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Josep L. Barona publishes a book with his studies on health policies in Europe
- Press Office
- July 26th, 2018
Detail of the book cover
Josep L. Barona, full professor of History of Science and head of the research group Sanhisoc/Health in Society, has published the book ‘Health policies in Interwar Europe. A Transnational Perspective’ in Routledge, the prestigious British publishers and international benchmark of Social Sciences and History. The book shows his last researches in the field of health policies in Europe during the first half of the 20th century and the instruction of experts in public health.
Written with a transnational perspective, the book shows the organisation model of the national institutes of hygiene and the national schools of health in France, the UK, Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Spain among other European countries. It also considers the networks of actors, the connexion and circulation of knowledge, the intervention strategies, the technologies, artefacts and health practices in connexion with the significant international referents, especially the Rockefeller Foundation and the Health Organisation of the Leage of Nations.
The book is the result of the ‘Políticas de Salud en la Europa del siglo XX’ research project, sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Innovation (2014-2017)
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