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Introduction : constructing international health between the wars / Paul Weindling -- 'Custodians of the sacred fire' : the ICRC and the postwar reorganisation of the International Red Cross / John F. Hutchinson -- Red Cross organisational politics, 1918-1922 : relations of dominance and the influence of the United States / Bridget Towers -- The League of Nations Health Organisation / Martin David Dubin -- Assistance and not mere relief : the Epidemic Commission of the League of Nations, 1920-1923 / Marta Aleksandra Balińska -- Wireless wars in the eastern arena : epidemiological surveillance : disease prevention and the work of the Eastern Bureau of the League of Nations Health Organisation, 1925-1942 / Lenore Manderson -- Social medicine at the League of Nations Health Organisation and the International Labour Office compared / Paul Weindling -- The Social Section and Advisory Committee on Social Questions of the League of Nations / Carol Miller -- 'Uncramping child life ' : international children's organisations, 1914-1939 / Patricia T. Rooke and Rudy L. Schnell -- The International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation : the Russell years, 1920-1934 / John Farley -- The cycles of eradication : the Rockefeller Foundation and Latin American public health, 1918-1940 / Marcos Cueto -- The Pasteur Institutes between the two world wars. The transformation of the international sanitary order / Anne Marie Moulin -- Internationalising nursing education during the interwar period / Anne Marie Rafferty -- Mental hygiene as an international movement / Mathew Thomson -- Mobilising social knowledge for social welfare : intermediary institutions in the political systems of the United States and Great Britain between the First and Second World Wars / Martin Bulmer.

This is a collection of original studies on the new international health and welfare organisations between the First and the Second World Wars. The diversity of such organisations and their many-sided activities make this a rich and complex area of historical investigation which has direct relevance to current issues in international health. Multilateral organisations such as the League of Nations and a variety of types of non-governmental organisations are discussed. The role of scientific and professional factors, as well as the priorities of women's employment, eugenics and pronatalism are also considered. Together, the various chapters present a cohesive and integrated view of a hitherto neglected area of study. The book also complements comparative studies of welfare states by emphasising the importance of international interactions between expert groups in a broader political and social context.