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A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples by Randall Packard (review)

A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples by Randall Packard... Book Reviews 113 that govern mutual and shifting relations among society, disease ecology, and climate synthesizing some immature fields. It may have been the right time for Campbell to place a capstone on his distinguished career, but it is too soon to get the definitive word on his subject. J. R. MCNEILL Georgetown University A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples.By RANDALL PACKARD. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 432 pp. $65.00 (hardcover); $35.00 (paper). Also available as an e-book. At the time of writing this review the World Health Organization is in the final stages of appointing a new Director General. The field has been narrowed down from six candidates to three, who will now go forward for selection by the World Health Assembly in May. By the time this review is published the new Director General, the eighth since 1948, will be in position, and the organisation will be preparing to mark its seventieth anniversary. The WHO and its partners around the world can look back on successes such as the landmark eradication of smallpox and improvements in health for millions around the world, but also much unfulfilled promise. The world is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples by Randall Packard (review)

Medcalf, Alexander
Journal of World History , Volume 29 (1) – Mar 1, 2018
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Book Reviews 113 that govern mutual and shifting relations among society, disease ecology, and climate synthesizing some immature fields. It may have been the right time for Campbell to place a capstone on his distinguished career, but it is too soon to get the definitive word on his subject. J. R. MCNEILL Georgetown University A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples.By RANDALL PACKARD. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 432 pp. $65.00 (hardcover); $35.00 (paper). Also available as an e-book. At the time of writing this review the World Health Organization is in the final stages of appointing a new Director General. The field has been narrowed down from six candidates to three, who will now go forward for selection by the World Health Assembly in May. By the time this review is published the new Director General, the eighth since 1948, will be in position, and the organisation will be preparing to mark its seventieth anniversary. The WHO and its partners around the world can look back on successes such as the landmark eradication of smallpox and improvements in health for millions around the world, but also much unfulfilled promise. The world is

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Published: Mar 1, 2018

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