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Introduction
1 The First Steps, 1945-46
2 Who Was Brock Chisholm?
3 The Interim Commission, 1946-48: The Long Wait
4 The First World Health Assemblies: Into the Cold War
5 Money Matters
6 Politics Matter
7 Social Medicine and Its Decline
8 Tuberculosis: The Vaccine Controversy
9 The Penicillin Bullet: Syphilis and Yaws
10 Malaria and Famine
11 Nearly Torn Apart: The WHO and the Catholic Church
12 Only One Term
13 Retirement
Notes
Bibliography
Index
This is the story of a man and an institution: Brock Chisholm,world-renowned psychiatrist, one of the most influential Canadians ofthe twentieth century, and first director-general of the World HealthOrganization, which he built up against overwhelming political oddsafter the Second World War.
John Farley is retired from Dalhousie University inHalifax, where he taught the history of science and medicine. He haspublished several books on the subject.
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