The Rockefeller Foundation, Public Health and International Diplomacy, 1920–1945

219 Pages·2015·1.689 MB·English

by  Josep L Barona

THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, PUBLIC
HEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY,
1920–1945
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Studies for the Society for the Social History
of Medicine
Series Editors: David Cantor
Keir Waddington
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16 Biologics, A History of Agents Made From Living Organisms
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17 Bacteria in Britain, 1880–1939
Rosemary Wall
18 Health and Citizenship: Political Cultures of Health in Modern Europe
Frank Huisman and Harry Oosterhuis (eds)
19 Th e Politics of Hospital Provision in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Barry M. Doyle
20 Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England
Anna Shepherd
21 Psychiatry and Chinese History
Howard Chiang (ed.)
22 Th e Development of Scientifi c Marketing in the Twentieth Century:
Research for Sales in the Pharmaceutical Industry
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23 Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85
Mark Jackson (ed.)
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Th e Politics of Vaccination: A Global History
Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume and Paul R. Greenough (eds)
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THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, PUBLIC
HEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY,
1920–1945
by
Josep L. Barona
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First published 2015 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Li mited
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Barona Vilar, Josep Lluis, author.
Th e Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy,
1920–1945. – (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine)
1. Public health – Europe – History – 20th century. 2. Rockefeller Foundation
3. League of Nations
I. Title II. Series
362.1'094'09042-dc23
ISBN-13: 978-1-84893-567-9 (hbk)
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
List of Tables xi
Abbreviations xiii
A Note on Principal Characters xv
I ntroduction 1
1 International Diplomacy Meets Public Health 5
2 Th e First Great Intervention: Epidemics and Famine in Eastern Europe 59
3 Th e Extension of the Collaborative Programme 75
4 International Health and the End of the League of Nations: Gautier’s
Evaluation 137
5 Some General Conclusions 147
Appendix 1: International Sanitary Conferences, Commissions and
Boards, Previous to the League of Nations (1920) 153
Appendix 2: Health Scheme of the League of Nations for the
Establishment of a Permanent International Health Section 155
Appendix 3: Agreement between the League of Nations Health
Organization and the International Health Board of the
Rockefeller Foundation 161
Works Cited 165
Notes 181
Index 191
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Th is book is the result of research conducted in the frame of two research projects:
‘International Health and the Transfer of Scientifi c Knowledge: Europe 1900–
75’ [funded by the Spanish Government, MINECO, HAR2011–23233] and
‘Th e Transfer of Scientifi c Knowledge on Health: Hunger, Nutrition and Vac-
cines, 1900 –75’ [funded by the Generalitat Valenciana, Prometeo 2012/056].
Th e main research work has been conducted at the League of Nations Library
and Archives (Palais des Nations, Geneva) and at the Rockefeller Archive Centre
(Sleepy Hollow, NY). I am particularly grateful to the Rockefeller Foundation,
which contributed a Research Grant-in-Aid. I would like to thank Mark Pollard
and Keir Waddington for editorial comments and Josep Bernabeu (Universitat
d’Alacant), Ximo Guillem (Universitat de València), Astri Andresen (University
of Bergen), Bartolomé Yun Casalillas (European University Institute, Florence)
and Mark Harrison (University of Oxford) for bracing discussions and fruitful
suggestions. Th e author is most grateful to Jacques Oberson (League of Nations
Archives), Lee R. Hiltzik, Assistant Director and Head of Donor Relations and
Collection Development (Rockefeller Archive Centre) as well as Bethany J.
Antos (Archivist, Rockefeller Archive Centre), for their kind collaboration and
help in the management of archival documents.
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