Research into public health policies and expert instruction has been oriented traditionally in the national context. There is a rich historiography that analyses the development of health policies and systems in various European and American countries during the first decades of the twentieth century. What is often ignored, however, is the study of the great many connections and circulations of knowledge, people, technologies, artefacts and practices during that period between countries. This book redresses that balance.
Author(s): Josep L. Barona
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: viii+178
Health Policies in Interwar Europe- front Cover
Health Policies in Interwar Europe
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1: Health policies in the twentieth century: a transnationalissue
Why transnational history?
Circulating science and technology
The civilising process and homo hygienicus
Chapter 2: Historical origins of health policies
From public health to social medicine: the politicaldimension of disease
The birth of public health
International diplomacy and national institutions
The Office Internationale d’Hygiène Publique and theLeague of Nations
Chapter 3: Networks of experts: national policies and transnationalactors
Health and international diplomacy
Creating expert knowledge
Public health experts as transnational actors
Chapter 4: The relevance of international organisations
Transnational actors guiding health research and health policies: the historical context of national health institutes
Legitimising arguments: moral values, health, and economy
Chapter 5: Research for the nation: National hygiene institutes
Bacteriology, a cornerstone for colonial medicine
Origins and impact of the Pasteur Institute
Robert Koch-Institut in Berlin
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and nationalresearch institutes in Britain
Social medicine and sanitary policies in Hungary
National Institute of Hygiene and Public Health in Poland
Central Institute of Hygiene in Belgrade
Prague as a social hygiene laboratory
Alfonso XIII National Institute of Hygiene in Madrid
Public health institutes in Scandinavia
Chapter 6: Instructing the experts: national schools of public health
Teaching the experts: more than a national issue
National schools and public health experts
The international model: Johns Hopkins School of PublicHealth in Baltimore
Teaching hygiene in European nations: France, GreatBritain, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Rumania,Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Spain
International initiatives: courses in London and Paris
The great failure: École Internationale d’Hautes Étudesd’Hygiène [International School of Advanced Studiesin Hygiene]
Chapter 7: Final comments and conclusions
Sources and bibliography
Sources
Bibliography
Index
