The End of a Global Pox
America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era
Bob H. Reinhardt
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/2015
Pages: 288
Subject: Medical, History, Science
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469624105
DESCRIPTION
Unlike other works that have chronicled the fight against smallpox by offering a "biography" of the disease or employing a triumphalist narrative of a public health victory, The End of a Global Pox examines the eradication program as a complex exercise of American power. Reinhardt draws on methods from environmental, medical, and political history to interpret the global eradication effort as an extension of U.S. technological, medical, and political power. This book demonstrates the far-reaching manifestations of American liberalism and Cold War ideology and sheds new light on the history of global public health and development.