ABSTRACT

Research into public health policies and expert instruction has been oriented traditionally in the national context. There is a rich historiography that analyses the development of health policies and systems in various European and American countries during the first decades of the twentieth century. What is often ignored, however, is the study of the great many connections and circulations of knowledge, people, technologies, artefacts and practices during that period between countries. This book redresses that balance.

chapter 1|16 pages

Health policies in the twentieth century

A transnational issue

chapter 2|19 pages

Historical origins of health policies

chapter 3|13 pages

Networks of experts

National policies and transnational actors

chapter 5|44 pages

Research for the nation

National hygiene institutes

chapter 6|49 pages

Instructing the experts

National schools of public health

chapter 7|4 pages

Final comments and conclusions