This series delves into the compelling history of global health, medicine, and science across diverse worldwide contexts. It offers innovative scholarship on how societal impacts of health and well-being were perceived and measured, from international to local scales. By examining the interconnected histories of medicine, humanitarianism, and global development, the books reconceptualize empires, nation-states, and globalization itself. This collection showcases fresh approaches to understanding the shared past of health and scientific progress globally.
Suman Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual construction of medicine, race, and empire in the eighteenth century. Readers will find medical writers engaging with abolitionism and the care of the enslaved, and will be able to track the ways that medicine created modern notions of racial difference.
A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.
In this examination of the early globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, Laurence Monnais argues that colonialism played a crucial part in the worldwide diffusion of modern medicines, speaking to contemporary concerns regarding over-reliance on pharmaceuticals, self-medication, and the accessibility of effective drug treatments.