Thinking Internationally, Acting Locally: Soviet Public Health as Cultural Diplomacy in the 1920s

Solomon, Susan Gross

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-44171-9_9

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“…The interwar period also provided a space for the growth of new forms of internationalism, notably in the Soviet Union and its allies. In the 1920s, the USSR's Commissariat of Public Health used its Bureau of Foreign Information to seek global endorsement of its health systems, which—like schemes of social medicine—took as a fundamental principle the significance of social factors in influencing health (Solomon, 2017, p. 194). As in Western Europe, connections existed between imperial expansion and medical hegemony: a study of Kazakhstan suggests that in central Asia, the USSR used biomedicine to entrench imperial power, facilitate economic exploitation, and erode local social structures and medical traditions (Michaels, 2003).…”

Section: The Rise Of Social Medicine In the Interwar Periodmentioning

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Health for all?: Histories of international and global health

Brazelton

2021

History Compass

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This essay presents a survey of recent work in the history of international and global health from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. It considers longstanding narratives alongside recent studies that have deployed approaches consonant with scholarship in the emerging global history of science and medicine. The cumulative impact of this work is to show how the history of international health has long been embedded in colonial landscapes of power, even as it also fostered revolutionary nationalism and grew from anti-colonial socialist internationalism; and how the absence, as well as presence, of intervention has shaped understandings of global health in recent decades.

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Section: The Rise Of Social Medicine In the Interwar Periodmentioning

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Health for all?: Histories of international and global health

Brazelton

2021

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Health for all? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare

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Muinde²,

Prince³

2023

Social Science & Medicine

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China in Global Health

Brazelton¹

2022

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Mary Brazelton argues that the territories and peoples associated with China have played vital roles in the emergence of modern international health. In the early twentieth century, repeated epidemic outbreaks in China justified interventions by transnational organizations; these projects shaped strategies for international health. China has also served as a space of creativity and reinvention, in which administrators developed new models of health care during decades of war and revolution, even as traditional practitioners presented alternatives to Western biomedicine. The 1949 establishment of the People's Republic of China introduced a new era of socialist internationalism, as well as new initiatives to establish connections across the non-aligned world using medical diplomacy. After 1978, the post-socialist transition gave rise to new configurations of health governance. The rich and varied history of Chinese involvement in global health offers a means to make sense of present-day crises.

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Thinking Internationally, Acting Locally: Soviet Public Health as Cultural Diplomacy in the 1920s

Cited by 21 publications

References 3 publications

Health for all?: Histories of international and global health

Health for all?: Histories of international and global health

Health for all? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare

China in Global Health

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