Author: Feldbaum, Harley; Lee, Kelley; Michaud, Joshua
Title: Global Health and Foreign Policy Document date: 2010_4_27
ID: 1cpvboto_50
Snippet: King writes that ''although often characterized as an humanitarian activity, modern public health as practiced in the United States and other Western industrialized nations has long been associated with the needs of national security and international commerce'' (117, p. 763) . For example, the founding of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine by Sir Patrick Manson, medical advisor to the Colonial Office (118) , was driven by the nee.....
Document: King writes that ''although often characterized as an humanitarian activity, modern public health as practiced in the United States and other Western industrialized nations has long been associated with the needs of national security and international commerce'' (117, p. 763) . For example, the founding of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine by Sir Patrick Manson, medical advisor to the Colonial Office (118) , was driven by the need to better understand tropical diseases to assure ''the health of European soldiers, traders and settlers in hostile climates'' (117, p. 765) . Similarly, the US successes against malaria and yellow fever, which enabled the building of the Panama Canal, were driven by the desire to control this strategic and economically valuable passage (119, 120) .
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