Esta serie profundiza en la fascinante historia de la salud global, la medicina y la ciencia en diversos contextos mundiales. Ofrece becas innovadoras sobre cómo se percibieron y midieron los impactos sociales de la salud y el bienestar, desde escalas internacionales hasta locales. Al examinar las historias interconectadas de la medicina, el humanitarismo y el desarrollo global, los libros reconceptualizan imperios, estados-nación y la propia globalización. Esta colección presenta nuevos enfoques para comprender el pasado compartido de la salud y el progreso científico a nivel mundial.
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.