Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War

By Farley, John

Subjects: Administrateurs de services de santé, Coopération internationale, Biography, World Health, Organisation mondiale de la santé, Biographies, Warfare, International Cooperation, Public health laws, international, World Health Organization, Health Services, Guerre froide, Global Health, Histoire, Public Health, Cold war, Cold War, History, 20th Century, International cooperation, Santé mondiale, Administrative Personnel, Public health, Santé publique, War, Canada, biography, History, Health services administration, World health organization, Health services administrators, Weltgesundheitsorganisation, World health

Description: "This is the story of a man and an institution. Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century. A world-renowned psychiatrist, he was the first director-general of the World Health Organization, and built it up against overwhelming political odds in the years immediately following the Second World War." "During Chisholm's lifetime, the only other Canadians as internationally prominent were Lester B. Pearson and Marshall McLuhan. Yet today he has been largely forgotten - perhaps because he was so controversial. An atheist and a fierce critic of jingoistic nationalism, he supported world peace and world government and became a champion of the United Nations and the WHO."--BOOK JACKET.