A history of global health : interventions into the lives of other peoples / Randall M. Packard.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

xii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Colonial training grounds -- From colonial to international health -- The League of Nations Health Organization -- Internationalizing rural hygiene and nutrition -- Planning for a postwar world : the legacy of social medicine -- A narrowing vision : international health, technology, and cold war politics -- Uncertain beginnings -- The good and bad campaigns -- The birth of the population crisis -- Accelerating international family planning programs -- Rethinking family planning -- Rethinking health, 2.0 : the rise of primary health care -- Challenges to primary health care -- AIDS and the birth of global health -- The global fund, PEPFAR and the transformation of global health -- The medicalization of global health.