January 2017
Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation, written by historian Steven Palmer (University of Windsor, Canada) and published in 2010 by Michigan Press examines the Foundation’s earliest ventures in international health, including its first international mission in 1914.
In 2015 the book was revised, translated into Portuguese and launched by Fiocruz Press with the title of Gênese da saúde global: a Fundação Rockefeller no Caribe e na América Latina.
The Brazilian edition features a new chapter in which Palmer analyzes the consequences of hundreds of deaths caused by overdoses of a new vermifuge used in 1915 during the Rockefeller Foundation’s campaign for the treatment of hookworm disease in Brazil and Colombia.
Steven Palmer at Fiocruz
In the latest issue of HCS-Manguinhos (vol.23 no.4 Rio de Janeiro Oct./Dec. 2016), Rodrigo Cesar da Silva Magalhães reviews the book.
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Global health has a history – “Launching Global Health”, by Steven Palmer, illuminates the role played by international agencies in developing countries. Read the interview with the author.
Magalhães, Rodrigo Cesar da Silva. Nova história da Fundação Rockefeller: a odisseia da saúde global revisitada. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dez 2016, vol.23, no.4, p.1245-1248. ISSN 0104-5970
Hochman, Gilberto and Palmer, Steven. Smallpox eradication and Brazil: an interview with Donald A. Henderson. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2010, vol.17, no.3, p.759-775. ISSN 0104-5970
Palmer, Steven. O Demônio que se transformou em vermes”: a tradução da saúde pública no Caribe Britânico, 1914-1920. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2006, vol.13, no.3, p.571-589. ISSN 0104-5970
