Health as a public utility-local plague responses in the Christian & Islamic worlds -- Cholera, colonialism, and class -- Controlling the colonized & female bodies-VD containment, eugenics, & experimentation in metropole & colony -- "Civilizing" addiction-from local to global inequalities in the standardization of opium controls -- The global AIDS crisis-stigma, patronage, and dependency networks.
Summary:
"A higher education history textbook that focuses on public health in world history. This is part of the Roots of Contemporary Issues series"-- Provided by publisher.
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