The Value of Health
A History of the Pan American Health Organization
Marcos Cueto
Marcos Cueto, a widely published medical historian, presents an appealing and well-documented narrative that describes the origins of public health and the creation of PAHO and culminates with the Organization's response to globalization and its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals. The history of PAHO's institutional heritage, notes the author, is "a rich testimony to the depth and breadth of health's value . . . as an indispensable requirement for peace, security, tolerance, and solidarity . . . and a means of achieving equity . . . in all social spheres."
Marcos Cueto is professor in the School of Public Health at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, and editor of Missionaries of Science: The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America (Indiana University Press, 1994).
For information about the Spanish language version of this book, visit:
http://publications.paho.org/spanish/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=770
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DETAILS
7 b/w illustrations
Size: 9 x 6 in
10 digit ISBN: 1580462634
13 digit ISBN: 9781580462631
Binding: Paperback
First published: 28/Feb/2007
Price: 29.95 USD / 17.99 GBP
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
Subject: History of Science & Medicine
BIC class: AVH
STATUS: Print on demand (please allow 3 weeks for delivery)
Details updated on 28/08/2008
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Contents
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Pan American Health Organization - history
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Public Health - history
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Health Plans and Programs
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Preventive Medicine
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Right to Health
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Latin America
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Reviews
It is not overstating the case to say that this account may be seen as a model of how to approach the "internationalization of medicine"... this study shows the indisputable significance of the Pan-American Health Organization in the fight against disease.... By reconstructing history from the perspective of science, [this work] offers new and exciting visions and contributes to the enrichment of our understanding of the history of the Americas in the twentieth century. HISTORIA, 2005
A lively and engaging account that portrays the trajectory of the Pan-American Health Organization as that of an entity simultaneously producing, and produced by, the politico-socio-economic scenario of the American continent and also shaped by innovations in the medico-biological field. CAD. SAUDE PUBLICA, 2005
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