Rockefeller Foundation, Public Health and International Diplomacy, 1920–1945

Josep L Barona is professor of the history of science at the University of Valencia. He has taught courses on the history of medicine and the history of biological thinking as part of medicine and biology degrees. His research interests cover health and sanitation in rural areas in contemporary Spain and Europe, nutrition, hunger and health: the political economy of scientific knowledge, and scientific exile and the Spanish Civil War.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 International Diplomacy Meets Public Health; Chapter 2 The First Great Intervention: Epidemics and Famine in Eastern Europe; Chapter 3 The Extension of the Collaborative Programme; Chapter 4 International Health and the End of the League of Nations: Gautier’s Evaluation; Chapter 5 Some General Conclusions;