To Cast Out Disease: A History of the International Health Division of Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951)

ISBN-13: 9780195166316 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication date: 10/16/2003 Pages: 336 Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.20(d) Though one of the most important public health agencies of the 20th century and the most powerful and richest branch of the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Health Division's history (1913-1951) has never been told before. This original work is based on a vast multitude of letters, reports and photographs the author uncovered in the Rockefeller Archives. Farley describes the internal struggles and the conflicts with foreign and US governments of the "medical barons" who ran the organization as they set its goals and tried to eradicate some of the world's most serious diseases. He also describes the first testing of DDT and the preparation for the US army of a yellow fever vaccine that turned out to be contaminated. He takes the reader into the often byzantine world where the organization endowed schools of public health and nursing