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<\/a>Coming soon! The book will be\u00a0released by Cambridge University Press in May 2019.<\/p><\/div>\n
The book The World Organization: A history<\/a>, written by\u00a0Marcos Cueto<\/span>\u00a0 (science\u00a0editor of HCSM),\u00a0Theodore M. Brown<\/span>\u00a0(University of Rochester) and<\/span>\u00a0Elizabeth Fee\u00a0(in memorian,\u00a0<\/span>National Library of Medicine)\u00a0was\u00a0<\/span>released by Cambridge University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n This comprehensive\u00a0book explores the history of the World Health Organization\u00a0\u00a0looking\u00a0at it’s origins and institutional antecedents, while also considering its contemporary and future roles.<\/p>\n It examines how the WHO was shaped by the postwar period and the Cold War, the influence of the US and other approaches to healthcare, and its place alongside sometimes competing international bodies such as UNICEF, the World Bank, and the Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n The authors re-evaluate the relative success and failure of critical WHO campaigns, from early malaria and smallpox eradication programs to struggles with Ebola today.<\/p>\n Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n Advance praise: \u2018Finally, an up-to-date history of the World Health Organization. This deft account spans the institution’s aspirational post-World War II beginnings, the tensions and turnarounds of the Cold War period, and the embattled contemporary era of private encroachment on WHO turf. The authors bring together the contentious politics, personae, and programs through a grand narrative and little-known inside stories.’ Anne-Emanuelle Birn – University of Toronto<\/p>\n Advance praise: \u2018This long-awaited volume by three distinguished historians of public health, does not disappoint. Though the general lines of this history are familiar, this extensively researched, clearly written volume greatly enriches this history, providing new details on nearly every page, and situating the WHO within the wider history of global political change.’ Randall Packard – The Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n See in Manguinhos:<\/p>\n In Memoriam: Dr. Elizabeth Fee<\/a>\u00a0– We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Elizabeth Fee on October 17, 2018. Dr. Fee was a remarkable and influential public health historian.<\/p>\n \u201cEntre 30 y 35% de los diagn\u00f3sticos son muy tard\u00edos\u201d<\/a>\u00a0– Una breve entrevista con Massimo Ghidinelli, Jefe de la Unidad de VIH de la Organizaci\u00f3n Panamericana de la Salud, sobre el perfil epidemiol\u00f3gico actual del SIDA en Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe.<\/p>\n Una enfermedad sin precedentes en las Am\u00e9ricas<\/a>\u00a0– Jos\u00e9 Moya,epidemiologo de la OPS\/OMS Argentina, analiza las respuestas de los gobiernos de Am\u00e9rica Latina al zika y las consecuencias reveladas por la enfermedad.<\/p>\n Health is not a commodity<\/a>\u00a0– See the Brazilian Contribution (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and National Health Council) to the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, Astana, October 2018.<\/p>\n A divided US: The unexpected electoral victory of Trump<\/a>\u00a0– Theodore Brown, professor of history at the University of Rochester analyses the victory of Donald Trump and the reactions of the progressive political forces in the US.<\/p>\n Brown, Theodore M., Cueto, Marcos and Fee, Elizabeth.\u00a0A transi\u00e7\u00e3o de sa\u00fade p\u00fablica \u2018internacional\u2019 para \u2018global\u2019 e a Organiza\u00e7\u00e3o Mundial da Sa\u00fade<\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2006, vol.13, no.3, p.623-647. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n