Introduction: The Fever of International Health
A Match Made in Heaven?
Hooked on Hookworm
Going Local
You Say You Want an Institution
Ingredients of a Relationship
Epilogue: International Health's Convenient Marriage
An impressive piece of scholarship.
*HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW*
Based on an impressive array of documents culled from archival
collections in Mexico and the United States. . . . Birn expertly
weaves the story of public health in Mexico, and the role played by
the Rockefeller Foundation in shaping it, into the larger history
of the revolutionary Mexican politics and reform efforts. . . .
Despite the density of information provided, Birn's analysis is
always focused, and she consistently shows the reader the
connections between high politics and the day-to-day undertaking of
public health.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, April 2008*
[A] work of rare maturity and insight . . . Birn's study is
essential reading for students of Mexican history, scholars of
international and global health, and those interested in the nature
of global philanthropy.
*BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, 2008*
Birn's book helps us track an evolving circulation of ideas,
people, practices, and power and provides an invaluable . . .
insight into today's world of international health.
*Charles E. Rosenberg, Ernest Monrad Professor of the Social
Sciences, Harvard University*
Birn gives a prescient, nuanced, and deeply intelligent account of
the relationship between the Rockefeller Foundation and the state
in shaping public health in post-revolutionary Mexico. Brilliantly
written in a highly inviting style, this is an 'absolute must-read'
for academics, policy makers, and activists concerned with the past
and increasingly complex face of global health in the future.
--James Orbinski, Associate Professor of Medicine and Political
Science, University of Toronto, and former international President
of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders
*.*
This impeccably researched, extremely accessible volume sets a new
standard for studies of international public health. Steeped in
recent innovative scholarship on global health, transnationality,
and the close and often incongruous imperial encounters that
circumscribe philanthropic initiatives, Marriage of Convenience
crafts a richly textured account of the Rockefeller's extended
relationship with Revolutionary Mexico. --Gilbert M. Joseph, Farnam
Professor of History and International Studies, Yale University,
and co-editor of Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural
History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
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