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New perspectives on the secular trend in pulmonary TB in post-war Japan (1953-1980).
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Scandinavian entry points to social medicine and postcolonial health: Karl Evang and Halfdan Mahler in India.
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Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skou's Vej 5, DK-8000Aarhus C, Denmark.
Our contributions examine the Norwegian Karl Evang's (1901-1981) and the Dane Halfdan Mahler's (1923-2016) participation in international health co-operation facilitated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in India in the 1950s. While Evang's was a hectic, but relatively short visit as part of a WHO visiting team of medical scientists in 1953, Mahler's spanned the entire decade on assignments as WHO medical officer to tuberculosis control projects. Mahler's name should be familiar to researchers of international health as the Director-General of the WHO 1973-88, and for his promotion of primary health care through the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"Jüdisch versippt" and "materialistic": The marginalization of Walther E. Berblinger (1882-1966) in the Third Reich.
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May 2019
Institute for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Wendlingweg 2, 52074 Germany. Electronic address:
The pathologist Walther Berblinger (1882-1966) became famous for his scientific studies on internal secretion, namely on the pathology of the pituitary and the pineal gland. The results of his research on the hormonal control of the reproductive system contributed significantly to the consolidation of the young discipline of endocrinology. His later pioneering work on the use of chemotherapeutics in tuberculosis was similarly important.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[The Regional Features of Development of the System of Children Health Care in the Kabardino-Balkaria in XX Century].
Probl Sotsialnoi Gig Zdravookhranenniiai Istor Med
January 2019
The Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education "The Kh. M. Berbekov Kabardino-Balkar State University" of Ministry of Education of Russia, 360004, Nalchik, Russia.
The development of health care of children in the Kabardino-Balkaria in XX century at all its stages is associated with the development of system of protection children health in Russia. To combat children mortality and to protect children health, preventive and social hygienic direction was developed. Under the leadership of local health care authorities, a network of children medical institutions was re-established in Kabarda and pediatricians began to work.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"… a life broken in two" Walter Pagel (1898-1983)-Famous pathologist and victim of Nazi Germany.
Pathol Res Pract
March 2019
Institute for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Wendlingweg 2, 52074 Germany. Electronic address:
There is no doubt that Walter Pagel (1898-1983) is one of the most outstanding figures in the history of pathology. Not only his fundamental research on tuberculosis and various other fields of pathology but also his historicomedical publications set international standards and earned him numerous honors throughout the scientific world. Far less known is the fact that Pagel, as a German Jew, was one of the victims of the "Third Reich": He was dismissed from his job in Heidelberg, felt forced to emigrate in 1933 and fought for reparation after 1945.
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