from hookworm (1920-1930) -- Ch. 6. Yellow Fever: from coast to jungle -- Ch. 7. Malaria: killing mosquitoes and anophelines (1915-1935) -- Ch. 8. World War II: DDT, typhus, and malaria -- Ch. 9. Malaria: the ultimate kill -- Ch. 10. Reorganization and research laboratories (1928-1940) -- Ch. 11. Yellow Fever vaccines: a slap in the face -- Ch. 12. Diseases for research -- Ch. 13. Frustrations in Sao Paulo; the wrong step in Rio -- Ch. 14. Northern lights: London and Toronto -- Ch. 15. Rough seas: Prague, Rome, Tokyo, and Calcutta -- Ch. 16. Postwar confusion: what to do next? -- Ch. 17. Conclusion: swinging pendulums
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Division.
SUBJECT Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Division fast
Subject Medicine -- Research -- United States -- International cooperation
Public health -- Research -- United States -- International cooperation
Medicine -- Research -- History
Research -- United States -- International cooperation
Foundations -- history
Public Health -- history
Communicable Disease Control -- history
History, 20th Century
International Cooperation -- history
Research -- history
MEDICAL -- Research.
Medicine -- Research
Medicine -- Research -- International cooperation
Public health -- Research -- International cooperation
Research -- International cooperation
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199749089
0199749086