IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ess/wpaper/id2989.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Beyond Philanthrophy: The Rockefeller Foundation's Public Health Intervention in Thiruvithamkoor

Author

Listed:
  • M. Kabir

Abstract

This paper examines the public health intervention of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the major ‘philanthropic’ organisations in the world during the twentieth century, in the erstwhile princely state of Thiruvithamkoor, which currently constitutes a part of Kerala state in India. It discusses the specific historical context of the intervention, the methods of intervention and their outcomes. [Working Paper No. 350]

Suggested Citation

  • M. Kabir, 2010. "Beyond Philanthrophy: The Rockefeller Foundation's Public Health Intervention in Thiruvithamkoor," Working Papers id:2989, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2989
    Note: Institutional Papers
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.esocialsciences.org/Download/repecDownload.aspx?fname=Document17102010290.1079218.pdf&fcategory=Articles&AId=2989&fref=repec
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Rockefeller Foundation; public health; Thiruvithamkoor;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2989. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Padma Prakash (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.esocialsciences.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.