2011
DOI: 10.1590/s1413-81232011000200012
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Abstract: In mid-April of 1958 the Government of Pakistan summoned the press to announce a grave need for international aid to cope with smallpox and cholera epidemics in East Pakistan. In response, and with the backing of the US State Department, Dr. Alexander D. Langmuir, chief epidemiologist of the CDC, led a team of epidemiologists to assist authorities in Dacca strengthen their immunization programs. Langmuir's superiors hoped for a Cold War advantage, but he saw an opportunity for trainees in the Epidemic Intellig… Show more

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“…17 Paul Greenough has given us an original and wellresearched study of CDC officials working on smallpox epidemiology in East Pakistan in the late 1950s and early 1960s. However, this scholarship does not contain an assessment of how data collected from these initiatives connected to the work of WHO representatives given the responsibility for mobilising support for the newly launched SEP. 18 An attendant historiographical narrative fuels the exclusionary approaches to the history of the SEP. A well-established body of scholarship has continued to favour what is best labelled a stepby-step approach to the study of international programmes involving the WHO, which is generally presumed to be equivalent to its Geneva-based HQ. This work promotes the argument that one campaign followed another, with minimal or no overlap; so, in such narratives, malaria eradication came first, followed by the fight against smallpox and that this was then succeeded by the advocacy of primary health care.…”
Section: Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Carlos Eduardo D'avila Pereira Campanimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…17 Paul Greenough has given us an original and wellresearched study of CDC officials working on smallpox epidemiology in East Pakistan in the late 1950s and early 1960s. However, this scholarship does not contain an assessment of how data collected from these initiatives connected to the work of WHO representatives given the responsibility for mobilising support for the newly launched SEP. 18 An attendant historiographical narrative fuels the exclusionary approaches to the history of the SEP. A well-established body of scholarship has continued to favour what is best labelled a stepby-step approach to the study of international programmes involving the WHO, which is generally presumed to be equivalent to its Geneva-based HQ. This work promotes the argument that one campaign followed another, with minimal or no overlap; so, in such narratives, malaria eradication came first, followed by the fight against smallpox and that this was then succeeded by the advocacy of primary health care.…”
Section: Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Carlos Eduardo D'avila Pereira Campanimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…4 O PEV contou com apoio e financiamento de inúmeras agências de cooperação para o desenvolvimento, e dos dois polos da Guerra Fria: Estados Unidos e União Soviética (Manela, 2010) (Henderson, 2009). O CDC, originalmente com atribuições de vigilância epidemiológica interna, tornou-se, no contexto da Guerra Fria, um agente da política estadunidense na América Latina, no Caribe e na Ásia (Etheridge, 1992;Greenough, 2011;Reinhardt, 2015). Apesar da polaridade geopolítica, a meta de erradicação da varíola produziu uma "disputa cooperativa", uma vez que, por meio de um programa global de saúde, acreditava-se que o conhecimento científico e as tecnologias médicas poderiam fortalecer, para alguns, os princípios do liberalismo democrático e, para outros, os do socialismo (Reinhardt, 2015;Stepan, 2011).…”
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