Influence subie, influence exercée. L’Europe centrale et la santé publique dans l’entre-deux-guerres

Far from having been neglected, the young countries in eastern Europe were both a constant driving force in the League of Nations? Hygiene Organization and, too, a base of operations for big private philanthropies (with the Rockefeller Foundation in the lead). The schools and institutes of hygiene in Danubian Europe operated under the influence of America, but the accomplishments of their ?returned fellows? placed them in the limelight and in a position to exercise influence. Regardless of how backward it might have seemed, this region of the continent gradually found its voice owing to the process of ?translation/naturalization? that, by making what came from the outside appear to be a native product, made these exemplary accomplishments exportable, all the way to China. From ?sanitary police? to ?social medicine,? this other Europe laid the ideological basis for the nascent WHO : the revival of rural areas.