“Kindly see to the matter”: Local communities and the development of rural public health, 1870–1920

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: Health and development 1
4. “Kindly see to the matter”: Local communities and the development of rural public health, 1870–1920 31
5. Development, sanitation, and international public health in Mexico (1881– 1911) 59
6. Medicine, health, and development in Indonesia 83
7. Soviet medical assistance and the making of Mongolian healthcare: geopolitics, ideology, and transformation of a traditional nomadic society, 1923–1947 115
8. Gatekeepers for the Third Reich: public health officers, forced labor and the control of epidemics 147
9. Rallying around the magic wand: Visions of social medicine, public health and disease control in India 1946–1957 175
10. Between God and rifle: Catholic Church, development and health in 1950s Brazil 201
11. Triumph or tragedy: unintended consequences of political planning and social engineering in Maoist China 229
12. Mechanization of night soil disposal in postwar Japan 255
13. The World Bank’s advocacy of user fees in global health, c.1970–1997: more ideology than evidence? 277
14. The origins of social determinants of health and universal health coverage at the World Health Organization, 2005–2015 317