Our contributions examine the Norwegian Karl Evang's (1901-1981) and the Dane Halfdan Mahler&... more Our contributions examine the Norwegian Karl Evang's (1901-1981) and the Dane Halfdan Mahler's (1923-2016) participation in international health co-operation facilitated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in India in the 1950s. While Evang’s was a hectic, but relatively short visit as part of a WHO visiting team of medical scientists in 1953, Mahler’s spanned the entire decade on assignments as WHO medical officer to tuberculosis control projects. Mahler’s name should be familiar to researchers of international health as the Director-General of the WHO 1973-88, and for his promotion of primary health care through the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration. Evang, Norway’s Director of Health 1938-72, was also a key figure in international health in the mid-twentieth century as one of the original instigators of the WHO, and a participant in much of its early work.A core theme is the place of social medicine, both in Evang’s and Mahler’s work, and within the WHO and its navigation of c...
Artiklen analyserer aspekter af den nyere brug af modernitetsbegrebet inden for sociologi, antrop... more Artiklen analyserer aspekter af den nyere brug af modernitetsbegrebet inden for sociologi, antropologi og historie med henblik pa en diskussion af dets potentialer i historiefaglige analyser. Artiklens omdrejningspunktet er kritikken af modernitetsbegrebet som en eurocentrisk, analytisk kategori og de deraf folgende forsog pa at overkomme denne begraensning gennem en pluralisering af modernitetskategorien. Artiklen analyserer her konsekvenserne af Frederick Coopers indflydelsesrige forslag om at tilga modernitet som aktorkategori. Gennem en laesning af en raekke vaerker, der har forholdt sig til eller er under indflydelse af denne analysestrategi, konkluderes, at aktortilgangen er et frugtbart udgangspunkt for historiefaglige analyser under forudsaetning af, at empirisk funderede diskursive analyser samtidigt inddrager sociale og politiske kontekster. Denne tilgang muliggor en kobling mellem studier af modernitetsforestillinger og moderniseringsbestraebelser.
Svar til Thorkild Kjaergaard i debat om kolonibegrebet og H.C. Gullov, Poul Olsen og Niels Brimne... more Svar til Thorkild Kjaergaard i debat om kolonibegrebet og H.C. Gullov, Poul Olsen og Niels Brimnes (red.): Danmark og kolonierne. Gads Forlag. 2017.
Our contributions examine the Norwegian Karl Evang's (1901-1981) and the Dane Halfdan Mahler&... more Our contributions examine the Norwegian Karl Evang's (1901-1981) and the Dane Halfdan Mahler's (1923-2016) participation in international health co-operation facilitated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in India in the 1950s. While Evang’s was a hectic, but relatively short visit as part of a WHO visiting team of medical scientists in 1953, Mahler’s spanned the entire decade on assignments as WHO medical officer to tuberculosis control projects. Mahler’s name should be familiar to researchers of international health as the Director-General of the WHO 1973-88, and for his promotion of primary health care through the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration. Evang, Norway’s Director of Health 1938-72, was also a key figure in international health in the mid-twentieth century as one of the original instigators of the WHO, and a participant in much of its early work.A core theme is the place of social medicine, both in Evang’s and Mahler’s work, and within the WHO and its navigation of c...
Artiklen analyserer aspekter af den nyere brug af modernitetsbegrebet inden for sociologi, antrop... more Artiklen analyserer aspekter af den nyere brug af modernitetsbegrebet inden for sociologi, antropologi og historie med henblik pa en diskussion af dets potentialer i historiefaglige analyser. Artiklens omdrejningspunktet er kritikken af modernitetsbegrebet som en eurocentrisk, analytisk kategori og de deraf folgende forsog pa at overkomme denne begraensning gennem en pluralisering af modernitetskategorien. Artiklen analyserer her konsekvenserne af Frederick Coopers indflydelsesrige forslag om at tilga modernitet som aktorkategori. Gennem en laesning af en raekke vaerker, der har forholdt sig til eller er under indflydelse af denne analysestrategi, konkluderes, at aktortilgangen er et frugtbart udgangspunkt for historiefaglige analyser under forudsaetning af, at empirisk funderede diskursive analyser samtidigt inddrager sociale og politiske kontekster. Denne tilgang muliggor en kobling mellem studier af modernitetsforestillinger og moderniseringsbestraebelser.
Svar til Thorkild Kjaergaard i debat om kolonibegrebet og H.C. Gullov, Poul Olsen og Niels Brimne... more Svar til Thorkild Kjaergaard i debat om kolonibegrebet og H.C. Gullov, Poul Olsen og Niels Brimnes (red.): Danmark og kolonierne. Gads Forlag. 2017.
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