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Comparative/World

John Farley. To Cast Out Disease: A History of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913–1951). New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 323. $ 49.95.

Early in the twentieth century, the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation emerged as the leading institution dedicated to advancing health internationally. In seeking to rehabilitate the Rockefeller name—long associated with excessive wealth and unbridled power—through humanitarian intervention, the foundation unleashed the ambitions of modern American medical science. From its modest origins in the 1909 Sanitary Commission, the directors or "medical barons" of the Health Division embarked on a sustained effort to "cast out disease" in the world. Researchers based in New York and in the field conducted campaigns against hookworm in the southern United States, British Guiana, India, and Ceylon; tuberculosis in France and Baltimore; yellow fever in Argentina and Brazil; and malaria in Mississippi and Arkansas, Italy and Sardinia, Bombay and Madras.

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