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Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Marta A. Bali

ska. For the Good of Humanity: Ludwik Rajchman, Medical Statesman. Translated by Rebecca Howell. Budapest: Central European University Press. 1998. Pp. xvii, 293. $36.95.

Brilliant, opinionated, and relentlessly energetic, the Polish doctor Ludwik Rajchman was arguably the leading builder and activist in the field of international health during the first half of the twentieth century. Surprisingly, this is the first book-length biography of the controversial and visionary head of the League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO), who made enough enemies in high places that he was subsequently frozen out of the World Health Organization, and who retaliated by making health an ongoing concern of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). It is a somewhat shortened English edition (financed by UNICEF) of Marta A. Baliska's Une vie pour l'humanitaire (1995). Baliska is Rajchman's great-granddaughter (although she never met him), and the book is a conscious tribute both to her own family and to the universalist aspirations of Poland's Jewish socialist intellectuals. She interviewed or corresponded with more than a hundred former associates of Rajchman who had encountered him in a variety of contexts; their memories and opinions, as well as his private papers, constitute the hitherto untapped source material upon which the book is based. . . .

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