Philanthropic Foundations and the Globalization of Scientific Medicine and Public Health

by Page, Benjamin; Valone, David

• ISBN13: 9780761838197
• ISBN10: 0761838198
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-11
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Presents proceedings of a conference jointly sponsored by Quinnipiac University and the Rockefeller Archive Center with additional support from the Dreyfus Health foundation held, c2003. Topics include evaluation and accountability, globalizing primary care, need for diversity in models of medicine, and more. For public policy makers. Softcover.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Historical Considerations
Evaluation and Accountability: with a case study of the Early Rockefeller Foundation	p. 3
The Rockefeller Foundation's 1925 Malaria Film: A Case Study in Early Public Health Filmmaking	p. 14
Foundations, Eugenic Sterilization, and the Emergence of the World Population Control Movement	p. 35
Selskar Gunn and Paul Russell of the Rockefeller Foundation: A Contrast in Styles	p. 44
Globalizing Primary Care: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the Development of Community-Based Approach to Public Health in Sri Lanka-What Can We Learn?	p. 56
Of Mice, Vaccines and Men: The Yellow Fever Research Program of the Rockefeller Foundation in Colombia, 1932-1948	p. 73
"Working through government" and "working in close co-operation with government": A Perspective on the Rockefeller Public Health Program in Colonial India	p. 96
The Contemporary Scene
Community Based Primary Health Care Empowerment and Equity	p. 115
The Need for Diversity in Models of Medicine	p. 125
Agenda-Setting Diseases	p. 130
Systems Reform-Seeking the Holy Grail	p. 141
Faith-Based Organizations Field Perspectives on Sustainable Heathcare	p. 150
Malaria and International Health Organizations	p. 159
Obligations and Accountability in International Public Health: State and Non-State Actors	p. 165
Toward Tomorrow
Racing Against the Global Industrial Hangover-Thoughts on Surviving the Morning After	p. 175
Index	p. 185
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