LEADER 03821nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910780857403321 005 20231206213919.0 010 $a1-282-45735-7 010 $a9786612457357 010 $a0-7748-1478-0 024 7 $a10.59962/9780774814782 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007469 035 $a(OCoLC)759490852 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10348833 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000433919 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11925636 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000433919 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10394181 035 $a(PQKB)10535031 035 $a(CaPaEBR)422128 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00223491 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3412597 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348915 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245735 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/z9j65x 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/f5j2g4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3412597 035 $a(DE-B1597)661269 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780774814782 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3265393 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007469 100 $a20071206d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBrock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War$b[electronic resource] /$fJohn Farley 210 1$aVancouver :$cUBC Press,$dc2008. 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7748-1477-2 311 $a0-7748-1476-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFirst steps, 1945-46 -- Who was Brock Chisholm? -- Interim Commission, 1946-48: The long wait -- First World Health assemblies: into the Cold War -- Money matters -- Politics matter --Social medicine and its decline -- Tuberculosis: the vaccine controversy -- Penicillin bullet: syphilis and yaws -- Malaria and famine -- Nearly torn apart: the WHO and the Catholic Church -- Only one term -- Retirement. 330 $aThis is the story of a man and an institution. Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century. A world-renowned psychiatrist, he was the first director-general of the World Health Organization, and built it up against overwhelming political odds in the years immediately following the Second World War. During Chisholm's lifetime, the only other Canadians as internationally prominent were Lester B. Pearson and Marshall McLuhan. Yet today he has been largely forgotten ? perhaps because he was so controversial. An atheist and a fierce critic of jingoistic nationalism, he supported world peace and world government and became a champion of the United Nations and the WHO. Official histories of the WHO place the organization in a political vacuum, but John Farley focuses on the battles Chisholm and his allies waged during the early Cold War, as the United States and the Soviet Union eyed each other warily and the Roman Catholic Church flexed its muscle on morally sensitive medical issues. Post-1945 international politics, global health issues, and medical history intersect in this highly readable account of a remarkable Canadian. 606 $aWorld health 606 $aPublic health$xInternational cooperation 606 $aCold War 606 $aHealth services administrators$zCanada$vBiography 615 0$aWorld health. 615 0$aPublic health$xInternational cooperation. 615 0$aCold War. 615 0$aHealth services administrators 676 $a362.106/01 700 $aFarley$b John$f1936-$01469584 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780857403321 996 $aBrock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War$93726591 997 $aUNINA