Questa serie approfondisce l'affascinante storia della salute globale, della medicina e della scienza in diversi contesti mondiali. Offre studi innovativi su come gli impatti sociali della salute e del benessere sono stati percepiti e misurati, da scale internazionali a quelle locali. Esaminando le storie interconnesse di medicina, umanitarismo e sviluppo globale, i libri riconcettualizzano imperi, stati-nazione e la globalizzazione stessa. Questa collezione presenta nuovi approcci per comprendere il passato condiviso della salute e del progresso scientifico a livello globale.
Suman Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual construction of medicine, race, and empire in the eighteenth century. Readers will find medical writers engaging with abolitionism and the care of the enslaved, and will be able to track the ways that medicine created modern notions of racial difference.
A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.
In this examination of the early globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, Laurence Monnais argues that colonialism played a crucial part in the worldwide diffusion of modern medicines, speaking to contemporary concerns regarding over-reliance on pharmaceuticals, self-medication, and the accessibility of effective drug treatments.